Tracking User Time on Landing Pages Without Page Exit Events

Hello everyone! I need help with a topic: I need to identify the time a user spends on our landing pages. I saw in this article https://muffaddal-qutbuddin.medium.com/track-average-time-on-page-in-mixpanel-c80cbb52be99 that we can use the mixpanel.time_event method, but I have a question: Can I do this without necessarily triggering the page exit event? I ask because I don't want to generate another high-volume event.

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Santi (.
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you can track an initial event on the page and then use funnels to calculate average time between pages., We do have a track_pageview option that would do this automatically: https://docs.mixpanel.com/docs/tracking-methods/sdks/javascript#tracking-page-views You will be able to build a funnel with step1 one page and step2 another page, and it will give you the average time between both
Matheus N.
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That's one way, but how could I measure from people who only have one pageview?
Santi (.
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then it's not possible, you need to rely on 2 events to calculate the difference between first event and second event
Santi (.
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that is what time_event() helps with, it stores the timestamp when you call time_event and adds the duration when you actually track it, so it's giving you duration between 2 timestamps
Santi (.
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on mobile, you can detect when a user leaves your app/screen so it's easier, and our sdks track duration using App Session event so you know exactly the time spent by the user on the app
Santi (.
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on web, it's more challenging, you would need to find a way to detect when the user leaves the page and track a second event or use time_event()
Santi (.
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you could use beforeunload in JS but that is not reliable
Matheus N.
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I can track when the user leaves the page, the point is that I didn't want to have another event of this type being triggered, as it will be an event with a high volume, impacting contract values. Anyway, I'll evaluate the possibilities, thanks for the clarification!

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