How does Firebase Analytics define a session?

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Todd Kerpelman picture Todd Kerpelman · Dec 8, 2016 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

Firebase Analytics has a number of stats around "Sessions" (like "Sessions per user" and "Average session length"), but how exactly does Firebase Analytics define a session?

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Todd Kerpelman picture Todd Kerpelman · Dec 8, 2016

And I'll answer my question by saying that Firebase Analytics defines a session as a user engaging with your app for a minimum amount of time (10 seconds by default) followed by your user not engaging with your app for a certain amount of time (30 minutes by default). But you can change those times if you'd like something different.

So if a user starts using your app, switches to messaging to send a message, goes back to your app, switches to messaging again to send a quick selfie, then goes back to your app, that's all considered just one session.

Similarly if a user accidentally taps on your app icon and then quickly switches away to open up the app they actually meant to open, that won't get recorded as a session.

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