Pain point · Reporting & analytics · Blocks work
Session duration counts single long page views as bounces
3 source threads · first seen 2021-03 · last seen 2025-02
Summary
The user dislikes how analytics tools including Umami compute session duration: visitors who read one long article and leave count as a bounce, so duration cannot be measured for such sites.
- Affects
- publisher of long articles
Evidence
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“most of these tools will count that as a bounce, as there is no two hits to calculate the delta between”
“Visit time measurement seems to be incorrect”
“Visit Duration in Umami is 1-2 minutes where Google Analytics shows as 40min to over 1 Hours averages”