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 media.pauseStart and the subsequent media.play. 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 media.pauseStart and the matching media.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.