AJAX - when user leaves page - good or bad practice/implementation?

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Published on 2009-10-25T03:43:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 17:48 UTC
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I was just reading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619930/how-to-check-users-leave-a-page earlier on when suddenly I thought of performing AJAX when user leaves the page to send analytical data back to the server.

Is performing AJAX on the onunload event a good or bad practice/implementation?

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