A simple script that counts the viewport time of sections of your page.
If an array containing ids is not provided, it checks for all elements that have an id tag associated with them and counts number of seconds the element is in the viewport (while the tab is active) Updates count continuously each second and takes into account viewport change events such as zooming.
Oh and no dependencies :)
Online content such as news, medium articles, shocking top 10 clickbait buzzfeed articles, all seek to attract large shares of online attention by keeping their users engaged. A common challenge is to identify which parts / which type of content was preferred by users.
Apart from analytics, this can also be used in fields like information retrieval. Eg. When using the tf-idf model, giving higher weight to words belonging to hotter sections of the page. Where hotter means having a higher degree of viewport time :P
- Provide an example which specifies a backend output location for the data and store it.
- Add option to remove insights from 'Bouncers' (as they affect the time count of the top part of page only)
- A generateReport option which takes a snapshot of the whole page and perhaps outputs a viewport time graph after normalizing the raw data from the object
- Include some kind of support for dynamically generated elements