What is dwell time?

time spent in the same position

Hello,
The time between those two clicks – that 7 minutes and 10 seconds – is my dwell time. As you can imagine, longer dwell times are better for business. The more time a visitor spends on a page, the more likely they are to have read and understood your content.

Dwell time may refer to: Dwell time (information retrieval), a relevance indicator measuring the time the user remains at a search result after a click. Dwell time (military), time service members spend in home station between deployments to war zones, or to dependent restricted tours.

Dwell Time is the amount of time that a Google searcher spends on a page from the search results before returning back to the SERPs. Many SEO professionals consider Dwell Time an important Google ranking signal.