From 25f910b445d26d27a39fcaa518703c77f68fe055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Steur <tsteur@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:42:53 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] Explain a user should call setSessionCookieTimeout when
 changing visit length

---
 config/global.ini.php | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/global.ini.php b/config/global.ini.php
index 463c166a4c..015606b979 100644
--- a/config/global.ini.php
+++ b/config/global.ini.php
@@ -614,7 +614,9 @@ cookie_path =
 record_statistics = 1
 
 ; length of a visit in seconds. If a visitor comes back on the website visit_standard_length seconds
-; after his last page view, it will be recorded as a new visit
+; after his last page view, it will be recorded as a new visit. In case you are using the Piwik JavaScript tracker to 
+; calculate the visit count correctly, make sure to call the method "setSessionCookieTimeout" eg 
+; `_paq.push(['setSessionCookieTimeout', timeoutInSeconds=1800000])`
 visit_standard_length = 1800
 
 ; The window to look back for a previous visit by this current visitor. Defaults to visit_standard_length.
-- 
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