: Google Analytics w3wp.exe? In this link Google defines a Visit. The key part that interests me now, is this: "If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity

@Sarah324

Please note, I'm assuming we are talking about a browser/web based application.

The w3wp.exe process recycle should have no effect on external clients. This only affects things server side. The browser would need to initiate a request in order for activity to be logged in Analytics.

Are you using ASP.NET output caching or equivalent? If so, keep in mind this is the caching of the HTML, it does not actually render and process the HTML. So JavaScript does not execute from a server side page caching mechanism.

The only thing I can think of that might cause Google Analytics activity without user interaction would be a page that had some sort of page refresh timer built into it using a meta tag or triggered through JavaScript.

I hope this helps.

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