Web tracker item time stamped out problem

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06-23-2009, 09:56 PM
luxid

Web tracker item time stamped out problem

I am using the web tracker item to measure the length of time for specific web pages. I found one problem.

For example, I have 5 files, fmain.htm, f-1.htm, f-2.htm, f-3.htm, and f-4.htm. fmain.htm is the list of films, and f-1, f-2, f-3, and f-4 are film viewing pages. I embedded mov files on each page. Each film clip is 9 min. long. I set duration 20 min (1200 sec).

Suppose participants watch (i.e., stay) fmain (10 sec), f-1 (540 sec), f-2 (400 sec), and f-3 (500 sec). In this case, MediaLab proceed to next sequence while participants stay at f-3 at the point of 350 sec passed.

Because participants did not click out of f-3.htm, MediaLab does not time-stamp for the f-3. The file name and the length of f-3 are not recorded. This is a problem because I cannot know whether users watch films at f-3 or at other pages (e.g., f-4).

How can I make MediaLab recognize the last web page?
07-06-2009, 02:36 PM
jarvis24

Perhaps by using the timestamp feature on the subsequent item? This would give you a way to calculate the time spent on the final htm page--but would not give you the URL--would that be sufficient or do you also need that URL?

See [I]timestamp[/I] ([I]@[/I]) parameter in user's guide or online here:
[URL]http://www.empirisoft.com/medialab/help/queparameters.htm[/URL]
07-06-2009, 02:50 PM
luxid

Yes, I also need that URL.

Thanks for the help. Yes, I also need that URL. What I need is the duration of stay for specific pages.
07-07-2009, 08:30 AM
jarvis24

What if you added an auto-redirect after [I]n[/I] seconds on the final page, such that it would redirect to some other page indicating that it had been displayed for that period of time. The redirect would be contained in the data file but only if it had been displayed for the full [I]n[/I] seconds.
e.g.,
[CODE]<head>
...head section stuff (Title, Description,etc.)...
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120;url=pagename.html">
</head>[/CODE]
07-07-2009, 09:57 AM
luxid

that's a good idea but...

.. the problem is that I don't know which page will be the final pages. fmain.htm is the top level page that list other 4 pages from f_1.htm to f_4.htm. For 30 minutes that I set, users freely browse through these pages. Any of 5 pages can be a final page.