Real Numbers: How Much Engagement Does a Tour Get?
1 minute 13 seconds average, against a few seconds for a static photo.
Case Studies and ROI · 9 August 2026 · 2 min read
Written by the Biztour team - Google Trusted Photographers since 2013.
It's a fair question to ask for actual numbers rather than a general promise, so here's the clearest real data point available: the Roundhouse's enhanced Google virtual tour averaged 1 minute 13 seconds of engagement per session, sustained over its first 6 years and thousands of unique and repeat users.
- 1 minute 13 seconds average session time, sustained over its first 6 years
- Compared against a few seconds of attention a typical static listing photo receives
- Enhanced tours report their own hotspot interaction and time-spent data directly
- Google Business Profile Insights separately reports photo and tour view counts
The number, and why it's the right benchmark
1 minute 13 seconds doesn't sound dramatic in isolation, until it's compared to how long anyone actually spends looking at a single static photo on a listing, typically a few seconds at most before scrolling on. That gap, roughly twentyfold, is the real, honest measure of what a tour changes versus a photo gallery alone.
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Where this number comes from, and how to see your own
This is the Roundhouse's own enhanced tour reporting, averaged over its first 6 years and thousands of sessions, not a projection or an industry estimate. Your own enhanced tour reports the same kind of data, hotspot interactions and time spent, and your Google Business Profile separately reports photo and tour view counts in its Insights panel, both genuinely available to you.
What a smaller business should expect
The Roundhouse is an unusually large, content-rich venue across three floors, which is part of why its engagement time sits where it does. A smaller single-space business will see shorter sessions, proportionate to how much there genuinely is to explore, but the same underlying mechanism, more time spent than a static photo would ever hold, applies regardless of scale.
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Questions people ask
Is 1 minute 13 seconds typical, or is the Roundhouse unusually strong?
The Roundhouse is a large, content-rich venue, so its numbers sit toward the higher end. It's the clearest publicly citable example we have, not a universal average across every tour we've shot.
How can I see this data for my own tour?
Enhanced tours report hotspot interactions and time spent directly; ask us for this reporting if it isn't already part of what you're receiving. Google Business Profile Insights separately reports photo and tour views.
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