As I understand it, only event tracking has been migrated to use the beacon api so far while page views still use xhr. This is currently being tracked in #570.

That"s right, next release will tackle page visit time. It"s tricky because I need to decide whether to make a database schema change or find another way around it.

Is there any plan to prioritize this? As for proper analytics, the page visit time is pretty important.

Maybe it is possible to use the library I mentioned in the first comment.

I"ve explored tracking the visit time to see if I could contribute on this. And it isn"t particularly difficult to determine the duration on the client-side.
But, similar to what @mikecao had mentioned, the database is where I hit a wall. I couldn"t figure out how to non-destructively update the database schema and additionally keep the multiple database support.

I have a similar use case: users come to our site -> go to stream page -> sit on page for x minutes/hours -> exit

This makes our realtime stats, current stats, and session times all off

Would tracking an event with javascript on an interval (say, 3 minutes) keep this data up-to-date? Or would that possibly work for the realtime and current stats, but not session time?

I feel like this is a very important metric for a lot of users, and in its current form fundamentally flawed:

1. with times only tracked between hits, last page visit duration and single-page visitors are not tracked at all
2. visit times are polluted by inactive time

are there any plans for working on this? I feel like it deserves a lot more attention, since the current metric is not accurate at all.

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Hi. Is the metric still flawed? The visit duration looks suspiciously low for me.

Yep, experienced the same thing. I thought my website visit time was awful until I checked using another analytics software for a few weeks and saw a massive difference.

Also when looking at certain stats you can see a load with visit duration of 0s.