across complete interactions, which represent all of a unique visitor's sessions with one article on a cellphone
Supplementary notes
The source provides the following information about the methodology: "These data are taken from content analysis of a random sample of 17% of articles 1,000 words or longer, resulting in 3,118 articles. The sports topic was removed from this chart because it contained just one article longer than 5,000 words."
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Time spent with mobile news articles in the U.S. 2015, by topic
The statistic gives information on the average time engaged with news articles on a smartphone in the United States as of September 2015, sorted by article topic and length. According to the source, crime articles which were 5,000 words or more in length were read for an average of 490 seconds.
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Pew Research Center. (May 5, 2016). Average time engaged with news articles on a smartphone in the United States as of September 2015, by news topic and article length (in seconds) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved August 02, 2026, from /statistics/674335/mobile-news-articles-time-engaged-by-topic/
Pew Research Center. "Average time engaged with news articles on a smartphone in the United States as of September 2015, by news topic and article length (in seconds)." Chart. May 5, 2016. ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Accessed August 02, 2026. /statistics/674335/mobile-news-articles-time-engaged-by-topic/
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Pew Research Center. "Average Time Engaged with News Articles on a Smartphone in The United States as of September 2015, by News Topic and Article Length (in Seconds)." ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Inc., 5 May 2016, /statistics/674335/mobile-news-articles-time-engaged-by-topic/
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Average time engaged with news articles on a smartphone in the United States as of September 2015, by news topic and article length (in seconds) [Graph], Pew Research Center, May 5, 2016. [Online]. Available: /statistics/674335/mobile-news-articles-time-engaged-by-topic/
