Actually the "Bounce Rate" of the Google Analytics shows the number of visitors after the your website then exit out from website by just visiting the index of home page of the website. Reduce your website bounce rate with the help of quality content and latest updates in form of products or services for the end users while navigating the website.
The lower the bounce rate, the better. In Google Analytics you can check the bounce rate of individual pages - useful for identifying a page in urgent need of repair/redevelopment!
Isn't a bounce rate of lower than 40% considered good.. i hear a lot of contradiction in regards to bounce rate percentages.
Bounce rate is a nice metric to measure and really... there is no correct number. It all depends on the nature of the site. If a person is looking for specific info on google and the go to your blog and they found that the information was what they where looking for... you WILL have a high bounce rate because they founf the info they wanted. but if you have a photo gallery website, most likley you will have a low one because the person will be browsing to see more pictures. depending on the traffic source and what your site is about and what part of your site they land the numbers will vary greatly. as my suggestion dont look at the numbers as a group try to segment your website for better goals on bounce rate... damn i should write a post about it xD
What does Bounce Rate mean? "Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality - a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy." Reference: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81986 As Google defines what a bounce rate is, I can add that a web page should be created with keyword relevancy of 70 to 100% in mind. If I were to search in Google for the keyword phase "Dog Breeding" and I come upon a site that talks about dog food and dog grooming, then I would leave that page in a heart beat, because it is irrelevant to me and I have no interest in that information which would trigger a bounce indicator on that site, because I did not stay on that page for long, hence I just bounce out of there in a flash. So after many minutes of searching for the keyword "Dog Breeding", I then come to a site that specifically talks about "How to breed dogs - The A to Z of Dog Breeding" - Guess what? I am on that page reading it and clicking through the site consuming all of its information about "Dog Breeding", which result in the site getting an indication of relevancy of the keyword phase "Dog Breeding". As far as what is the ideal bounce rate? In my opinion, the ideal bounce rate is zero percent, which obviously is close to impossible to achieve. However, bounce rates that fall between 40 to 50 percent is not bad at all. This is often achieved by good content organization, user-centric page layout and intuitive navigation. According to Google Analytics as of Apr 17, 2010 - my current bounce rate for my site is 9.21%, that is less than 10%. So to conclude, the ideal bounce rate should be around 35% or less. Hope that helps, Emanuel
bouncing rate means how many visitors visit your site and leave without doing any thing. The lower the rate is better. The bouncing rate for one of my site is 65-67%. It is time to redesign the site I think...
I have promoted my site for tenant loan since last 3 months. but i got 65% bounce rate can anybody tell me how can i maintain this
i did not know about the bounce rate.. so it is now clear to me..by the way: my bounce rate is 47%..is it good??
A bounce occurs when a web site visitor only views a single page on a website, that is, the visitor leaves a site without visiting any other pages before a specified session-timeout occurs
What is the cut-off time limit for google analytics counting a visit as a 'bounced' visit. Meaning if you have a website that has landing pages and they land on it... and then click BACK like 10 minutes later... is that going to go into your bounce count?
Bounce rate represents the percentage of initial visitors to the site who leap or you can say bounce to the other site.