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title: Session Depth Assessment
description: Estimate your single-page rate, multi-page share and session-depth distribution from monthly pageviews and sessions — benchmarked against a continuously measured publisher panel.
url: https://preview.artificialpoets.com/resources/session-depth-assessment/
site: Artificial Poets
type: a13s_content
date: 2026-08-09T20:37:16+00:00
modified: 2026-08-18T03:10:49+00:00
image: https://preview.artificialpoets.com/wp-content/uploads/a13s-cards/1533-social-76e7f658.png
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# Session Depth Assessment

Two numbers from your analytics place your single-page rate and depth distribution against a continuously measured publisher panel.

**Free tool**

## How deep do your sessions go?

Two numbers from your analytics place you against a continuously measured publisher panel. Runs in your browser; nothing you type is stored or sent.

Interactive tool. It takes monthly pageviews, monthly sessions and optionally the publisher's own multi-page session share, and returns their pages per session, single-page rate, estimated depth distribution (2+, 3+ and 5+ articles) and their placement against a continuously measured publisher panel. The arithmetic runs in the browser; nothing entered is transmitted or stored.

| Band | Multi-page session share | Reading |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Healthy | 12% and above | Top of the measured panel, pre-intervention |
 | Typical | 9 to 12% | Where most measured titles sit |
 | At-risk | Under 9% | Bottom of the panel; erosion compounds from here |

Multi-page session share is sessions with more than one pageview, divided by sessions. When it is not supplied it is estimated as (pages per session minus one) divided by 1.7, the relationship observed on the panel where multi-page sessions average about 2.7 pageviews. Depth extrapolation uses the panel's distinct-article-path ratios: sessions reaching 3 or more articles run about 31% of the 2-or-more population, and 5 or more about 6.5% of it. Those are two different definitions in the same benchmark, so the estimates are directional and the tool says so.

The comparison also reports what the panel measured over nine months on titles where nothing changed: multi-page share fell 16%, sessions reaching 3 or more fell 22%, and mobile fell 23%. Against that, enabled titles rose 29% (desktop) to 63% (largest single title), with the portfolio average at 46%.

## Why the drift line matters more than the bands

Two groups of titles in one company, one category, one audience, moving in opposite directions after one thing changed on two of them.

## Nine months, same portfolio, one change

Measured on titles where nothing changed, against the titles that enabled the Platform, over identical weeks.

| Measure | Unchanged | Enabled |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Multi-page share | -16% | +46% |
 | Sessions reaching 3+ | -22% | +91% |
 | Sessions reaching 5+ | -17% | +221% |
 | Mobile multi-page share | -23% | +48% |

- Unchanged: Titles with no redesign, no strategy shift, no new products across the nine-month series.
- Enabled: Titles running the Artificial Poets Platform from 18 December 2025.

The panel is a portfolio of special-interest consumer titles measured event-level and continuously from August 2025 through May 2026, counting distinct article paths per session to avoid auto-load inflation. Pre-intervention, multi-page share ran 8.6% to 12.3% across every title: roughly nine sessions in ten end on the page they started on, and on titles where nothing changed it got worse at every depth. Definitions, windows and the self-benchmark worksheet are in the [Publisher Session Depth Benchmark](/resources/session-depth-benchmark/).

## You just estimated. Want it measured?

Every tool here approximates. In twenty minutes on your analytics we compute the real distribution: your single-page rate, your depth by device and channel. No deck.

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