1. Timer Ticks
So you want to know how much time a visitor spent on your site, or the average amount of time spent by a segment of visitors. OK, not much of a problem. But now you want to know how much time was spent on a page. Still not hard IF your page is a page. If your site is in Flash however, you have a stickier issue.
Now you already know how much I love Flash (sarcasm), and here’s yet another reason I’m not a fan of Flash sites that aren’t coded properly. A Timer Tick basically counts the elapsed time that occurs while viewing a Flash “page”. You can set it up to increment for whatever interval you want (say 10 seconds). The problem is this “increment” isn’t captured in a Time on Page metric. It’s captured as a click.
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