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Ed Guccione

Improving your average: using R to beef up Average Time on Page

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Comparing the calculated median and the Google Analytics mean average

Google Analytics’s Average Time on Page can be a hugely important metric but also a very misleading one. As a mean average, it can be influenced by a skewed distribution, a problem that you can’t diagnose in the web interface. So I found a way to break down the data into individual visit lengths.