diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/Dashboard.jsx b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/Dashboard.jsx
index e168b394a5bc8..0f107e596ce39 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/Dashboard.jsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/Dashboard.jsx
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ class Dashboard extends React.PureComponent {
     const bootstrapData = appContainer?.getAttribute('data-bootstrap') || '';
     const { dashboardState, layout } = this.props;
     const eventData = {
+      is_soft_navigation: Logger.softNavigationStart > 0,
       is_edit_mode: dashboardState.editMode,
       mount_duration: Logger.getTimestamp(),
       is_empty: isDashboardEmpty(layout),
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/logger/LogUtils.ts b/superset-frontend/src/logger/LogUtils.ts
index 68c3f9fde4ad4..9fe10dae494b5 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/logger/LogUtils.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/logger/LogUtils.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export const Logger = {
     this.softNavigationStart = window.performance.now();
   },
 
-  // note that this returns ms since page load, NOT ms since epoch
+  // note that this returns ms since last navigation, NOT ms since epoch
   getTimestamp() {
     return Math.round(window.performance.now() - this.softNavigationStart);
   },
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/views/App.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/views/App.tsx
index 8e78ea02401d2..00ad0f2c1b3ef 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/views/App.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/views/App.tsx
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import { theme } from 'src/preamble';
 import ToastPresenter from 'src/messageToasts/containers/ToastPresenter';
 import setupApp from 'src/setup/setupApp';
 import { routes, isFrontendRoute } from 'src/views/routes';
-import { Logger } from '../logger/LogUtils';
+import { Logger } from 'src/logger/LogUtils';
 import { store } from './store';
 
 setupApp();
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const bootstrap = JSON.parse(container?.getAttribute('data-bootstrap') ?? '{}');
 const user = { ...bootstrap.user };
 const menu = { ...bootstrap.common.menu_data };
 const common = { ...bootstrap.common };
-let lastLocation: string;
+let lastLocationPathname: string;
 initFeatureFlags(bootstrap.common.feature_flags);
 
 const RootContextProviders: React.FC = ({ children }) => {
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ const RootContextProviders: React.FC = ({ children }) => {
   useEffect(() => {
     // reset performance logger timer start point to avoid soft navigation
     // cause dashboard perf measurement problem
-    if (lastLocation && lastLocation !== location.pathname) {
+    if (lastLocationPathname && lastLocationPathname !== location.pathname) {
       Logger.resetStartTime();
     }
-    lastLocation = location.pathname;
+    lastLocationPathname = location.pathname;
   }, [location.pathname]);
 
   return (