Detect when user navigate from one web page to another

Question

I am writing MVC3 web app I need to know at server side when user navigate from one web page to another. I do not need to know from what pages page to which just fact that user navigated. I could find this by adding Session variable to every Home Controller Actions but maybe there is better solution?

Answer 1

Use a global filter attribute for al your controller actions. You can set that attribute in the global asax. In that case you know when an action is hit.

Answer 2

You could try sending AJAX request bound to onbeforeunload browser event.

Basically, it happens on the client side, so the programming should also be in client. Javascript could be the way to go. Though it may deliver some inconvenience to the user.