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robert_yu
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Oct 16, 2015 2:26 AM UTC
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Unix Time Code

Does anyone know about this issue and whether Adobe Analytics is impacted, resulting in an inflated average time spent calculation?

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BrianAu1Accepted solution
Adobe Employee
Oct 16, 2015 2:26 AM UTC

I am not aware of any time calculation issues with Adobe Analytics. There was a change in the logic from the v14 to v15 data platforms. Reference info on the metric derivation:

https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/reference/metrics_time_spent.html

Time stamp + link event: Calculates a visitor's Time Spent value based on Web beacon time stamps generated by the visitor's page views and link events (custom, download, exit, and video).

Explicit average: Calculates average Time Spent metrics using explicit Time Spent values rather than the midpoint Time Spent values.

Best,

Brian

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BrianAu1Adobe EmployeeAccepted solution
Adobe Employee
Oct 16, 2015 2:26 AM UTC

I am not aware of any time calculation issues with Adobe Analytics. There was a change in the logic from the v14 to v15 data platforms. Reference info on the metric derivation:

https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/reference/metrics_time_spent.html

Time stamp + link event: Calculates a visitor's Time Spent value based on Web beacon time stamps generated by the visitor's page views and link events (custom, download, exit, and video).

Explicit average: Calculates average Time Spent metrics using explicit Time Spent values rather than the midpoint Time Spent values.

Best,

Brian

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