Starting from the begining about a week ago my website went down because of issues with my host. Because of this i decided to move to a new host however since my current host was down i had to recrate the website from scratch. I now belive my website is more or less exactly as it was before but my bounce rate has gone from an average of 0.5%(with a single popup) up to 30% (without any popups.0 My page views have also gone from 60-80K daily down to 10-12K even though my unique visitors are about the same. Screen shots Visitors Page Views Bounce Rate Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find out whats causing this its getting to be a huge problem.
Have you done any design changes? Pageviews are directly connected with: 1. Usability of the site (if you have recently made some changes to the front end without testing sufficiently, the results can be negative) 2. Speed of host. If the host to which you moved is slower, this would result in slower page load. And page load seriously affects pageviews ratio. 3. Code - if your code is doing some loops and results in slower load, would surely kill the pageviews. p.s. having a bounce rate of 0.5% is impossible in my opinion. For the 7 years of experience in webmastering I have rarely seen cases with bounce rate with less than 10%. ..which is again, is very good...especially if your traffic comes from search engine. A bounce rate of 30% is generally good. My advice is to test the speed of your host and test the speed of your pageload. You mention that you rebuilt the site from scratch. Well you say its pretty much the same, but are you sure the load speed is the same? Hope this helps!
I agree with the post above. It has something to do with the speed of loading of any given page. I even removed some javascript code from my site because it had this one or two second delay before it would allow the whole page to upload.
The page load time has actually increased since moving it to the new host. also the page is exactly the same and infact has the single popup i used to have removed.