what would one need:

1. a possibility to know "full time on page" (including all events)
   imho: this should be the base for all metrics.
   isn't the thing we want to know something like ="time on url"?

2. a possibility to measure "time directly on page" for cases where there are events opening a new "layer" on same url which hides the content of the page and bring up new content on same url:
   for this one need some kind of marker within an event (open new layer + close layer)
   with this:
   "time directly on page" = "full time on page" - "time between event with marker opening a new layer and event with marker closing new layer"

3. hmm maybe only a nomenclature thing: do events really have a duration or do we track here something like "time between actions"?
   if so, one could think of naming it

• "event time" e.g.: 27. March, 22:03:06
• "time till next action" e.g. 50 seconds

Hi @hpvd

I may be wrong, but it sounds like the solution is simply to use the Heart beat timer. please find more information here: https://developer.piwik.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#accurately-measure-the-time-spent-on-each-page

hmmm- heart-beat timer is in use.
One can easily proof this, because also very short one page visits show a duration in the headline of the visit in visitorlog

so there is no solution yet,

If heartbeat timer is in use, then the time on page should be accurate. unless the feature does not work for some reason?

as described, time on page is only fine in the headline (sum) of a visit in vistor log, but not for the single url within the visit.

@hpvd Do you mind reporting a simple list of steps to reproduce the issue? Ie. track page view, track event, track event, wait 1 min, Expected to see XYZ, Got instead: ABC. Would be very helpful and we'll take a look.

1. have a visit with only one page view,
2. some events (triggered at this page)
3. leave.

=> time in headline of the visit (summary) in visitor log is fine.
=> time shown on hover on page is time until first event happen.

=> imho: would expect to see on hover on a page the total / full time on page until this page is left. No matter if there are any events during page view or not.
imho: THIS should be the base for all page time specific metrics.
see 1) in #11546 (comment)

imho: mostly, events shoud be a "child" or "subpart" of the time on a page
see 1) in #11546 (comment)

2. in we have no "time on url": Piwik handels events as leaving page (at least in visitor log) #11546 (comment)
   is a new "special variant"

with this, in the actual implementation:
Tracking of events, shorten the measured time on page.

I think I'm having the same issue as @hpvd – if a page view has subsequent events, the page view time is only measured as the time between the initial page view and the first event. Essentially, every event is counted as a separate "page" rather than sub-events of the page they occurred on.

Possibly there is a strong relationship to: #9198

This behavior should be meanwhile improved with #18294
Everything else should be covered in of #9198