New metric: median time on page / site

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

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Name of related component: Data Export API

Request summary:
Since people leaving the page open counts towards time on page / site, the 
average is usually skewed by a tiny percent of people doing so. As such, adding 
a metric for median time on page / site would REALLY help.

Use Cases:
Better understanding what a TYPICAL user does on the site.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by beg...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2011 at 2:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by api.pe...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2012 at 3:27

Added labels: Component-CoreReportingAPI
Removed labels: Component-DataExportAPI

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This would be very useful across all metrics where we currently see mean. 
Median has been shown to be a better indicator than mean.

Original comment by jcmullen...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2015 at 8:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

+1 Median time is more accurate in data science than average and it's 
impossible to compute it without raw data.

Original comment by nevezid...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2015 at 3:44

Romanu74 / analytics-issues

New metric: median time on page / site #168