Logging the 'back' button

How to tell if visitor hits the back button while loading

[mayor]

Is there any way to tell if my visitors hit the 'back' button on their browser while a page is loading? My suspicions are that these type of incomplete visits aren't recorded up in the raw logs.

[jeremy goodrich]

As far as I know, they should have 'cached' the page that they land one when they hit the 'back' button...so, odds are it won't be recorded.

You might try to incorporate ( if you can...) more 'in site' navigational elements, like WebmasterWorld, for example, so people interact more with the site, and less with their browser...then you can track more stuff.

Hope that helps.

[toadhall]

You might use the javascript onAbort event handler in each of the image tags to trigger a log writing function if any image loading is interrupted.

[indomitable]

These cached hits are the territory of the high-level web analytics products which use client side tracking techniques to gather data, even when the user is offline. I know Clickstream is one example of a company using this technique, any more?

I think that if you are looking for a free product then you will probably have to write one for yourself. Sorry!