[ARCHIVED] Calculating site usage metrics like PageViews, Average Time on Page etc.

[zeeshan_zuberi]

Hi,

Has anyone utilized requests table to calculate basic site usage metrics like the ones available with Google Analytics? I've created a basic set of visualizations showing number of requests made over time & most accessed courses however I wonder if anyone had used summing up requests and used that number as pageviews and dividing that number by distinct user Ids to get average page views per user etc. Are there any fields through which we can calculate average time on page for a URL?

Many thanks.

Zeeshan.

[msmith]

"Time on page" is a common request, but unfortunately something that did not make the cut for v1.   You could approximate this by grouping events by user analyzing the time periods between the requests.  This feature is at the top of our list for future versions.

[zeeshan_zuberi]

Thanks for the update Matt.

I'll look into how to get time on page through grouping the requests and see what we get.

[lknott]

I would like to add my +1 for adding the time on page or time a student spends in a course! Deactivated user​ do you have any kind of speculated timeline for when this feature may be added?

[msmith · Accepted solution]

lkushma​ the work is not planned currently, but it is one of the most requested features that did not make the cut, so I would guess sometime soon after v1 releases in the fall.   Sorry I can't give a better estimate.   Deactivated user​ might have more specific comments on this.

[lfeng]

yes lkushma​ we have this on our iist for after v1.  I am planning to publish the roadmap with more detail about what we are working on for v1 - as welll as proposed features that are on our post-v1 list.