What do you do if your boss comes up to you and asks "So how many times must a person come to our app before they give us $500?"
As an engineer you might not care, but this is the stuff that keeps your CEO and growth lead and head of product up at night. A business owner that can answer that 👆 question reliably is god amongst men.
You can use this repo :)
$ npm install --save web-session-counter
import WebSessionCounter from 'web-session-counter';
// Do this on user activity
WebSessionCounter.update();
// To get the total count of sessions
const count = WebSessionCounter.count;.update() is called automatically every time you import
WebSessionCounter. I recommend calling .update(), if you have a
single page app that doesn't perform a lot of refreshes. Calling
.update frequently, ensures your code will correctly detect every 30
minute period of inactivity.
We use the same definition as Google Analytics. The tl;dr is that a new session starts after every:
- 30 minutes of inactivity
- midnight
utm_campaignquery change
Enjoy.