I've got Google Analytics completely functional for my site right now, but I'm curious what Google considers a "bounce." I have the tracking code on most of my pages, but I do not have it on my "confirmation page" that you are taken to right after you submit a form. Will Google view a submitted form, and the subsequent redirection to this confirmation page a bounce since it does not have the analytics code? Or is Google smart enough to know that it is still part of the same domain and realize that the user did not leave the domain? Thanks in advance.
Thank you for the reply. I understand that an immediate close would be a bounce, but I have visited my site and stayed on one page for an extended period of time, and even that has come up as a bounce (if I did not visit any other pages). So, if someone were to quickly fill out a form on the first page they land on, could that be considered a bounce too?
it counts as a bounce if they dont visit any other page except the landing page - it has nothing to do with time on the site.
And that's what I was thinking, so if the next page that they get sent to after submitting a form doesn't have the google analytics code, does google think that this is a site outside of my domain, and thus count it as a bounce?
Hey, I advise you to read my article where I spoke about Google analytics bounce rate and how I was able to get a 2.7% bounce rate with out trying. http://back-links.org/do-you-want-to-decrease-your-bounce-rate/
Thank you for the response, but I find that your article talks more about how to get the right people to your site and how to keep them there. That is all secondary to me right now. I need to be sure that what Google is interpreting as a bounce, is in fact a bounce before I can start analyzing the success of my site, at which point items that you have listed will be of use.
Bounce Rate (also called % Exit) is a term used in website traffic analysis. A Bounce occurs when a website visitor leaves a page or a site without visiting any other pages before a certain session timeout elapses. It is important to note that there is no standard minimum or maximum time limit a visitor must leave by in order for a bounce to occur. Rather, this is determined by the session timeout of the analytics tracking software. A commonly used session timeout value is 30 minutes. In this case, if a visitor views a page and leaves his browser idle for 31 minutes, they will register as a "Bounce". If they then continue to navigate after this delay, a new session will occur and the last page they view before exiting or timing out again will result in another "Bounce". Thus, it is important to note the dependency between bounces and sessions. -Bounce Rate
Right, it is solely a measure of how many people feel the need to explore your site further. Anything above 75% I consider to be a high bounce rate depending on the site and niche.
Yes the lower the bounce rate the better. Basically the lower the bounce rate the more people who are clicking on a different page after they visit the first page.
Few days back i was also thinking that bounce rate is increase in traffic but one buddy on dp told me that is the traffic which immediately run away from our sites
I was wondering too what is "bounce rate" since I get pretty high bounce rate. I guess I have to work on my site to lower it
If a visitor comes to your site and leaves it without spending a certain time in your site, it will be counted as bounce rate.
i have a problem with very high bounce rate! this have lead me to realise a flaw in the structure of my site!
Actually it has nothing to do with time, sorry to disagree. Blogs characteristically have high bounce rates because articles are long. A visitor could stay on your blog for hours and still be a 100% bounce. Why? Bounce is described as the visitor lands on a page and does not visit anymore pages on the site. So if you had a link page that only sent visits to other sites, that too, would have a high bounce rate. The latter is an example of high bounce rate NOT always being a bad thing. Regards, Home
A bounce rate is where a visitor lands on a page on your site and then leaves without viewing any other pages.