Tracking the time a user spends on the site more accurately

[pckapps]

Why should VisitorTrackingMiddleware be before django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware?

I have custom middleware that logs a user out after 1 hour. I want to run this before VisitorTrackingMiddleware otherwise it greatly overstates the time a user spends on the site.

Or is there another way to be more accurate in the time a user spends on the site?

[mjschultz]

VisitorTrackingMiddleware is before SessionMiddleware because the tracker only operates on the response from the app. Middlewares go top to bottom for request and bottom to top for response.

Is it possible you could adapt your custom middleware to work on the response?

[pckapps]

Won't be ideal to change my custom middleware. I've placed VisitorTrackingMiddleware at the bottom now and it seems to work?

Alternatively, is there something else I can do so that the time on the site is more accurate? Currently sessions are set to expire after 2 weeks, so if a user doesn't log out it looks like they are always on the site

[SilverStrings024]

Won't be ideal to change my custom middleware. I've placed VisitorTrackingMiddleware at the bottom now and it seems to work?

Alternatively, is there something else I can do so that the time on the site is more accurate? Currently sessions are set to expire after 2 weeks, so if a user doesn't log out it looks like they are always on the site

Do a check to make sure the user is actually active, if they haven't left a certain page or anything, you can log them out.

[SilverStrings024]

Won't be ideal to change my custom middleware. I've placed VisitorTrackingMiddleware at the bottom now and it seems to work?
Alternatively, is there something else I can do so that the time on the site is more accurate? Currently sessions are set to expire after 2 weeks, so if a user doesn't log out it looks like they are always on the site

Do a check to make sure the user is actually active, if they haven't left a certain page or anything, you can log them out.

Oh...nevermind, it was last year that this was posted lol my bad, didntmean to necrobump