Boomerang Howto #1b:
User clicks a link on a page we control and page is usable at some developer determined point

See use case #1 for a description of this requirement.

We use two pages for this use case. They may be any two pages on your site, and the code you put into them is identical, so you could just put it on all pages on your site. Unlike case 1a, in this case, we do not allow the beacon to fire when the onload event fires. Instead, we fire the page_ready event when we determine that the page is ready. We also set the autorun parameter to false to stop boomerang from running automatically.

1. Copy boomerang.js and the images/ directory into your document root
2. Add the code below to all your pages. You may add it at any point before your page is considered complete.

<script src="boomerang.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
BOOMR.init({
		user_ip: "<user's ip address>",
		beacon_url: "http://yoursite.com/path/to/beacon.php",
		autorun: false
	});
</script>

The rest of your page will load normally. When you determine (through javascript, perhaps) that your page is usable by a user browsing your website, you need to fire the page_ready event like this:

BOOMR.page_ready();	// Tell boomerang that the page is now usable

As in howto-1a, you need to populate the user_ip field using a back end programming language.

Go to Page #2 now to see the results of the page load test.

The latest code and docs is available on github.com/lognormal/boomerang