This event has been released to the web reader in January 2025, and in the iOS app from version 13.7.0.
It will be added to Android during Q1-2025.
This event is sending the time spent on a replica spread or page in a Prenly reader application, using the replica reading mode. It can be displayed both as a double-page (spread, most common in landscape mode of mobile devices or desktop browsers) or a single-page view (most common in portrait mode of mobile devices).
A counter is started when the spread or page is opened and if the user has spent more than 2 seconds on the spread the event is sent when
If the user rotates the device from portrait to landscape or vice versa while viewing a replica a new replica_pages_view event is triggered
Attributes
| Attribute | Data type | Description | Matomo dimension id |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| article_uids | string | A comma-separated list of all articles included in the replica spread | 39 | |
| publication_date | string | Publication date on form YYYY-MM-DD | 6 | |
| publication_slug | string | Computer-friendly publication label | 4 | |
| publication_uid | string | The unique identifier of the publication | 5 | |
| part_slug | string | Computer-friendly label for the publication part | 8 | |
| page_numbers | string | Page number. Sends a comma-separated string of both pages when a double-page spread is viewed. | 33 | |
| time_spent | int | The time spent on the replica spread in seconds | 31 | |
| title_slug | string | Computer-friendly title name | 2 | |
| title_uid | string | The unique identifier of the title | 3 | |
| url | string | The url of the replica spread/page (to be added in a later version) | - | |
| page_view_id | string | (Prenlytics only) - shared by events triggered from within the same replica view context |
Note that “time_spent” has to be configured as a “custom metric” in Google Analytics in order to aggregate the numbers. Other parameters have to be configured as “custom dimensions”,
Note that contextual data will normally be included when an event is exported.
| Attribute | Example value |
|---|---|
| article_uids | “123123,246246,323323” |
| publication_date | "2019-12-24" |
| publication_slug | “week-32” |
| publication_uid | "45680" |
| part_slug | "part-1" |
| page_numbers | “16,17” |
| time_spent | 42 |
| title_slug | "my-newspaper" |
| title_uid | "2359" |