Re: Tracking user connection times

Alex Crow <acrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:45:40 +0100



    On 20/04/15 15:34, Dan Berry wrote:

    
        I have setup a squid proxy as a POC for
          user tracking. I am looking for a way to track for close
          events, most of the customer sites that are accessed are HTTPS
          so I can’t track activity. I might be able to get by with
          tracking total connect time, so I know the windows of time
          users were connected to a specific site. Is this possible?
         
        Dan Berry
        Data Network Engineer
         
      
    I doubt it unless you are in control of the sites the users are
    visiting. When a page is loaded, the browser instructs the OS to
    open a TCP connection to download the page. When all the data has
    been downloaded, the TCP connection becomes idle and after a short
    time the OS will close it.

    
    If the sites are yours I suppose you could add some JS that would
    get the browser to repeatedly make a request to the site with a
    page-specific ID so you could track how long they were on that page.

    
    Cheers

    
    Alex

    
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