What is the difference between Pages/Sessions and Avg Sessions Duration ?

[Dynapro]

Hello everyone,
what is the difference , i am unable to get it.

[Saravanan28]

Average session duration measures the average length of sessions on a website, from the moment a user lands on the site to the moment they exit. Time on page measures the time a user spends on individual pages during a session.

[carolp]

As per Google defination -

Average session duration is: total duration of all sessions (in seconds) / number of sessions.

Or in simple words -
Average session duration is: the average length of visitors' sessions

Pages/Sessions

Pages per session is the average number of pages a person views in a given session.


(Note - Session (30 minutes by default))

[Saravanan28]

Average session duration measures the average length of sessions on a website, from the moment a user lands on the site to the moment they exit. Time on page measures the time a user spends on individual pages during a session.

[Sherin]

While the time-on-page can never be greater than the session-duration for a single session, we can often observe the opposite when considering the averages for multiple sessions. This is because we exclude the number of exits when calculating the average time-on-page, whereas all visits are taken into account for calculating the average session-duration.

[jesica]

Average session duration measures the average length of sessions on a website, from the moment a user lands on the site to the moment they exit. Time on page measures the time a user spends on individual pages during a session.