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Understand sessions and pageviews

Learn what starts a session and how browser activity is grouped.

Last updated August 20, 2026

Before you start

  • A Grometrics workspace
  • At least one tracked session in the selected date range

How to do it

  1. 1

    Open Visitors, choose a visitor, and open a session timeline.

  2. 2

    Compare its first page, subsequent pageviews, active time, and session end.

  3. 3

    For a route that changed before the tracker became ready, call window.grometrics.pageview(missedPath) with the saved same-origin path.

  4. 4

    Check a second visit after the inactivity window to see the new session boundary.

What to check

  • Navigation events remain inside the active session
  • A later return creates a new session without creating a new person
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