Question..

[littlea]

Is it really possible that someone would want to stay on a site for over three or four hours? I get hits from Reston, Virginia and from various places in Georgia that do just that. Are they hot linking? I appreciate your help. Still loving your service!

[StatCounterJen]

Hi a,

If you have a site that people want to keep revisiting, then long visits are to be expected!

[steve_c]

I've had some real weird stats regarding long visits...

Someone was on my site for 23 hours once :confused:

I can only assumed they forgot to turn theyre computer off!!!

I also have an obsscure little english village mentioned on my site where i did some work.. and someone from california did a search for this village and stayed on the site for 8 hours!!!

It seems its hard to predict peoples online habits..

The same as theyre offline habits i guess :-D

[Ryss]

If your user is using Opera it is quite possible. I often leave windows open sometimes for more than 24 hrs. or until I get round to looking at the site in detail.

Regards
Ryss

[webado]

The visit length itself doesn't tell the whole story. The number of pageloads involved and their time stamps complete the picture.

When you see a long visit, you should always check to see how many pages were loaded and when. You may find that maybe only 2 pages were loaded but sufficiently far apart to count as a long visit and close enough apart (within 24 hours of each other) to belong to the same visit.

Some people install a silly browser add-on that refreshes their browser every few seconds or minutes, and a hit is logged every time that happens too.