Web Page Bounce Rate

Hi All

I a wondering if there is a way to measure the bounce rate (time spent on a web page before exit) for a web page using a PHP script.

I know there is Google Analytics and all that, but what I am looking for is something that will give me an idea of the bounce rate.

I can detect the instant a visitor accesses my web page.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks

With PHP, no. The only thing you can do with PHP in this scenario is log anything coming from the browser to a file/database.

Now, if you want to mess with say, Apache modules and C programming, you might be able to play around with using abnormally long Keep-Alive requests and logging when a client disconnects. This probably wouldn't be feasible on a large scale, but it should be fairly accurate.

I'm not sure where to suggest starting on something like that though. I'd just stick with Google Analytics and be done with it.

thanks for the reply

How about something like a timer using php
Starts when visitor lands on a page.
Stops when exits, no matter how he exists

From what I recall, PHP has no function to check when a visitor closes a page. Maybe some jQuery with an ajax call to store the time could work.

The best you could probably do with PHP is to measure the time between page requests and check the referal. If the referrer is your own site then the time between pages would be the time spent on your site. This approch does not work for single visits or the last requested page.

Well, there's this where you could track the time by keeping visitors in an endless loading state. I just want to make it clear I think it's a bad idea though.