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Send visible time on page when the page gets hidden - #134
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Count only visible time and send the cumulative value on every hide and on pagehide, so durations survive mobile app switches, screen locks and browser kills, back/forward cache restores no longer send increments, and Firefox tab closes are no longer lost. Every page view, including manual ones, closes the previous one. Optional data-pings sends the same value at visible-time thresholds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| // scro = scrolled | ||
| if (collectMetricByString("scro")) { | ||
| append.scrolled = Math.max(0, scrolled, position()); | ||
| append.scrolled = scrolled = Math.max(0, scrolled, position()); |
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Writing position() back into scrolled makes a bad reading permanent: when height is 0 (zero-height document/iframe) position() returns NaN, and Math.max(0, NaN, validValue) stays NaN for the rest of the page view, so every later append reports null instead of the real depth. Verified against this build — hide at a zero-height layout then hide again at a measurable 40% layout gives [{dur:3,scrolled:null},{dur:8,scrolled:null}], where the second should be 40. Since the load/scroll listener already keeps the max, dropping the write-back is enough; alternatively make position() never return NaN:
| append.scrolled = scrolled = Math.max(0, scrolled, position()); | |
| append.scrolled = Math.max(0, scrolled, position()); |
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Fixed in 1cd12c6: position() is no longer written back into scrolled. Verified with the jsdom build: hide at a zero-height layout, then hide again at 40 % now sends [{duration: 3, scrolled: null}, {duration: 8, scrolled: 40}] (was null twice). Chrome spa-scroll, bfcache, hide-show-close and spa scenarios still send the same values, and pnpm run test:unit passes (57).
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| // the image of a page view that just ended), so a later event can retry | ||
| if (queued || push) { |
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The || push branch is dead: the only push caller is sendOnLeave("" + payload.page_id, trueVar) in sendPageView, and the very next statement there is sentDuration = sentScrolled = 0, so these assignments can never be observed. Dropping it saves bytes and removes a comment that describes behaviour that does not happen.
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| // Only skip identical values later when the beacon was queued, so a | |
| // later event can retry after the image fallback | |
| if (queued) { |
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Agreed, removed in 1cd12c6: sendPageView resets both values right after the push send, so only a queued beacon sets the watermark now. Unit tests pass (57).
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Don't write position() back into the scroll maximum, so a NaN reading on a zero-height layout can't stick for the rest of the page view, and drop the unobservable push branch of the sent watermark. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| sentDuration = append.duration; | ||
| sentScrolled = append.scrolled; |
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The invalid reading is out of scrolled but not out of the watermark: a zero-height layout still makes position() return NaN, so the first append latches sentScrolled = NaN and every later append.scrolled > sentScrolled is false, silently dropping scroll-only appends for the rest of the page view (duration-triggered ones still carry the right depth, which is why the fix looked complete).
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| sentScrolled = append.scrolled || 0; |
Verified on the jsdom build with the clock frozen so only scrolled changes: hide at a zero-height layout, then make the layout measurable and scroll to 100 % — current head sends [{duration: 3, scrolled: null}], with this line it sends [{duration: 3, scrolled: null}, {duration: 3, scrolled: 100}]. pnpm run test:unit stays at 57 passing. Coercing at line 707 instead (position() || 0) would also keep "scrolled": null out of the payload.
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Resolved by 74ad260, which removed the sentDuration/sentScrolled watermark entirely. Leaving a page also makes it hidden, so we only send on visibilitychange and there is no second event to skip.
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Leaving a page also makes it hidden, so the pagehide listener, the duplicate-send guard, the back/forward cache fallback and the beacon try/catch are no longer needed. Old browsers that don't fire visibilitychange on navigation lose those durations; this keeps the script small. Appends without values are not sent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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157-163: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd the two-page-view counter-reset test.
