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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by lmkg on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:26PM (#26267816)
Out-of-the-box, no. With custom work, yes. The amount of effort is not large, and there are off-the-shelf solutions available. The name commonly used is "engagement timer."

By default, GA only sends one hit on page load. If there's no second hit, there's no way to tell if someone was looking at the page for a second or a minute or an hour.

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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by hnick on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:15PM (#26271034)
How do they handle it? A keep-alive style ping, or something like a beforeunload event hook?
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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by e_y_ on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:34AM (#26271670)
In theory the correct way to send analytics when leaving the page is via navigator.sendBeacon, although it's not clear how reliable it is: https://volument.com/blog/sendbeacon-is-broken (note: read the comments for some rebuttals to the article)
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