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Some indicative data from IWM collections, but I don’t know how well it answers your question …

For the segment of people who perform search in our collections:

Desktop / Tablet / Mobile

Pages per session: 24.2 / 21.2 / 13.3

Avg session duration: 15:21 / 11:58 / 7:30

For the segment of people who used one of our facet links:

Desktop / Tablet / Mobile

Pages per session: 19.3 / 14.61 / 8.81

Avg session duration: 12:42 / 8:29 / 5:14

So any way you cut it this suggest that desktop visitors do about twice as much as mobile visitors.

But then you have to ask if that’s down to the design and experience, or the type of users and their behaviour? For example I can see that there is a huge skew towards repeat visitors being on desktop (itself possibly related, but I’m *guessing* predominantly more academic or professional researchers) so if true, that is likely to be a big factor in these results.

Cheers, James

From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Blume
Sent: 01 June 2017 15:52
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Subject: Collections exploration: small screen v big screen

Hi MCG List

I'm wondering if anyone had any stats they are willing to share.

The area I am interesting is the use of mobile v tablet v desktop/laptop for users viewing collections information.

I’m not so intersted in how users view visiting info, or ticket prices, or travel arrangements, but how they actually browse collections, save artefacts to Favourites folders, follow metadata links between artefacts, that sort of thing.

Plainly stated: how much collections exploration is done on a small screen v a big screen?

Cheers, Phil

Phil Blume

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