checking visitor stay duration on site? how?

[Job]

Hi,

I would like to check how long a visitor stays on my (flash)site.
I can start a timer with: starttime = getTimer(), then endtime =
getTimer() and the visit duration then being: endtime-starttime

But how can I check if the site is closed, and still send the 'endtime'
to my database? Is there something like onUnload/onQuit? Or some equivalent?

Or does anybody have another tip for doing this?

Or do I need to do something with javascript and the html-page the site
is on?

Thanks,

Job

[Martin Voegeli, vom]

> I would like to check how long a visitor stays on my (flash)site.

> I can start a timer with: starttime = getTimer(), then endtime =
> getTimer() and the visit duration then being: endtime-starttime
>
> But how can I check if the site is closed, and still send the
> 'endtime' to my database? Is there something like onUnload/onQuit?
> Or some equivalent?
>
> Or does anybody have another tip for doing this?
>
> Or do I need to do something with javascript and the html-page the
> site is on?
>
> Thanks, Job

My proposal would be a combination of ActionScript and JavaScript:
[url]http://birdy1976.com/2003/onunload-and-flash-to-javascript.html[/url]

Some more information about this example:
http://groups.google.ch/groups?threadm=yi9ga.20$EO7.452629@newsserver.ip.p t

Best wishes, Martin ;) * [url]http://birdy1976.com/[/url] * ICQ# 237743398