Hi!
I know Time Spent per Visit is calculated as Total Seconds Spent / (Visits - Bounces). However, my understanding is that end time stamps don't fire for any exits, not just bounces.
Why wouldn't the calculation be Total Seconds Spent / (Visits - Exits)?
It's been super difficult to find information about time metrics, so any and all help is appreciated!
I believe the "Visits minus Bounces" just means that single hit visits aren't included in the metric (which they can't be, because a bounce has no "total second spent" to begin with.
Think about it this way:
Visit 1
Visit 2
The average time, based on these two visits should be 3:04... the total time from Visit 1 / "1 Visit" (i.e. exclude the visit with no time).
If they didn't subtract Visit 2 (the bounced visit), then your average time would end up being 1:52 (3:04/2 visits) which wouldn't be correct at all.
I think this is just an overly complicated way of saying that that Average Time Spent doesn't included "bounced visits".
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