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I am looking to build a learning management site with EE with a set of courses. Currently, the courses are hosted with an older learning management system that we have outgrown. One of the features that this older LMS has is the ability to track how much time users spend on each page of the course, so the instructor can monitor enrollees that might be struggling with the certain parts of the content.

Does anyone know of a module or some other way to track how much time users that are logged in spend on each page of an EE site, and maybe even how the navigate the site?

Thanks
Susan

I don’t know if EE tracks internally those values and I don’t think there is a module you can buy to achieve this. Maybe a simpler solution (not as nicley integrated) would be to use a third party software that analyze the site traffic. I am not aware of your budget and/or resources, but building an add-on for this purpose would probably end to be an onerous task.

I’m looking at Mint’s analytics now to see if that will help me. It appears to have add-ons that will track individual users by ipaddress, plus an EE extension that will store the user names. So it sounds promising. I’d be interested to know if anyone has experience using this combination successfully.

Any luck with this?  I am interested in doing the same thing for a learning management site.

I haven’t gotten to implementing this part of the project yet, but I posted a question on the Mint website about whether I would be able to view detailed tracking information, and did not get a response. I may still try it, but I found another analytics site where I was able to test this function and it looked like it works well for my purposes.
http://www.w3counter.com/
Chances are this is the one I will use. After posting the W3Counter code on a few EE pages, I was able to follow in real time a test user by logging into the W3C website.

It would be great for me if it could be reported directly in EE, but I don’t think I can do that.

If you find anything better, I’d love to hear about it.
Susan

Thanks, Susan!  I just downloaded mint to play around with a bit.  I’ll let you know if I get it working.

Have you thought about Google Analytics + the CP Analytics add on? 

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/cp-analytics

I thought that Google didn’t allow the tracking of individual visitors. Am I wrong?

Susan

Ahh, I misunderstood.  I’m not sure on the individual visitors, I thought you meant individual pages…

Ok.  Using Mint, Secret Crush, and Mint Nametag I was able to do what I needed to do, which is log site activity and time on site per user.

Here are some links to pages that helped me so far:

Installing Mint on Expression Engine
http://haveamint.com/forum/troubleshooting/4/configuring_mint_for_expression_engine

SECRET CRUSH: Mint plug-in that tracks individual users
http://haveamint.com/peppermill/pepper/10/secret_crush/

MINT_NAMETAG: ee2 add-on that passes username to secret crush
http://simon.job.id.au/articles/mint-nametag-for-ee-2

Now I have to figure out how to get that log information back into ee to display via a members list page.  Any ideas? I use solspace’s User module if that helps.  There seems to be a feed per user so i’ll check that out too.

Since Mint data is all stored in the MYSQL database you can do a query to get the results back into an ee template.  This is an example of the query I’m going to use below on a members individual profile page:

{exp:query sql="SELECT dt FROM mint_visit WHERE visitor_name = '{username}'"}

{dt format="%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s"}

{/exp:query}

This outputs a list of times.  Does anyone know a way to total all those times so i can just show total time spent on site instead of individual pages?

Time on site is not the most accurate web metric, it really just tracks the time between pages, but can’t track time spent on the last page of a session

more information at the link below..

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/standard-metrics-revisited-time-on-page-and-time-on-site/