How does Google calculate time on page?
 

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I would like to know that How does Google calculates time on page?

The calculation of a time depends if the visitor has one page view or multiple page views and in most cases the Google does not calculate time spent on a page when there is only one page viewed in the visit. So when there are multiple page views in a visit the calculation is based on the start time between the current page and the start time of the next page load.

Google puts a time stamp whenever any user lands on a particular page then it compares the time stamp of one page with the other. E.g. Any user enters the site on Page A and moves to Page B then lands to Page C and finally leaves the site. In this case, a time stamp is put on Page A suppose its 10:10, when the user moves to Page B, another time stamp is placed on Page B, suppose its 10:20 and then when the user lands on Page C, another time stamp is placed, lets say 10:30. Now to calculate time on Page A, Google will subtract the time stamp on Page B with that of A. In this case, 10:20-10:10 which will come to 10 minutes for Page A.

Data hits are the image requests sent to Google Analytics. Three are six different types of data hits in Google Analytics:

Pageview hits
Event hits
Ecommerce transaction hits
Ecommerce transaction item hits
User defined hits (this is the predecessor of custom variables)
Social plugin hits

The calculation of a time depends if the visitor has one page view or multiple page views and in most cases the Google does not calculate time spent on a page when there is only one page viewed in the visit. So when there are multiple page views in a visit the calculation is based on the start time between the current page and the start time of the next page load.....

The calculation of a time depends if the visitor has one page view or multiple page views and in most cases the Google does not calculate time spent on a page when there is only one page viewed in the visit. So when there are multiple page views in a visit the calculation is based on the start time between the current page and the start time of the next page load..