[squid-users] Calculate time spent on website (per ip address)

[Yuri Voinov]

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I forgot about one thing ;)

HTTP is stateless protocol (in most cases, excluding presistant
connections). So, it is impossible to determine how much time user
spent on site. Only very approximately. Right?

11.02.15 4:16, Amos Jeffries пишет:
> On 11/02/2015 10:50 a.m., Luis Miguel Silva wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I was wondering if there is a built in feature in Squid to
>> calculate the time spent on a website, per ip address (e.g. 32
>> minutes between 12pm and 1pm, 5 minutes between 1pm and 2pm)?
>> And, if not, how would you do it?
>> 
> 
> No there is nothing built-in. The whole concept of "website" and
> "page" is an abstract concept that only really exists in peoples
> heads, with some browser participation. It simply does not exist at
> lower levels than the browser.
> 
> Some of the Squid helpers (for auth, session, quota) use a scaling 
> window of time between transactions to estimate whether any two
> requests are from the same end-user. But even that does not really
> match up well to "website" or "page" concepts.
> 
> 
>> I immediately thought about using the log files for this BUT,
>> because we only log individual connections, how would you guys
>> conclude the amount of time spent per website? Would you, for
>> instance, for each 5 minutes, add 5 minute chunks IF there was
>> data flowing between the 5 minutes?
> 
> There is an entire field of research called Usability seeking to
> answer that question for decades now. Its up to you.
> 
>> 
>> That would work but...Isn't there a more elegant way of doing
>> this?
> 
> Look at it from another angle. What are you trying to get out of
> all this monitoring? What is the actual purpose of it?
> 
> Amos
> 
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