This is a proof of concept repo to show how you can track time spent reading newsletter style emails in Gmail and Yahoo mail via Google AMP.
It was originally generated with bolt.new to save time, and then a few bugs fixed manually.
It accompanies a blog post at tk.gg here: Tracking email read time
Download the repo with git clone or whatever you usually do.
Run npm install.
Run npm run dev to start a development server.
Note: You will require a way to expose your local webserver over the internet for this to work. You can use a tool like ngrok, or tailscale.
Go to localhost:3000 and enter in your remote tunnel domain into the dialog.
Hit generate.
Take the resulting AMP HTML and make sure to remove any escape characters that may interfere with the HTML.
Use this guide to send a test to your own Gmail account.
Open the test email and watch the events come in in your console.
To look up stats, take the sendId provided by pressing the button in the first stage, and visit localhost:3000/stats?sid=<your-send-id>.