I have a question about the popularity_by_hour field in Patterns: does this refer only to the hour of arrival for each visit?

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Hi, I have a question about the popularity_by_hour field in Patterns:
does this refer only to the hour of arrival for each visit?
eg. if a visit spans from 1:30pm to 4:30pm, does this only increment the count of visits between 1-2pm? Or does it also increment the counts for 2pm-3pm, 4pm-5pm?

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Hi @Ronan_Doorley, from the Places Manual:
> If a visitor stays for multiple hours, an item in the array will be incremented for each hour during which the visitor stayed. This means that if you sum the numbers in the popularity_by_hour array the sum will likely be greater than the amount shown in the raw_visit_counts column (since the raw_visit_counts counts a multiple hour visit as one visit).

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Thanks @Ryan_Kruse_MN_State