How can we calculate average time spent on a particular page by a user

Hi @cherise - I looked at that community post and do not see the answer to the question.

This article is similar, but the answer doesn’t fully make sense: 

We want to track the average time users spend on a particular page in our app. It seems so simple, but I’m having trouble creating the report or finding the answer. Thank you for your help in advance!

This seems like a pretty basic requirement - is there an official answer as how to achieve this?

Also very much interested in the best approach 

@kirkn I used a very simple two step funnel. Step one, the page I wanted to see the lapsed time on and step two, the conversion event. So mine was on payment page → signed up. 

@kirkn hmm.I think you can try…. first event would be “on page (not sure the actual event would be for you)” and then the next step would “exit event”, OR a custom event, that includes all the possible next steps a user may take from that page. So you may create a custom event that captures all the possibilities such as, “exit”, “ClickedNext”, “LoggedOut”, and so on as your secondary step in the funnel. This would then allow you to see how long a person spent on the page before leaving.   

@Anthony Horta Thanks very much for suggesting Funnels for this! It’s taken me closer to what I need than any other approach. For the benefit of other people reading this, a couple of observations:

1. Mixpanel’s ‘Session End’ virtual event can’t be added to a Custom Event

2. Any two-step funnel with ‘Session End’ as the second step (and intermediary steps excluded) seems to have a conversion time of zero seconds

So you can see how long users spend on a page before doing something else, but not how long they spend on the page if the session ends without further events.