ClickTracks Sessions

How sessions are determined

[dave roberts]

An earlier thread posed the question of how ClickTracks determined what a session was. That thread terminated because of time, but I thought there might be interest in an answer, so as a user of the package, I went to the Clicktracks help file, and here is what I found:

Three parameters help ClickTracks know when a session is ended. Since the HTTP protocol contains no formal mechanism for defining the end of the visitor session, this must be inferred from the other available data. You can adjust the parameters used to compute this as follows:

· Max seconds between page requests. Default = 900 (15 minutes)

A session is considered over if no requests are received from the visitor within this time. A request received after this time will result in a new session being started - and that session counting as a new visitor.

· Max seconds in session. Default = 1800 (30 minutes)
The session is always closed after this many seconds.

· Max requests in session. Default = 250
After receiving this number of requests the session is closed and a new session started.

[aspdaddy]

I didnt see the earlier post but that sounds about right,I researched this last year.

Apart from the request limit its pretty standard approach to determine session boundaries.

But I never found any documentation of how individual users are identified - did you?