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This table shows the duration of visits. The Visits column counts the number of visits over a specific range of time. For each visit, the Length of Visit column indicates the time of a visit, in second or minutes. The Percentage of All Visits column shows the percentage of Visits column of all the visits over a specific range of time. When your users enter the portal, how long are they staying? It's often difficult to get your users to lists the total number of visit sessions during the selected time range, ranked by visit duration. The table divides visits into common visit times and does not list all visit lengths by all users individually. Use the Average Visit Duration report to see how similar information changes over time.

This metric can be helpful for determining how engaged users are with your site. Typically, the goal is to have users stay longer on a site, but that should be your ultimate goal. Thinking of creative ways to engage your users can also help you depending on your concerns you may find a median or average time might be ideal. Using this report alongside various Page Navigation or Goal widgets can help determine if your visitors are finding what they came for, or are leaving your site without accomplishing their goals. Creatively engaging your users can help push them to spend more time in the portal. Use clearly labeled links and well thought out anchor text to send direct them to other pages on the site, and expose them to a variety of content within the your portal. 

 

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The Length of Visit table widget contains the following columns:

  • Length of Visit: The  - A duration bracket of a visit sessions.
  • Visits: The  - The number of visits that occurred within the listed duration. Visits are a series of SharePoint page requests from the same uniquely identified client with a time of no more than 30 minutes between each page request.
  • Percentage of All Visits: The  - The percentage of visits  of the listed duration out of all visits to your site.