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While exploring different tools in Adobe Omniture Suite, I am finding a new piece of information everyday which I'd like to share with you all. Hope you all find these informative and don't hestitate to pass your invaluable feedback. Enjoy!!!!

Thursday 16 September 2010

Length of a visit in SiteCatalyst

Thought of sharing 2 really basic Visits related bits, when I asked people, not many knew.

1. We all know that a visit is 30 minutes of inactivity, but did you know that maximum length of a visit is 12 hours. This means if you keep browsing 24 hours on your site, without any 30 minutes inactivity, starting 00:01 till 23:59, there will be 2 visits.

2. One more, how SiteCatalyst calculates visits that span over 2 calendar dates? Does it deal with these in the same way as Daily visitors? For instance if you start your visit at 22:00 last night and continued to work for 6 hours, without any 30 minutes inactivity? Will that be 1 visit for yesterday and another for today? What if you access report for just today?
Answer is SiteCatalyst attributes a visit only to the day when it started. So in above example, visit will be counted for yesterday but never for today, even if you are accessing report just for today.
This is different from Daily Visitors where this visitor will be counted once for yesterday's report and again for today's report (depending upon persintent cookies are allowed on the machine)

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