Session time / duration?

Need help
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Does anyone have a clean way to capture the duration of a user’s session?

Trying to capture this in a “session” data type with the following:

  • user
  • startTime
  • endTime
  • numActions

Or is this a job for Google Analytics?

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As in how long someone was logged in for?

if so you might want to give the plugin effactive a try. or you can also use your start and end field as “Dates” data types. when a user loads the page you enter the time. and as long as they have the page active you update the end time every x sec/mins

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Thanks - seems like a relatively simple way to accomplish this.

For anyone else wondering this, I ended up using the Google Analytics 4 plugin to capture this data as well as some custom events. Really simple implementation and gives all of the engagement, growth, & retention metrics I needed.

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I was skimming over some info on google analytics. but how is it data wise. i assume it has to be constantly be feeding data to their servers.

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It’s pretty lightweight AFAIK (no heavy data passing back and forth) and you can control the events. I doubt users would see a substantial jump in data usage for your app if that’s the concern, but it would be somewhat dependent on the events you implement.

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For anyone looking for the exact plugin, here’s the link:

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