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| Attention Span Statistics |
Data |
| The average attention span in 2015 |
8.25 seconds |
| The average attention span in 2000 |
12 seconds |
| The average attention span of a gold fish |
9 seconds |
| Percent of teens who forget major details of close friends and relatives |
25 % |
| Percent of people who forget their own birthdays from time to time |
7 % |
| Average number of times per hour an office worker checks their email inbox |
30 |
| Average length watched of a single internet video |
2.7 minutes |
| Internet Browsing Statistics (Taken from 59,573 page views) |
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| Percent of page views that last less than 4 seconds |
17 % |
| Percent of page views that lasted more than 10 minutes |
4 % |
| Percent of words read on web pages with 111 words or less |
49 % |
| Percent of words read on an average (593 words) web page |
28 % |
| Users spend only 4.4 seconds more for each additional 100 words |
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| Source: Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: “Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use,” in the ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2008), article #5. |
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Statistic Sources & References
Sources: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, The Associated Press
Content Author: Statistic Brain
Date research was conducted: July 2, 2016
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