P E A R L   E C H 0   U S E R   G U I D E  

Time on Web Reports 

Pearl Echo can estimate the amount of time users spend on the World Wide 

Web.  Pearl Echo calculates the duration of web activity by looking at 

successive log entries in the Pearl Echo Activity Log.  Because Pearl Echo can 

not determine if users are actively reading a web page or have left their 

browsers open while talking on the phone, eating lunch, etc., a configurable 

Idle Time parameter is used to determine the maximum amount of time a 

user is assessed for being on a single web page.   

Idle Time = 2 minutes 

In the example above, Steven would be assessed 5 minutes of Web activity:  

One minute for being on cnn.com, two minutes (the maximum amount of 

time charged) for being on abcnews.com, one minute for being on espn.com 

 The Time on 

and one minute (half of the Idle Time) for the final entry, monster.com.  

Web value is 

actually calculated

based on seconds; 

To configure the Idle Time, select the Idle Time option in the  Settings  

the final result 

section of the Report Menu.  

rounded to the 

nearest minute. 

When At A Glance and Time on Web reports are run from the Reports menu, 

Pearl Echo reports against data in the active Pearl Echo window. For more 

extensive reporting, refer to the Pearl Echo Report Manager section below.   

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