That would be quite an anomaly, if hundreds of visitors from one site were systematically 3-4 times as likely to go to the toilet while browsing your site as hundreds of visitors from another site. In fact, it would be a statistical miracle, unless one of the referring sites were selling laxatives with instantaneous home delivery.
I'm not saying that this comparison tells you that the average user of one site is reading your site for 200 seconds, the other for 60 seconds. That would be an enormous assumption, probably wrong, because you *don't* know what a user is doing between server requests. But you do know there is a large discrepancy between the average session lengths from the two referring sites, and it is only a modest assumption that, with a sample of hundreds of users, the higher numbers represent a genuine and substantially higher amount of time viewing your site. As I said, you need to apply a little common sense when interpreting these numbers. james >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/02 01:44PM >>> Well yes, it could be not meaningless, but then you still dont know the reason why there is that difference in session time between the two sites. Maybe the visitors who visit website_B with an average session length of 200 have an urge, while viewing the website to go more to the toilet while watching a page on the website, then visitors who visit website_A with an averige of 60 in length of session time. But then I cant image you are interested in the average time a website visitor is spending time on the toiled while he/she has a page open on his/her computer.!!! So it is still bull..... My two cents, +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
