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The Retention Diagnoser

Open YouTube Studio, pick one upload, and copy four numbers into this box. It tells you whether you have a packaging problem, a content problem, or a channel problem, in plain English, with the fix.

This tool needs JavaScript. The manual version: divide average view duration by video length. Under 15 percent on a long upload usually means packaging or an intro tax. The post to read is the retention graph guide.

Video length (minutes) The whole upload, as published.

Average view duration (minutes) Studio → Analytics → Engagement.

Click-through rate (%) Studio → Analytics → Reach. Blank if unknown.

Impressions How many times YouTube showed the thumbnail.

Where does the retention line fall hardest? Hover the audience retention graph and look.

Benchmarks here are working rules from church channels we have run and coached, not YouTube gospel. Judge your videos against your own videos of the same length first.

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