Question

I am looking for a way to simulate with Google Analytics _gaq.push that the user has left the page (so GA stops counting on Average time on site).

This is some code I use to track AJAX pages in Google Analytics (it counts a page view):

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/ajax/save']);

What I am looking for is something such as:

_gaq.push(['_exitCurrentPage', 'http://example.com/']);

Does anything with that functionality exist?

Thanks in advance,

Xavi

Answer 1

I don’t think that there’s any specific functionality in GA for this but you could just set a cookie called something like dont_track then set it to simulate the page exit. You could then check for the cookie’s existence before calling your normal tracking code and stop execution if it exists.