What's your bounce rate? - Page 15

seo_promotion · Share | #**281** (**permalink**) 02-24-2011, 02:44 AM

i have a bounce rate of 40%-50%. Bounce Rate should be 20%-30%

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runtheline · #**282** (**permalink**) 02-24-2011, 08:58 AM

Thanks for your wonderful post. Bounce rate means how much time a new visitors stays on your website.I have to websites which have bounce rate of 30%.

deepsand · #**283** (**permalink**) 02-24-2011, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by runtheline

Thanks for your wonderful post. Bounce rate means how much time a new visitors stays on your website.I have to websites which have bounce rate of 30%.

"How much time?" So, 30% means that the visitors spend 30% of their time on your page?

Please read the thread, or visit Bounce Rate, to learn what bounce rate really is.

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diyday · #**284** (**permalink**) 03-04-2011, 05:41 PM

According to Analytics, mine hovers around 69%. Which seems to jibe with what Statcounter is telling me: according to the latter, under Recent Visitor Activity, I'm getting A LOT of "0 second" visits.

deepsand · #**285** (**permalink**) 03-04-2011, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by diyday

According to Analytics, mine hovers around 69%. Which seems to jibe with what Statcounter is telling me: according to the latter, under Recent Visitor Activity, I'm getting A LOT of "0 second" visits.

By "0 second visits" do you refer to "time on page?"

Are these "0 second visits" happening on the landing page(s), internal pages, or both?

Does(do) your landing Page(pages) have a call-to-action that leads visitors to an off-site page?

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michaelclarke · #**286** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 03:41 AM

Your bounce rate is a term used in web site traffic analysis to represent the percentage of initial visitors who move on to a new web site, leaving yours. In a perfect world, you want that number to be as low as possible. The reason for this is that the lower your bounce rate is, the longe

deepsand · #**287** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by michaelclarke

Your bounce rate is a term used in web site traffic analysis to represent the percentage of initial visitors who move on to a new web site, leaving yours.

Well, is it not the case that 100% of your visitors eventually leave your site?

For the correct definition, see Bounce rate, where we read

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Bounce rate (sometimes confused with exit rate) is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and "bounce" (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.

The formula used to calculate bounce rate is:

Bounce rate = total number of visits viewing only one page / total number of visits

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Originally Posted by michaelclarke

In a perfect world, you want that number to be as low as possible.

Or, as high as possible.

Given a landing page which contains a call-to-action which leads the visitor to an off-site page, the ideal bounce rate would be 100%!

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dWhite · #**288** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 06:41 PM

My bounce rate is ~60%-70% on my blogs, which I deem normal as most of my blog articles do not require visitors to click "click here to read full article" on most of my posts.

deepsand · #**289** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 07:38 PM

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My bounce rate is ~60%-70% on my blogs, which I deem normal as most of my blog articles do not require visitors to click "click here to read full article" on most of my posts.

Yep.

A low bounce rate could very well signal that the landing page failed to fully meet the needs of the visitor, with the result that they poked around hoping to find what they wanted.

Bounce rate addiction is a terrible affliction to have.

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rakibaffiliate · #**290** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 07:47 PM

i got 80% bounce rate for my new site...i was scared but having read john scott's post i got relief...
thanks john.

vrdwebservices · #**291** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 07:51 PM

I have 16.8% bounce rate on google analytics, what's it?
Please tell me.

dWhite · #**292** (**permalink**) 03-05-2011, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by vrdwebservices

I have 16.8% bounce rate on google analytics, what's it?
Please tell me.

For information about bounce rate, what it is and how it's calculated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_rate

jatin22 · #**293** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 12:40 AM

mine is less than 20%,make your website presentable and simple and use images and stuff to keep your visitors attracted towards your website

lair360 · #**294** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 01:34 PM

For me, I don't even care about it. The only thing I care is quality articles and services for readers and clients. However, if they don't like what they see, then I can scrap it and improve it. So yeah... bounce rates is thrash in my ears. They are not useful...

synapsis · #**295** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:07 PM

I put together some tools to solve this issue or at least give you a better handle on understanding how you could correct some of them. Take a look yourself, there's a variety which gives you a decent ability to figure out what may or may not work for correcting that issue for you - [removed]

patrickz · #**296** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:16 PM

I agree that it depends on your goals. There is no optimum bounce rate that can be used as a measuring stick, but 0% is usually best, and 100% is usually worst.

nowinnofees · #**297** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:23 PM

well it depends, if you have adsense, then high bounce rate is good.. saying that people are clicking on ur ads..

synapsis · #**298** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by nowinnofees

well it depends, if you have adsense, then high bounce rate is good.. saying that people are clicking on ur ads..

That isn't true whatsoever. You don't want a high bounce rate at all under any given situation. People clicking on your ads translates into money. I can verify from past experience the higher the bounce rate you have, does not correlate with the amount of clicks your getting whatsoever.

deepsand · #**299** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by synapsis

I put together some tools to solve this issue or at least give you a better handle on understanding how you could correct some of them.

As is evident from this and related threads, far too many naively assume that a low rate is good, a high one bad, and/or that there is some sort of benchmark that they should be meeting.

Such assumptions are, of course, patently incorrect.

You might consider explaining how each of the cited tools can first aid in determining whether or not there really is a problem.

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synapsis · #**300** (**permalink**) 03-06-2011, 02:39 PM

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You might consider explaining how each of the cited tools can first aid in determining whether or not there really is a problem.

I appreciate the thought but I am not looking to write up a document as to how I can solve each and every signle problem using all of the tools which are on that page. Each of them have a link where anyone can do their own research and from there determine if that particular tool is going to help them out. I don't get paid to babysit or do other peoples research.