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One thing that I can't get via Google Analytics (the only one I use) is how long a person stays on one page when they "bounce" immediately. I have often though

One thing that I can't get via Google Analytics (the only one I use) is how long a person stays on one page when they "bounce" immediately. I have often thought there should be an easy way to build a little javascript ajax call that polls every 5 seconds or something, and whenever they leave - it would stop polling and you'd know they were gone. There are so many details we already have (keywords, page of entry, etc) - but the bounces frustrate me a lot. If they are bouncing after 2 seconds, that's a problem. If they are bouncing from my info page after 60 seconds, that's a totally different problem: it means they liked what they read, but I somehow couldn't entice them to stay.

jcapote 18y ago
I believe analytics shows you average time on site...
- netcan 18y ago
  I think this measure time between pageviews. IE bounces recorded as 0.
  - pedalpete 18y ago
    I don't think it is between page views. My site is a one page ajax heavy site, so I can only have analytics on the landing page. The time on page shows around a minute average (changes per day), while the bounces shows nearly 90%. Doesn't fluctuate as much. Not sure how they do these measurements. But what is really needed is a tool that can measure on ajax sites. For now i've started counting server side requests, and it really is showing how unreliable Google Analytics is.
    - netcan 18y ago
      I think that after X amount of time the page 'reloads.'
    - inerte 18y ago
      http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55519 http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... and http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55597 http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer... Doesn't work to track Ajax? I've never used but was thinking to apply for some of my projects.
nickb 18y ago
I have often thought there should be an easy way to build a little javascript ajax call that polls every 5 seconds or something, and whenever they leave - it would stop polling and you'd know they were gone. That would cause a DDoS.
- ericwaller 18y ago
  This could be done with a synchronous ajax request attached to the (nonstandard) onbeforeunload event. Something else I'd like to see is a measurement of average page load times. In practice the best you could do is time from tracking script load to dom ready and/or body load. So your numbers would be off, but still useful for spotting trends.

jcapote 18y ago

I believe analytics shows you average time on site...

netcan 18y ago
I think this measure time between pageviews. IE bounces recorded as 0.
- pedalpete 18y ago
  I don't think it is between page views. My site is a one page ajax heavy site, so I can only have analytics on the landing page. The time on page shows around a minute average (changes per day), while the bounces shows nearly 90%. Doesn't fluctuate as much. Not sure how they do these measurements. But what is really needed is a tool that can measure on ajax sites. For now i've started counting server side requests, and it really is showing how unreliable Google Analytics is.
  - netcan 18y ago
    I think that after X amount of time the page 'reloads.'
  - inerte 18y ago
    http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55519 http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... and http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55597 http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer... Doesn't work to track Ajax? I've never used but was thinking to apply for some of my projects.

nickb 18y ago

I have often thought there should be an easy way to build a little javascript ajax call that polls every 5 seconds or something, and whenever they leave - it would stop polling and you'd know they were gone. That would cause a DDoS.

ericwaller 18y ago
This could be done with a synchronous ajax request attached to the (nonstandard) onbeforeunload event. Something else I'd like to see is a measurement of average page load times. In practice the best you could do is time from tracking script load to dom ready and/or body load. So your numbers would be off, but still useful for spotting trends.