Calculating time spent on a page
Problem
You want to calculate how long someone has spent on a certain page.
Solution
There are two possibilities:
Discussion
The first approach works well if you need only a few time counters or if you need to make reference to the time value within the questionnaire (e.g., to remind the respondent to take their time if they appear to be speeding through the questionnaire). It consists of adding two computed questions:
The second approach uses BASEclicks. Once the BASEclick project is compiled and available, CallWeb systematically stores the time when each page is shown in each project which include the "# BASEclicks = yes" instruction; CallWeb also stores the time lapsed since the previous entry for a given IP address in a given project. The data in the BASEclicks project can be analyzed using any and all of the existing CallWeb utility programs. Beware of the fact that this project grows quite rapidly to many thousands of records on a busy server.