Reliably track a visitor's time spent playing music

bash_bob

First of all, I understand pre-optimization is the root of all evil (and I have a nasty tendency of falling into that trap). However, I feel I must think this through, because the implications of taking a wrong approach can result in a lengthy rewrite of the code. How can I reliably track a visitor's time spent listening to music through the page's audio player? I'm using jPlayer on my website to serve audio content. I want to reward my users...

Originally asked by Marc Dingena on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I know this question is really old ... but for anyone stumbling across this: Google has a limit as to how many hits per session they allow. As of today (march 2021) the limit is still 500 hits per session. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/limits-quotas So if you trigger an event every second for a 30 minute video you'll be sending 1800 hits for that one audio file alone.

Full answer by Daniel: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/133540 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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