Why is it that I get people going to my website for 0 seconds. I mean is that possible? Or is there a little bit of a lag. Obviously I need a better website. I have a website with 30% bounce rate and this one has 80%. But seriously 0 seconds did not know if that is possible.
Yeah, I don't know exactly how accurate those stats are in Google Analytics. I have often had several sales on sites that they claimed had 100% Bounce Rate for that day and zero Time on Site.
I also noticed while loading my website google analytics is the last thing to load on my website. So maybe that explains the lag. But thanks for that info.
Same has been encountered with me in my website analytics, I really don't know how can one visit a page in 0 sec. Might be Google track the time by visitors activities, if someone just close the page without making any activity on the page(Google starts tracking time once the analytics code execute on the page), Google consider the time as 0 sec...
Remember if a visitor comes to site and leaves without visiting any other page then this is considered as 0 time. if he also navigates to other page then the time between his first visited page and last clicked page is considered the visit time .
M not agree with you on this point. what if I am reading a article on a blog and leave from the same page after reading the full article(it might take some 15-20 min for me for complete reading), then what you think my visit time will be shown 0 sec... I really don't think so..
I am talking from Google and programming point of view. If you take 15-20 minutes to read an article how will Google know that you have been reading for 15 minutes. When you will navigate to other page then Google analytical script will be able to calculate that the visitor is still on the site for 15 minutes.
I see 100% bounce rate on some of mine, i think the themes/templates may be enough to cause that, will be changing them soon, i guess if someone clicks the back button, as i do myself before some pages even finish loading its maybe possible to not register any time spent on the site.
Recently I had a clickbank sale from an organic search listing . I had only 1 visitor that day for that keyword. According to GA, the time on site showed as 00.00.00 !!
Plus, let's not forget that sometimes high bounce rates are only an indication that the visitor found what they were looking for on the landing page. If a user stays on only the landing page for less than 29 minutes, it counts as a bounce!
The time on site is a guideline only. Having 0 seconds would reflect a homepage that either doesn't load quickly or is a one page site with many links off of it.