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Hello,

I’m currently working on an EE site that needs to have advanced user tracking.  I need to be able to tell which pages have been viewed by individual members and how long they have spent on those pages.  Is there anything “out of the box” that I have missed?  I’ve read the docs on view tracking and user tracking but nothing seems to suit.  If anyone knows of an add-on that would do the job that would be great.  If not I’ll build something myself.

Thanks.

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You could use query strings in your links to track where individual users go. So you could do something like this:

<a href="http://example.com/page?user={username}">http://example.com/page?user={username}</a>

This would then allow you to view what each individual user was doing in your analytics.

Thanks for the tip and I see how this would work.  Ideally I’d like the tracking to happen within EE so I can show progress reports to members within the site but this could be a starting point before writing a new module.

I am afraid there’s nothing built-in just like that. It would indeed have to be some custom code.

I’m not certain of how the preceding construct works.

<a href="http://example.com/page?user={username}">http://example.com/page?user={username}</a>

I’m working on log analysis myself and have a similar need.  Could someone post a fuller example and explanation behind the construct?  Is the idea that the username is ignored in executing the link, but otherwise recorded on log file entries?

If so, that would get me to where I need.

Thanks much!!  Larry A.

Hi, Larry. This thread would be a better fit for the CodeShare Corner. Moving..

If you thinking of building yourself I would you some code from here! CraftySyntax

The have chat application (stand alone) but I think you can always take it strip it and implement. It shows you current users what they looking at and clicked. what search words used and etc.

Good luck