Comments on: Google Analytics: 00:00:00 Avg. Time on Site?

By: Ben H

Ben H — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:49:13 +0000

Thanks for the great discussion. I think yours is the best on point. I’ve directed people I’ve helped in your direction from Doodgical.com (if you happen to see that in your analytics).

By: Bounce = Google Analytics Average Time on Site 00:00:00 | Totally Doodgical

Bounce = Google Analytics Average Time on Site 00:00:00 | Totally Doodgical — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:45:24 +0000

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By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:56:11 +0000

thanks for the tip, I was thinking my content was rubbish with the 0:00:00 but that explains alot

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:00:58 +0000

Cheers for that. Nice, short, clear. Thanks.

By: Torrey

Torrey — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:57:37 +0000

Great. That had me freaking out

By: Josh Stauffer

Josh Stauffer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:54:10 +0000

This post explained a lot. I was very upset to see that I had a 100% bounce rate with 0:00 time on site but now I feel somewhat better.

By: Yoga Training

Yoga Training — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:59:12 +0000

That explains alot – I've been using the “download speed test” for days now – thinking that my host is having problems – but now I can stop all the site download speed tests.

By: scottmcandrew

scottmcandrew — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:44:34 +0000

Yes, you're understanding it correctly.

By: muiomuio

muiomuio — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:30:47 +0000

Interesting article but I think I didn't quite understood. Google Analytics needs 2 points to know how long a user was on the website the time the 1st page was requested and the time another page was requested.

If another page isn't requested that visitor will be considerer as a bounce and it's time on site will be counted as 00:00:00. Is this correct?

By: Los Angeles Movers

Los Angeles Movers — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:59:09 +0000

Thanks for that clarification, I was thinking that maybe it’s counting bot/spider visits as zero duration because they are not real visitors. But now that I think of it, Google is probably smarter than that and doesn’t count spiders at all in Analytics.