Title: average time
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# average time

 *  [mustafaali00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mustafaali00/)
 * (@mustafaali00)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-time-2/)
 * there is a problem with the average time on Dashboard!!
    -  This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by [mustafaali00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mustafaali00/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-time-2/#post-18069691)
 * Thanks for the review.
 * Here is how the Average Session Duration metric is calculated: [https://independentwp.com/knowledgebase/data/what-is-session-duration/](https://independentwp.com/knowledgebase/data/what-is-session-duration/)
 * Could you let me know if there is an issue, in particular, you are seeing with
   this data on your website?
 *  Thread Starter [mustafaali00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mustafaali00/)
 * (@mustafaali00)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-time-2/#post-18069712)
 * Hi Ben,
   If I could send a picture it would be much clearer and easier but let
   me explain. For example yesterday on one of my sites I had visits to only five
   links the first link had 43 visits with an **average view durastion** is 3:16.
   the second had 23 visits with an average view durastion is 0:56 .the third had
   7 visits with an average view durastion is 3:21 .the fourth had one visit with
   an average view durastion is 0:25 .and the last had one visit with an average
   view durastion is 1:34. We saw the total average in the plugin dashboard it will
   show up written 7:24 **average session duration**.I think it was a misunderstanding
   on my part, but you should put average session duration and average viewers duration
   in the dashboard plugin and can toggle between them, so that there is no misunderstanding
   from the user.
 *  Plugin Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-time-2/#post-18069829)
 * Okay I understand now. The View Duration and Session Duration are different metrics.
   For example, the view duration is how long someone looked at one page, while 
   the session duration is how long they spent on the website, which includes every
   page they viewed before leaving.
 * Imagine you have three pages each with an average view duration of 2 minutes.
   If the average visitor looks at two pages, then the average session duration 
   is going to be about 4 minutes.

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