| ▲ | Hnrobert42 5 days ago | |
Could you send the beacon every five minutes? When the beacon stops coming in for 30 minutes assume that the tab closed or the user went off-line. | ||
| ▲ | ivanjermakov 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> every five minutes This is tricky in JavaScript, because timers are asleep/throttled in inactive tabs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setT... And if onbeforeleave analytics is not evil, doing stuff in inactive tabs is certainly is. | ||
| ▲ | hoppp 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You could just have a websocket open then. But its unreliable because if the user's internet cuts out maybe they still on the tab, so watching websocket disconnect is not perfect either | ||