What are the calculation rules for total spent time?

Persisted variables, such as eVars, count towards total seconds spent. Traffic variables, such as props, include seconds spent across subsequent link tracking calls.

Hello, I found that eVars and props are also included in the total spent time. Currently, my calculation rules only use post_visid_high, post_visid_low, post_pagename, visit_num, visit_page_num, and cust_hit_time_gmt to calculate spent_time. How should I calculate the corresponding spent_time for eVars and props?

@leozh1 I've merged this new question with your previous one since they're the same. 

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I found that eVars and props are also included in the total spent time. Currently, my calculation rules only use post_visid_high, post_visid_low, post_pagename, visit_num, visit_page_num, and cust_hit_time_gmt to calculate spent_time. How should I calculate the corresponding spent_time for eVars and props?

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If I understand what you're trying to do correctly, you want to calculate the time between instances of an evar firing and not necessarily the page. You could replace the page dimension with the evar # that you're interested in. Using the evar column, not the post_evar column, will show you the hits where the value fired. You then just do the same calculation that you would with page name, using the time stamp between the two. 

Note, if you try to use the post_evar column, this will include any hits where the value persisted and not just those where it actually fired.