http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/websitetracking Questions tagged with 'websitetracking' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:47 -0800 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/100919/Help%2Dme%2Danalyze%2Dhow%2Dmuch%2Dtime%2Dyou%2Dspend%2Dlooking%2Dat%2Dmy%2Dstuff Help me become a master of Google Analytics - especially as it pertains to time spent in sections of a site, etc... I'm a little confused with Google Analytics, and I'd love some insight. Googling around hasn't really answered my question...<br> <br> What I really want is to be able to track the average time spent within a section of a site, not just a page.<br> <br> So, let's say I've got 10 pages within a subdirectory of a site. We'll call them /content/1.html through /content/10.html, I can click on "Content" in google analytics, and narrow the results to these pages by searching for the string "/content" .. awesome!<br> <br> Here's where I get a little confused: I see the average time spent on each page, and that makes sense. But I also see an average time spent up top, where it's summing up the number of visits. Is this just an average of the averages listed below, or is it really an average time spent on that whole section? So if someone viewed 1.html, 3.html, 8.html for 1 minute each - does google call that 3 minutes spent in /content? or can google not even do that?<br> <br> In reality, I'm doing this with flash applications, so I can make up any hierarchy of paths I want, and there don't really have to be files there -- I'm just looking for an accurate way of tracking how much time a user is spending doing something that may involve several hits to google analytics "in the meantime"...<br> <br> Any help would be greatly appreciated! tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.100919 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:47 -0800 analytics google googleanalytics tracking website websitetracking twiggy