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[2]expectation is correct.appends(dom)collects only beacon durations.sa_pageview("/second")finishes the first view through the push/image path, so that append is not included. The later hidden event records only the second view after its counters reset.Suggested fix
it("sends visible time when hidden and the total after returning", function () { const dom = withClock(); dom.clock.time += 3000; setVisibility(dom, "hidden"); @@ expect(appends(dom)).to.deep.equal([3, 5]); dom.window.close(); }); + it("resets visible time for each pageview", function () { + const dom = withClock(); + dom.clock.time += 3000; + dom.window.sa_pageview("/second"); + dom.clock.time += 2000; + setVisibility(dom, "hidden"); + + expect(appends(dom)).to.deep.equal([2]); + dom.window.close(); + }); + it("sends pageview, event and beacon requests", function (done) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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| updateVisibleTime(); | ||
| for (var index = 0; pages && isVisible() && index < pings.length; index++) { | ||
| var ms = pings[index] * thousand - visibleMs; | ||
| if (ms > 0) |
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Dropping the upper bound makes an out-of-range ping value flood the API instead of being ignored: a delay above 2^31−1 ms overflows setTimeout and fires immediately, so sendOnLeave() → schedulePing() re-arms instantly for the rest of the page view. Verified on this build with data-pings="3600000" (a plausible seconds/ms mix-up): 1122 append beacons in 2.2 s and still climbing; with the bound restored it sends none and data-pings="1" keeps working (56 unit tests pass).
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Agreed, restored in 36bec96 (ms > 0 && ms < 2e9, +3 B gzip together with the !pages guard). Verified on the jsdom build: sa_settings.pings = ["3600000"] now sends 0 beacons in 1 s.
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| if (!collectDataOnLeave) return; |
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Without the !pages guard, a hide before any page view was sent still queues an append for a page view that never existed, and now that happens on every hide instead of only on leave. Verified on this build: with data-ignore-pages="/" a hide after 7 s sends {"type":"append","original_id":"<unused uuid>","duration":7,...}, same with data-auto-collect="false" before the first sa_pageview; restoring the guard sends nothing there and keeps the 56 unit tests passing.
| if (!collectDataOnLeave) return; | |
| if (!collectDataOnLeave || !pages) return; |
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Agreed, restored in 36bec96. Verified on the jsdom build: a hide on a page excluded with ignorePages: ["/"] now sends 0 beacons. pnpm run test:unit: 56 passing.
A ping value too large for setTimeout fired immediately and rescheduled itself in a loop, and ignored pages or manual mode sent an append for a page view that was never sent on every hide. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes #57
Time on page is now sent reliably on mobile and after back/forward cache restores, with a small script size increase. Research and device results are in #57 (comment).
Merge order: simpleanalytics/queue#104 must be deployed first. This script can send a page view's duration more than once, and the current queue keeps whichever update it processes last.
Changes in
src/default.js:visibilitychange→ hidden (listener ondocument). Leaving, reloading and entering the back/forward cache all make the page hidden too, so there's nopagehidelistener and only one append per leave.sa_pageview) closes the previous page view and starts its own counters.try/catchis removed. A beacon that can't be sent wouldn't arrive any other way.data-pings="5,60"/sa_settings.pings = [5, 60]sends the same cumulative value when visible time passes each threshold. There is no default.Deliberately not covered, to keep the script small:
visibilitychangeon navigation (Safari before 14.1) lose those durations.sendBeaconreturnsfalse(only happens when 64 KB of beacons are already in flight).Before/after for existing installations:
pagehidelistener is cut off, 1/12 deliveredpagehide; the hidden send runs normallynull/NaNsa_pageviewpage viewsMath.roundMath.floor(stored values are about 0.5 s lower on average)light.json every page viewExpected effect on the dashboard: duration coverage on mobile goes up. The desktop long tail shrinks because hidden time is no longer counted. Medians can shift.
Size compared with
v12(same build, gzip -9, brotli 11):latest.jslight.jsdist/is not included.Security implications
No security impact
Testing
pnpm run test:unit: 56 passing. The beacon test now hides the page instead of firingpagehide, the test for the removed throw fallback is gone, and one new test covers hide → return → hide (sends 3 s, then 5 s).data-pings="60,5". Every scenario stores the expected values with one append per leave. Onv12, kills send nothing, bfcache sends 2 then 3 instead of 5, and a page opened in a background tab sendsnull/NaN.Checklist
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