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Issue 168: New metric: median time on page / site
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Reported by [email protected], Nov 30, 2011
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Name of related component: Data Export API

Request summary:
Since people leaving the page open counts towards time on page / site, the average is usually skewed by a tiny percent of people doing so. As such, adding a metric for median time on page / site would REALLY help.

Use Cases:
Better understanding what a TYPICAL user does on the site.
Nov 16, 2012
Project Member #1 [email protected]
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Labels: -Component-DataExportAPI Component-CoreReportingAPI
Apr 20, 2015
#2 [email protected]
This would be very useful across all metrics where we currently see mean. Median has been shown to be a better indicator than mean.
Oct 29, 2015
#3 [email protected]
+1 Median time is more accurate in data science than average and it's impossible to compute it without raw data.
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