# Tracked read time

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tracked-read-time/56096>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tracked-read-time/56096 "2016-07-21T13:06:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tollef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@tollef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tollef)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tracked-read-time/56096/1 "2016-07-21T13:06:49Z")

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How do [discuss.elastic.co](http://discuss.elastic.co) track readingtime? I see that my profile have a tracker that says "7h read time".

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tracked-read-time/56096/2 "2016-07-22T07:22:31Z")

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We keep track of your browser window being in focus using [Page Visibility APIs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API)

Every 5 seconds while you are reading stuff we send aggregated stats back to the server.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tracked-read-time/56096/3 "2017-07-06T13:46:35Z")

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