Total pause duration

The Total pause duration metric reports the cumulative seconds the viewer spent paused during a session. The metric is the sum of all intervals between each pause start event and the subsequent play event. Multiple pauses are added together. Pair with Pause events to derive the average pause length.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend sums the elapsed wall-clock time between every pause start event and the matching play event. The metric is reported on the close call. The value is shown as HH:MM:SS in Analysis Workspace and in seconds elsewhere.