what is Bounce Rates in Google Analytics?

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    what is Bounce Rates in Google Analytics?

    how they calculate the Bounce Rates?

    What is the logic behind that?
     
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  2. Shellerz

    Shellerz Active Member

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    I think it counts as a bounce if a user spends less than 7 or 8 seconds on your site. I would assume its tracked by IP address. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    I reckon a decent bounce rate is under 40% - if you're over 60 I'd say you're probably targeting less relevant keywords - or maybe your site is under construction etc.
     
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    When someone goes to your web site and moves to another web site. Staying there for a few seconds and then clicking away.
     
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    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    It's the percentage of people visiting your website then leaving with out spending the average time on your site or even visiting any of your goals.
     
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    this totally depends on your niche and your source of traffic. if your site has a majority of direct traffic and return visitors, then the bounce rate should be less than 20%. if your traffic is from google organic searches, then 40% is about right. organic search traffic can be much higher if your site is optimized for words that don't match the content.
     
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    It's when a person comes to ONE page and that's it. It has nothing to do with how long they are there. It's the number of people who leave after visiting only ONE page.
     
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    If you open the keywords section in your analytics and take a look at the keywords that brought one visitor to your site. Take a look at the pages visited and the bounce rate. You will see that people visiting two are more pages will have 0 bounce rate where people visiting only one page have 100 bounce rate. I think that will clear up things a little bit :)
     
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    bounce : reach ur site and bounce without clicking or looking at another page ....
     
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    yea its a visit game of Few seconds.

    Generally peoples are trying to put more interesting content about Their Products for users so Bounce rates can be Decrease.


    Eric
     
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    Yup, if they din't visit more than one page, that is a bounce.
     
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    Its just a measurement of spending time of a visitor on your site.
    If a visitor leaves your page within 5 seconds after your page is fully loaded, the visit will be counted as bounced visit.
     
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    High bounce rate means the site must be horrible to site visitors and most likely they would never return again. They are not even interested to check other content of the site. First impression counts.
     
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    If visitor come at your webpage and don't spend time more than 8 seconds and close the browser windows or go back at search results. It is called bouncing from that page.............
     
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    bounce rate means out of total visitors, how many visitors close your website immediately
     
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    hehe, nice post, I need to know about this too, thank you all your guys who answer.
     
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    the lower the bounce rate you have, the longer your clients stay with your site.
     
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    If the visitor who arrives at your landing page (whether it is from SE, direct or referral) decides to browse to another page on your site, then it won't contribute towards bounce rate.

    For example, if let's say, there are 10 visitors to your site and 4 of them will leave soon after arriving at the landing page without navigating to other page on your site, then this is considered as 40% bounce rate.
     
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