Visit depth: how many pages each visit sees

What it is

A Visit depth card on your dashboard: the share of visits that saw 1 page, 2 pages, 3 to 5, 6 to 10 and 11 or more, with the share that saw 3 or more and the average.

Why it matters

An average of 2.1 pages per visit can hide a site where most people read one page and a few read twenty. The spread shows whether people explore or leave, and whether a change to your menus or links moved it.

How it works

1. When you open the dashboard, quietstats groups the pageviews in the range into visits, using the same rule as everywhere else: a new visit starts after 30 minutes without a pageview.
2. It counts the pages in each visit and adds the visit to one of five buckets.
3. Only the five bucket totals leave the database, never a visit or a visitor.
4. Filters and segments apply, so you can compare the spread for one source, country or page.

Set it up

Nothing to set up: it works with the standard one-line script.

<script data-host="https://quietstats.co.uk" data-dnt="true" src="https://quietstats.co.uk/js/script.js" id="YOUR_SITE_ID" async defer></script>

Privacy: what is and isn’t collected

Collected

• Nothing new: it reads the pageviews you already have
• Only five totals, never a visit or a visitor

Never collected

• Cookies, localStorage or anything else stored on the visitor’s device
• IP addresses or user agents (used in memory, then discarded)
• Anything that links a visitor across days (the visitor ID resets daily)

How quietstats works, and the legal caveats →

Rows and limits

• 0 script bytes, 0 rows written
• Rows: 1 read of the range’s pageviews per dashboard view (the same rows the visit totals use)
• Imported history without pageview detail is not split into buckets

“Rows” are database rows written, which is what our hosting is billed on. Reads are not rows written. Methodology →