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philipwalton avatar philipwalton commented on June 9, 2024

Thanks @igrigorik, I'll look into this.

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chaffeqa avatar chaffeqa commented on June 9, 2024

We've been doing this for all our SAP apps for google analytics.
(mainly based on your article @igrigorik ;)

We wrote a little service for it:

var
  VisibilityStates = {
    prerender: 'prerender'
    ,visible: 'visible'
    ,hidden: 'hidden'
  }
  ,VisibilityState = VisibilityStates.visible // dont want to deal with prerender
  ,visibilityCallbacks = {
    visible: []
    ,hidden: []
  }
;
function onForeground(event) {
  processVisibilityChange('visible', event)
}
function onBackground(event) {
  processVisibilityChange('hidden', event)
}
function onVisibilityChange(event) {
  processVisibilityChange(document.visibilityState, event)
}
function processVisibilityChange(newState, event) {
  // console.log("VisibilityState: " + VisibilityState + ' -> ' + VisibilityStates[newState], event)
  // ignore prerender
  if (newState == 'prerender') return;
  // ignore unless changed
  if (VisibilityState == VisibilityStates[newState]) return;
  // fire callbacks
  VisibilityState = VisibilityStates[newState];
  var i, cbs = visibilityCallbacks[newState];
  for (i = 0; i < cbs.length; i++) { cbs[i].call(event) }
}
window.addEventListener("beforeunload", onBackground, false);
window.addEventListener("pagehide", onBackground, false);
window.addEventListener("pageshow", onForeground, false);
if (document.visibilityState) document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", onVisibilityChange, false);

So for GA, we would write:

visibilityCallbacks.visible.push(function(){
  ga('set', 'page', window.location.href);
  ga('send', 'pageview');
});

Obviously you can trim down on the service part, but I'm lazy.

I love that you guys are doing this, finally dont have to write our own custom SAP ga integration on every project 🎉

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philipwalton avatar philipwalton commented on June 9, 2024

Thanks @chaffeqa, there's a pageVisibility tracker implementation in the 1.0 branch. In addition to tracking visibilitychange events, it also tracks how long the user spent in each state, and it more gracefully handles session timeouts so you don't end up with a bunch of sessions that only contain visibilitychange events.

You can follow the progress of 1.0 in PR #67.

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igrigorik avatar igrigorik commented on June 9, 2024

@chaffeqa nice, great work!

@philipwalton fwiw, it'd be great to have a writeup on the findings in your experiments.. to explain and motivate why folks should be using the visibility approach (within GA and other products). Perhaps something we can collaborate on post I/O?

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philipwalton avatar philipwalton commented on June 9, 2024

Fixed via 911e9f7.

@igrigorik agreed, now that 1.0 is out, I'll try to put something together promoting the new model.

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