@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
 } from '../lib/site-metadata';
 import { getFormPolicy } from '../lib/growth/form-policy';
 import { WebsiteSignals } from '../components/shared/WebsiteSignals';
+import { EngagedTimeSignal } from '../components/shared/EngagedTimeSignal';
 import { websiteContentCatalog } from '../lib/growth/website-content';
 
 const display = Archivo_Black({
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ export default function RootLayout({
         */}
         <JsonLd data={rootJsonLd()} />
         <WebsiteSignals catalog={websiteContentCatalog()} />
+        <EngagedTimeSignal />
         <Nav />
         <div id="site-content">
           <main>
 
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+import { render, act, cleanup } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { EngagedTimeSignal } from './EngagedTimeSignal';
+
+vi.mock('../../lib/analytics/client', () => ({
+  trackEngagedTime: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+let pathname = '/';
+vi.mock('next/navigation', () => ({
+  usePathname: () => pathname,
+}));
+
+import { trackEngagedTime } from '../../lib/analytics/client';
+
+const tracked = vi.mocked(trackEngagedTime);
+
+/**
+ * `engaged-time.spec.ts` covers the accounting. These cover the wiring, which
+ * is where this can silently do nothing: an effect that never runs, an
+ * interval that is never installed, or a listener that outlives the component.
+ * The unit tests would stay green through all three.
+ */
+function setVisibility(state: 'visible' | 'hidden') {
+  Object.defineProperty(document, 'visibilityState', {
+    configurable: true,
+    get: () => state,
+  });
+  document.dispatchEvent(new Event('visibilitychange'));
+}
+
+describe('EngagedTimeSignal', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    tracked.mockClear();
+    pathname = '/';
+    setVisibility('visible');
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    cleanup();
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it('reports ten engaged seconds after ten visible seconds', () => {
+    render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(10_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).toHaveBeenCalledWith(10);
+  });
+
+  it('reports nothing before the first threshold', () => {
+    render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(9_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('reports thirty seconds as a second event, not a replacement', () => {
+    render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(30_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, 10);
+    expect(tracked).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, 30);
+  });
+
+  it('does not accrue engagement while the tab is hidden', () => {
+    render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(3_000);
+      setVisibility('hidden');
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(120_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('reports nothing for a tab that was never visible at mount', () => {
+    // THE honesty property, asserted where it is load-bearing. The production
+    // implementation of "a never-seen tab reports nothing" is the single
+    // `startVisible: document.visibilityState === 'visible'` argument; a
+    // regression to `true` would let a background tab's throttled interval
+    // fire both thresholds for a page nobody ever looked at.
+    setVisibility('hidden');
+    render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(120_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('ignores visibility changes after unmount', () => {
+    // A leaked listener would let one tab-away emit engaged_time for every
+    // page visited earlier in the session, each stamped with the CURRENT
+    // source_page, breaking the two-events-per-pageview bound.
+    const { unmount } = render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(30_000);
+    });
+    tracked.mockClear();
+    unmount();
+    act(() => {
+      setVisibility('hidden');
+      setVisibility('visible');
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('starts a fresh budget on each pathname, not once per document', () => {
+    const { rerender } = render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(30_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    tracked.mockClear();
+    pathname = '/pricing';
+    rerender(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(10_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).toHaveBeenCalledExactlyOnceWith(10);
+  });
+
+  it('stops reporting once unmounted', () => {
+    // A leaked interval would keep attributing engagement to a page the
+    // visitor has already navigated away from.
+    const { unmount } = render(<EngagedTimeSignal />);
+    unmount();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
+    });
+    expect(tracked).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+'use client';
+
+import { useEffect } from 'react';
+import { usePathname } from 'next/navigation';
+import { createEngagedTimeTracker } from '../../lib/analytics/engaged-time';
+import { trackEngagedTime } from '../../lib/analytics/client';
+
+/**
+ * How often to re-evaluate. The tracker derives elapsed time from a clock
+ * rather than counting ticks, so a browser throttling this interval in a
+ * background tab delays the event but never miscounts it.
+ */
+const TICK_MS = 1_000;
+
+/**
+ * Emits `marketing:engaged_time` once the visitor has genuinely been looking
+ * at the page for 10s, and again at 30s.
+ *
+ * Without this the site has no passive engagement signal on most viewports:
+ * `marketing:stage_progress` is gated to at least 1024x720 and fired on 0.0%
+ * of mobile sessions in the 30 days to 2026-09-18. A visitor who reads and
+ * clicks nothing emitted one `$pageview` and nothing else, which PostHog
+ * scores as a zero-second session and therefore a bounce.
+ *
+ * Re-created per pathname so engaged time is measured per page rather than
+ * per document, matching `capture_pageview: 'history_change'`.
+ */
+export function EngagedTimeSignal() {
+  const pathname = usePathname();
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (typeof document === 'undefined' || typeof window === 'undefined') return;
+
+    const tracker = createEngagedTimeTracker({
+      now: () => Date.now(),
+      startVisible: document.visibilityState === 'visible',
+      onThreshold: (thresholdMs) => trackEngagedTime(Math.round(thresholdMs / 1000)),
+    });
+
+    const onVisibilityChange = () => {
+      tracker.setVisible(document.visibilityState === 'visible');
+      // Re-evaluate immediately: returning to a tab that already passed a
+      // threshold should not wait out another interval.
+      tracker.tick();
+    };
+
+    document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', onVisibilityChange);
+    // Stop waking up once both thresholds have fired. Without this the
+    // interval runs at 1Hz for the life of every page on the site, doing
+    // nothing.
