Question

I need to differentiate between page load and page refresh in jQuery. I have no idea how to implement the following code.

if( /* this page is loaded reffered */ )
    ++count ;
else if( /* this paged is refreshed */ )
    alert("refreshed");

Answer 1

Using a simple counter won’t work. I’ll try to illustrate it in semi-pseudo-code

$(document).ready(function(){
  if(isPageLoadCookiePresent){
     //this is a page load
     setPageLoadCookie();
  }else{
     //this is a page refresh
  } 
});

Alternatively, instead of setting a cookie, you could use the HTML5 web storage API.

saveButton.addEventListener('click', function () {
  window.localStorage.setItem('value', area.value);
  window.localStorage.setItem('timestamp', (new Date()).getTime());
}, false);
textarea.value = window.localStorage.getItem('value');

Taken from here