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Script to improve Visit Duration reporting in Google Analytics
7 years 7 months ago #345
by adam.bennett
Script to improve Visit Duration reporting in Google Analytics was created by adam.bennett
Found this little gold nugget the other day and thought I'd share
Add this script right before thetag in your sites html
What is does is it 'pings' google every 10 seconds that a visitor is on your page to let google know that someone is still there. If a visitor doesn't click to view another page, google automatically counts that as an exit after a short amount of time. Our visitors tend to spend a LOT of time in the designer trying to accomplish what they're after. This is very valuable in the instance that someone get and email from your site with a link to the designer. If they open that link and stay in the designer for over 2 minutes without clicking to view another page, google will view that as a bounce. Not with this script though
Google looks at your average visit duration and bounce rate as factors for your Ranking in search results- you might as well get credit for every SECOND that a user is on your site
Script:
Happy Selling
Adam
Add this script right before the
</body>What is does is it 'pings' google every 10 seconds that a visitor is on your page to let google know that someone is still there. If a visitor doesn't click to view another page, google automatically counts that as an exit after a short amount of time. Our visitors tend to spend a LOT of time in the designer trying to accomplish what they're after. This is very valuable in the instance that someone get and email from your site with a link to the designer. If they open that link and stay in the designer for over 2 minutes without clicking to view another page, google will view that as a bounce. Not with this script though
Google looks at your average visit duration and bounce rate as factors for your Ranking in search results- you might as well get credit for every SECOND that a user is on your site
Script:
<script type="text/javascript">
(function (tos) {
window.setInterval(function () {
tos = (function (t) {
return t[0] == 50 ? (parseInt(t[1]) + 1) + ':00' : (t[1] || '0') + ':' + (parseInt(t[0]) + 10);
})(tos.split(':').reverse());
window.pageTracker ? pageTracker._trackEvent('Time', 'Log', tos) : _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Time', 'Log', tos]);
}, 10000);
})('00');
</script>Happy Selling
Adam
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7 years 6 months ago #371
by brenden
Cheers,
Senior Product Manager
Wilcom - Sydney, Australia
Cheers,
Senior Product Manager
Wilcom - Sydney, Australia
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