+    const intervalId = window.setInterval(() => {
+      tracker.tick();
+      if (tracker.isComplete()) window.clearInterval(intervalId);
+    }, TICK_MS);
+
+    return () => {
+      document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', onVisibilityChange);
+      window.clearInterval(intervalId);
+    };
+  }, [pathname]);
+
+  return null;
+}
@@ -50,3 +50,11 @@ export function trackStageProgress(
     ...(beat ? { beat } : {}),
   });
 }
+
+/**
+ * Passive engagement. `engaged_seconds` is visible time only, so it can be
+ * read as real attention rather than a tab left open.
+ */
+export function trackEngagedTime(engaged_seconds: number) {
+  track(analyticsEvents.marketingEngagedTime, { engaged_seconds });
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import {
+  createEngagedTimeTracker,
+  ENGAGED_TIME_THRESHOLDS_MS,
+} from './engaged-time';
+
+/**
+ * Why this exists.
+ *
+ * PostHog derives `session_duration` from `max(timestamp) - min(timestamp)`
+ * over a session's events, and `$pageleave` only fires on `pagehide` — never
+ * on `visibilitychange`. A visitor who lands, reads, clicks nothing and leaves
+ * the tab open therefore emits exactly one event, records a duration of zero,
+ * and is classified as a bounce. Measured 2026-09-18: that is 13.6% of desktop
+ * and 17.8% of mobile homepage sessions.
+ *
+ * This tracker exists to make the recorded duration reflect the real one. That
+ * only holds if it counts *visible* time and nothing else — time in a hidden
+ * background tab is not engagement, and counting it would inflate the metric
+ * rather than correct it. The hidden-time tests below are the ones that keep
+ * this honest, so treat them as load-bearing rather than incidental.
+ */
+
+function setup(startVisible = true) {
+  let clock = 1_000;
+  const onThreshold = vi.fn();
+  const tracker = createEngagedTimeTracker({
+    onThreshold,
+    now: () => clock,
+    startVisible,
+  });
+  return {
+    onThreshold,
+    tracker,
+    advance(ms: number) {
+      clock += ms;
+      tracker.tick();
+    },
+    advanceWithoutTick(ms: number) {
+      clock += ms;
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('engaged time thresholds', () => {
+  it('exports 10s and 30s, the first matching PostHog bounce cutoff', () => {
+    // 10s is not arbitrary: PostHog's bounce test is `session_duration >= 10s`.
+    // An event at a genuine 10 visible seconds makes the recorded duration
+    // match reality for a reader who never clicks.
+    expect(ENGAGED_TIME_THRESHOLDS_MS).toEqual([10_000, 30_000]);
+  });
+
+  it('fires the first threshold only once ten visible seconds have passed', () => {
+    const { advance, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(9_999);
+    expect(onThreshold).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    advance(1);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledExactlyOnceWith(10_000);
+  });
+
+  it('fires each threshold exactly once, however many times it is ticked', () => {
+    const { advance, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(10_000);
+    advance(1_000);
+    advance(1_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledExactlyOnceWith(10_000);
+  });
+
+  it('fires the second threshold at thirty visible seconds', () => {
+    const { advance, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(30_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, 10_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, 30_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  it('does not count time while the page is hidden', () => {
+    // The honesty test. A backgrounded tab accrues wall-clock time but no
+    // engagement; counting it would inflate session duration rather than
+    // correct it.
+    const { advance, tracker, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(5_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(false);
+    advance(60_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(tracker.visibleMs()).toBe(5_000);
+  });
+
+  it('resumes accumulating when the page becomes visible again', () => {
+    const { advance, tracker, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(6_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(false);
+    advance(60_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(true);
+    advance(4_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledExactlyOnceWith(10_000);
+    expect(tracker.visibleMs()).toBe(10_000);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps time from earlier visible runs across repeated hide/show cycles', () => {
+    // One cycle cannot distinguish `accumulatedMs +=` from `accumulatedMs =`,
+    // because the accumulator is still zero. Two can.
+    const { advance, tracker, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(4_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(false);
+    advance(60_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(true);
+    advance(4_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(false);
+    advance(60_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(true);
+    advance(2_000);
+    expect(tracker.visibleMs()).toBe(10_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledExactlyOnceWith(10_000);
+  });
+
+  it('reports completion only once every threshold has fired', () => {
+    const { advance, tracker } = setup();
+    advance(10_000);
+    expect(tracker.isComplete()).toBe(false);
+    advance(20_000);
+    expect(tracker.isComplete()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('never fires for a page that starts hidden and is never seen', () => {
+    // A prerendered or background-opened tab must not report engagement.
+    const { advance, onThreshold, tracker } = setup(false);
+    advance(120_000);
+    expect(onThreshold).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(tracker.visibleMs()).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('counts time that elapsed between ticks, not tick count', () => {
+    // The production caller ticks on an interval; a throttled background
+    // timer must not under-report time the page was genuinely visible.
+    const { advanceWithoutTick, tracker, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advanceWithoutTick(30_000);
+    tracker.tick();
+    expect(onThreshold).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  it('does not double count when told it is visible twice', () => {
+    const { advance, tracker, onThreshold } = setup();
+    advance(5_000);
+    tracker.setVisible(true);
+    advance(4_999);
+    expect(onThreshold).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(tracker.visibleMs()).toBe(9_999);
+  });
+});