Website Statistics

[Jim Kenny]

I have an extranet of sorts with a large number of paid subscribers as well as advertising opportunities. We feel that we have a lot to offer an advertiser given the 43 minutes the typical user session lasts. Does anyone know how long the average user session lasts? I am assuming 43 minutes is long given my own habits. I would like to find this and other generic statistics. Anyone know a good place to look?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

43 minutes would be WAY longer than average. There really is no reliable way to track that statistic. Problem is, depending on how the stats program is tracking the hits, it may or may not be counting time the customer may have the page open in the backround, or after the customer has closed the window.

You would need to have some kind of javascript and cookie that stored the t-time the page was hit, and then do an onexit function to subtract the current t-time from the time set in the cookie. Store that value, and to that for every page hit, then add up the aggregate time spent.

Even that would not be 100% accurate.

There are some web analyzers that track something like that.