# Read time metrics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-metrics/89916
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-metrics/89916 "2018-06-14T20:05:47Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-metrics/89916/30 "2019-07-11T01:52:53Z")

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`time_read` does not include the time a user may have spent reading emails sent from the site. Its value is calculated based on the amount of time the user has spent with topics open on the screen. See [How does post tracking work in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-post-tracking-work-in-discourse/115790) for details about how the time is calculated.

> [@kimardenmiller](#):
>
> Finally, in trying to examine the client API I’m looking at the dashboard user visits, but can’t get the urls to work for me

You can make API requests to get specific reports. For example, this request works for the User Visits report:

```plaintext
curl -X GET "https://forum.example.com/admin/reports/visits.json?end_date=2019-07-10&start_date=2019-06-10" \
-H "Api-Username: system" \
-H "Api-Key: $api_key" -H \
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data;"

```

Making requests to the `/admin/reports/bulk.json` endpoint should work as well. You need to be sure that you add `.json` to the URL and that `start_date` and `end_date` query parameters are added to the URL.

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