i cannot proof it, but i think site metrics like time on site play a secondary role on smaller sites, i guess google also needs to take care about their energy consumption and so decided to scale down analytics , at least if you are not engaged voluntary within their site analytics services . i never participated in their analytics program and i had sites that went totally bonkers due to ssl errors in chrome for several month while they worked fine in firefox...and site metrics should have been terrible because chrome users couldn see the content of my site, but they didnt loose any positions, thats why i come to that conclusion. there are only 2 ways to explain this: 1. much less people then is told are using chrome , or 2. they do not rank, measure via site metrics for sites that do not participate voluntary within their analytics program.
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