What is a session?
A session is a group of interactions by one visitor within a time window, usually ending after about 30 minutes of inactivity.
What is a session?
Cookie-based analytics group a visitor's page views into sessions. A session starts with the first page view and ends after a period of inactivity or at midnight, depending on the tool.
Sessions make metrics such as bounce rate, session duration and pages per session possible. They require an identifier that links page views together.
Why Session matters
- Sessions describe visits, not just individual page loads.
- They are the base for engagement metrics.
Practical tips
- Check how your tool defines a session before comparing numbers.
- For simple traffic questions, pageviews and visitors are often enough.
Session in Noralytic
Noralytic does not use sessions, because linking page views together would require tracking. You get pageviews, visitors and pages per visitor instead.
Frequently asked questions
What is a session?
A session is a group of interactions by one visitor within a time window, usually ending after about 30 minutes of inactivity.
Can you measure sessions without cookies?
Not reliably. Some tools approximate sessions with short-lived hashes, but fully cookieless and anonymous tools usually do not report sessions.
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