What is Dwell Time in SEO?

[stacyrose]

From Source we come to know the definition for 'dwell time' is as follows:
Google pays very close attention to “dwell time”: how long people spend on your page when coming from a Google search. This is also sometimes referred to as “long clicks vs short clicks”. If people spend a lot of time on your site, that may be used as a quality signal.

We should keep the users on your web page more time it is possible with quality content and useful website information to the user.

 

[ritikamehra]

Dwell time is one of the easier confused terms in SEO industry when discussing dwell time people often seem to be talking about time onpage instead.

 

[arsalan1101]

Dwell time is a metric that calculates user engagement, session duration, and SERP CTRs. It is a data point that is not publicly available (or thoroughly understood), but is nonetheless a factor that affects a site’s search engine results.

 

[stevy]

I think it is better if you track the time on page and bounce rate . You optimize for it and will get more engagement from customers

 

[iMaxTechnologies]

Dwell time, in a sense, is an amalgam of bounce rate and time-on-site metrics – it measures how long it takes for someone to return to a SERP after clicking on a result

 

[anusers13]

dwell time means it will check the users engagement and session duration