pagevisittimer v0.0.4

README pagevisittimer

The package pagevisisttimer enables use of websockets to measure the time a visitor stays on the pages of your site.

Prerequisites

• MongoDB and the npm package mongodb is required. Feel free to send a pull request if you have implemented another backing.
• npm package websocket

Installation & Usage Example

1. npm install pagevisittimer

2. In your app.js or equivalent:

   var server = http.createServer(app)
   var pagevisittimer = require('pagevisittimer');
   pagevisittimer.start(server); // will start the websocket server

3. Copy client-side Javascript file to your public folder: cp node_modules/pagevisittimer/pagevisittimer.js public/js/

4. Add to you base layout view HTML: <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/pagevisittimer.js"></script>

Configuration

Change MongoDB host

pagevisittimer will use the collection pagevisists. This cannot currently be changed, but the MongoDB host can be changed using one call:

var pagevisittimer = require('pagevisittimer');
pagevisittimer.set('mongodburl', 'mongodb://localhost:27017/pagevisists')