Re:Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk
by snowwrestler on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:23PM
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> Time on Page
> The average time people spend on a particular page on your site. This is calculated as the difference between the point when a person lands on a particular page and when they move on to the next page.
Re:Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk
by shanebellone on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:13PM
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"I use Matomo for my analytics. I think their little Javascript doodad attempts to report back time information after 15 seconds. Anyone who clicks away before that timer goes off is recorded as a zero."
Why in the world do they measure time on page like that? All they need to do is compare timestamps between hits...
I use Matomo for my analytics. I think their little Javascript doodad attempts to report back time information after 15 seconds. Anyone who clicks away before that timer goes off is recorded as a zero.
I get a sort of warm fuzzy feeling when I see high time on page numbers, but zeroes never bother me. There are a huge number of reasons why a time can't be captured, but when a time is captured, it is almost definitely someone who had eyeballs on your page.
You're doing a good job, Simon! I would be thrilled to see a million clicks from Twitter on one of my posts. I am just more excited about your 50k clicks from Hacker News!