[Sigia-l] Less than one-minute visits

[Andrew H Otwell]

On 3/27/03 3:49 PM, "sigia-l-request at asis.org" <sigia-l-request at asis.org>
wrote:

>> 75% of visitors stayed for less than one minute
>> 9% of visitors stayed for between 1 - 4 minutes
>> 8% of visitors stayed for between 4 - 19 minutes
>> 7% of visitors stayed for more than 20 minutes
>> 
>> The 7% group are likely reading the articles, and the 9% and 8% are likely
>> also sifting through the site. But what can you do on a site in one
> minute?

Those stats seem reasonable to me. Why should a majority of users spend more
than a minute there anyway?

Really, take out a watch and spend one minute looking at a site--a real full
minute is a *very* long time if you're just scanning a site to decide if
it's relevant to you.

You might also wonder about those 20 minute people--what if they loaded a
page and wandered off for coffee before reading it? These are the kind of
speculative worries that stats like this infect you with. I will agree with
a couple others on the list: don't make this into a bigger issue than it is,
and use these stats only as the very rough and un-scientific information
that they are.

andrew