8e6 Technologies ER manual Elapsed Time Rules

ADMINISTRATOR SECTION CHAPTER 2: CONFIGURING THE ER SERVER

Elapsed Time Rules

Each time a user on the network accesses a Web site, this activity is logged as one or more visit(s) to that site. The amount of time a user spends on that site and the number of times he/she accesses that site is tracked according to the following rules:

•A user will be logged as having visited a Web site one time if the amount of time spent on any pages at that site is equivalent to the value entered at the Elapse Time field, or less than that value.

For example, if the value entered at the Elapse Time field is 10 seconds, and if the user is at a site between one to 10 seconds—on the same page or on any other page within the same site—the user’s activity will be tracked as one visit to that Web site.

•Each time the user exceeds the value entered at the Elapse Time field, the user will be tracked as having visited the site an additional time.

For example, if the value entered at the Elapse Time field is 10 seconds and the user remains at a Web site for 12 seconds, two visits to that site will be logged for him/her.

•Each session at a Web site is tracked as one or more visit(s), depending on the duration of the session. A session is defined as a user’s activity at a site that begins when the user accesses the site and ends when the user exits the site.

For example, if the value entered at the Elapse Time field is 10 seconds and the user spends five seconds on a Web site, then exits, then returns to the same site for another 15 seconds, the user will have two sessions or three visits to that site logged for him/her (5 seconds = 1 visit, 15 seconds = 2 visits, for a total of 3 visits).

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