What's your bounce rate?

[sakshamthaker]

Mine is 31%. But i don't have website it's my blogs's Bounce Rate.

[highseo]

I think bounce rate is less than %30 in most cases.

[biscayne]

as my point of view, bounce rate is, visitor immediately exits our website is called bounce rate.......

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by biscayne

as my point of view, bounce rate is, visitor immediately exits our website is called bounce rate.......

The technical definition of a "bounce" is when the entry and exit pages are the same. I.e., the visitor viewed one page only.

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[soffiafrinche]

My bounce rate was 65-75%, it really does not improved ever since, I don't know what more ways to improve bounce rate, its really frustrating.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by soffiafrinche

My bounce rate was 65-75%, it really does not improved ever since, I don't know what more ways to improve bounce rate, its really frustrating.

Well, if you are willing and able to provide some information re. the site in question, you might start yout own thread, at Webmaster Forum > Web Development > Web Design Lobby > Web Usability, with a Title similar to "My bounce rate wouldn't budge - please help".

At the very least, we'll need to know the site's URL.

In order to do more than make some educated guesses, we'll also need some server log statistics for a sufficient time, including the following:

• Entry page(s) visits;
• Exit page(s) visits;
• Visits for all pages;
• Time-on-page for all pages.

And, of course, we'll need to know the bounce rate, where available, for each Entry page.

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[pliam]

It is a term used in a web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the percentage of visitors to the site.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by pliam

It is a term used in a web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the percentage of visitors to the site.

"... percentage of visitors to the site" that are/have been/do/did what?

Bounce rate is percentage of visitors to the site

A "bounce" is when the entry and exit pages are the same; i.e., the visitor viewed one page only.

The "bounce rate" is the percentage of visitors who viewed one page only.

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[deepsand]

Originally Posted by goyourside

I'm really lost on bounce rate. I assume it means leaves your index/home page for another site.

The technical definition of a "bounce" is when the entry and exit pages are the same. I.e., the visitor viewed one page only.

It makes no difference whether they entered via the home page or some other page.

It also makes no difference whether or not they went off to another site. In fact, what they did outside of those pages on your site which have the necessary analytic code cannot be determined, with one exception; if they did visit other pages on your site that do no have said code, you can glean that information from your server logs, which will show all requests and the IP Addresses from which they were made.

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[Leonardo]

Hi,
Personally I think that you should not worry about bounce rate you just need to focus that peoples come on to your page and making other things good (content,designs and layouts e.t.c) they will stay for a long time and so automatically your bounce rate will be lowered down.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by nagaraju_spark

I have to disagree.

For example, that page. I visited that page, and no others. That would be considered a bounce. But the reason I didn't visit any other pages is because I got the information I was looking for on that page.

That you disagree with the definition of a bounce is irrelevant to what the term means.

Now, if you read my posts, you will find that what you cite is indeed two of the reasons cited by me as to why a high bounce rate is not necessarily bad.

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[deepsand]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

Personally I think that you should not worry about bounce rate you just need to focus that peoples come on to your page and making other things good (content,designs and layouts e.t.c) they will stay for a long time and so automatically your bounce rate will be lowered down.

So, don't try to figure out if there's a problem, and if there is, how it might be solved; just ignore it, do other "stuff," and all will be well?

Yeah, that'll work.

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[thebitbotdotcom]

My understanding is that a high bounce rate is due to low relevancy with respect to the search term that your site was found through. For example, if a searcher searches for "blue widgets" specifically, and you site is about "green widgets" but you optimized for "blue widgets" because it receives more traffic, then your visitors will "bounce" because you advertised for the term "blue widgets" when it is really about "green widgets". This is just once scenario.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom

My understanding is that a high bounce rate is due to low relevancy with respect to the search term that your site was found through.

There is no single reason; and, not all are bad.

See http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...ml#post1422933 .

PS: In the future, you might want to read the thread before posting, so as to avoid making misstatements.

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[soniqhost]

I think its the type of site, some people may find what they are looking for on the page that they land on and leave

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by soniqhost.com

I think its the type of site, some people may find what they are looking for on the page that they land on and leave

Quite correct.

Take, for example, a single page site. Regardless of how many find what they seek, the bounce rate will be 100%.

Now, add a 2nd page, with a link to it on the 1st with anchor text that is wholly unrelated to the content of the 1st. Some visitors may, out of simple curiosity, follow that link, thereby reducing the bounce rate below 100%.

But, such decrease in the bounce rate tells us absolutely nothing with regards to how many found the 1st page to be useful, as, regardless of how many visited the 2nd page, all had to have first view the 1st.

This should serve to highlight the fact that a bounce rate, in and of itself alone, tells us exceedingly little about the visitors' experience regarding the landing page.

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[outsourcingrbts]

My site is a web design site.Average visitor of the site is 20.I want to increase my visitor.can anybody help me?

[europeanbob]

Use A/B testing to reduce your bounce rate. I use www.unbounce.co.uk ... it's a free to use service that let's you build and test landing pages using multiple variants.

With trial and error you can make changes that reduce your bounce rate.

[bizchickblogs]

Bounce rate is not always relevant. It really depends on what your goals are. Yes it's taken into "consideration" but if your goal is to get people to click-through to something else, you've been successful and that's fine.

For example, I run an electronics review site and my ultimate goal is to kick people over to Amazon, so I'm happy if they come to the site and click away immediately. That would be considered high bounce rate (since they only ever visit a single page, well, sometimes, and other times they click around for awhile).

So I would balance your bounce rate against outbound links because it still counts as a bounce if they click on an external link.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by outsourcingrbts

My site is a web design site.Average visitor of the site is 20. I want to increase my visitor. can anybody help me?

Presumably you are saying that you are getting 20 visits per day/week/month.

As that's a matter quite separate from bounce rate, you should start your own separate thread asking for advice.

If you do, be sure to provide the URL of the site in question, so that people can review it, as is necessary in order for anyone to offer suggestions that are relevant to you.

Originally Posted by europeanbob

Use A/B testing to reduce your bounce rate. I use www.unbounce.co.uk ... it's a free to use service that let's you build and test landing pages using multiple variants.

With trial and error you can make changes that reduce your bounce rate.

Of what use if ones high bounce rate is indicative of success?

Originally Posted by bizchickblogs

Bounce rate is not always relevant. It really depends on what your goals are. Yes it's taken into "consideration" but if your goal is to get people to click-through to something else, you've been successful and that's fine.

For example, I run an electronics review site and my ultimate goal is to kick people over to Amazon, so I'm happy if they come to the site and click away immediately. That would be considered high bounce rate (since they only ever visit a single page, well, sometimes, and other times they click around for awhile).

So I would balance your bounce rate against outbound links because it still counts as a bounce if they click on an external link.

This is a point well lost on many. They fail to understand that a high bounce rate may very well owe to many promptly heeding a call to action which leads them off-site.

In such cases, it may be useful to insert an on-site interstitial page that uses a fast (Delay = 0) Meta Refresh to automatically forward them to the target, thus providing an easy method of determining one true bounce rate as well as in-house stats on forwarded traffic.

SEs use interstitial pages for capturing traffic from clicks on SERP listings, along with billing information for clicks on Sponsored listings.

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