How can any day have 100% bounce rate?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by Seriously, May 5, 2011.

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    Hi,

    after reading posts on analytics bounce rate I decide to check mine and for Sunday May 1 it says that I had 100% bounce rate. While my site doesnt get hundreds of hits a day, the ones it did get on that day were from a few unique visitors.

    Do stats like this suggest to you that GA may occasionally be in error?

    I am thinking that after I clicked on the webmaster tools button at the GA page bottom that this might provide some of the missing information that GA does not provide, such as how many visitors I got out of the total impressions, just like an adwords account allows you to see.

    Does anyone know of any other tricks that webmaster can give you and if you find it worth while
     
    Seriously, May 5, 2011 IP
  2. Miroslav Chodak

    Miroslav Chodak Active Member

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    #2
    100% bounce rate means that those few visitors you had that day went all away, without viewing any other pages on your site. GA is not perfect, but pretty close. Also, bounce rate has nothing to do with hits. It's all about visitors.
     
    Miroslav Chodak, May 5, 2011 IP
  3. balivillaholidays

    balivillaholidays Peon

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    I heard this kind of cases are caused by spam bots visiting your site and leaving fast while your analytics track them anyways.
     
    balivillaholidays, May 5, 2011 IP
  4. JonasProductions

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    not possible for 100%
     
    JonasProductions, May 5, 2011 IP
  5. etc

    etc Well-Known Member

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    but then it shouldn't display 100%.
    its like no one visits at all :D
     
    etc, May 5, 2011 IP
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    100% Traffic its not possible...
     
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  7. Seriously

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    I can assure you that for my dog walking site, that on 1 May I got 100% bounce. on the day before I got 63% and on the day after 79%. So for some bizarre reason these Sunday visitors all decided not to browse the rest of the site. Anyway, I have since verified my code for webmaster tools and have read that this also will most likely show different data than GA. Be good to get an idea of how different this is soon.
     
    Seriously, May 5, 2011 IP