Looking for statistics on how long visitors will spend looking for information on a website
March 16, 2012 1:47 AM   Subscribe

Looking for statistics on how long visitors will spend looking for information on a website

I'm looking for statistics about how long the average website visitor will search a website for a particular bit of information before giving up and trying elsewhere.

I'm sure that I have read somewhere about studies where the experimenters give a bunch of users a fact to find out (like the date of a particular battle, or the phone number for a company) and then record how they go about doing it. I can't find the article I'm thinking of - can anybody offer any pointers?
posted by primer_dimer to Computers & Internet (1 answer total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox site is a great source for this type of information. Here's one of his articles: How Long Do Users Stay on Web Pages?
posted by Jasper Friendly Bear at 6:56 AM on March 16, 2012 [1 favorite]


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