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Are you absolutely sure this is how it works? I have a 1 page website where the average time is 1:36, shouldn't it stay at 0 since the users are not clicking to

Are you absolutely sure this is how it works? I have a 1 page website where the average time is 1:36, shouldn't it stay at 0 since the users are not clicking to other pageS?

gabipurcaru 13y ago
My guess is that a small percentage of users refresh the page after a while (if the traffic is small, maybe you're weighing in on that yourself)
- jfoster 13y ago
  But does anyone actually know? I can see from this thread that plenty of people thought they knew, but it seems nearly half thought it worked one way, and nearly half thought it worked the other way.
lenazegher 13y ago
Reasonably sure, unless I'm misinterpreting something: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1006253?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1006253?hl=en
- _mpf 13y ago
  I`ve read that doc, and it looks like you are right. Now i`m even more courious how they measure single hit reading time.
  - jonknee 13y ago
    What is your pages per visit number?
    - rickdale 13y ago
      Before changing the site to a multiple page site, I was averaging 1.2 pages/visit. Again with a 1 page site, but I would develop on the server so I figured GA was picking that up. Since changing to a multiple page site my pages/vist is 2.55 and my average time on site has increased by like 20 seconds, which seems a lot. Maybe people are on 56k, haha.
- itsybitsycoder 13y ago
  Maybe I'm misinterpreting something, but the way I understand it, the last (or only) page of a website is handled differently. If it's a single page website with a demo download, and someone downloads the demo, then the time between pageload and the download would be counted. If there's a Flash movie, the time between loading the page and playing the movie would be counted. It also looks like you can come up with your own custom events to track, maybe like clicking an outgoing link? I've never seriously used GA so take my interpretation with a basketball-sized grain of salt.

Are you absolutely sure this is how it works? I have a 1 page website where the average time is 1:36, shouldn't it stay at 0 since the users are not clicking to other pageS?

gabipurcaru 13y ago

My guess is that a small percentage of users refresh the page after a while (if the traffic is small, maybe you're weighing in on that yourself)

jfoster 13y ago
But does anyone actually know? I can see from this thread that plenty of people thought they knew, but it seems nearly half thought it worked one way, and nearly half thought it worked the other way.

lenazegher 13y ago

Reasonably sure, unless I'm misinterpreting something: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1006253?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1006253?hl=en

_mpf 13y ago
I`ve read that doc, and it looks like you are right. Now i`m even more courious how they measure single hit reading time.
- jonknee 13y ago
  What is your pages per visit number?
  - rickdale 13y ago
    Before changing the site to a multiple page site, I was averaging 1.2 pages/visit. Again with a 1 page site, but I would develop on the server so I figured GA was picking that up. Since changing to a multiple page site my pages/vist is 2.55 and my average time on site has increased by like 20 seconds, which seems a lot. Maybe people are on 56k, haha.
itsybitsycoder 13y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting something, but the way I understand it, the last (or only) page of a website is handled differently. If it's a single page website with a demo download, and someone downloads the demo, then the time between pageload and the download would be counted. If there's a Flash movie, the time between loading the page and playing the movie would be counted. It also looks like you can come up with your own custom events to track, maybe like clicking an outgoing link? I've never seriously used GA so take my interpretation with a basketball-sized grain of salt.