What's your Bounce Rate? 04/24/2008
Was reading an interesting post by Seth Godin this morning about bounce rate called Silly Traffic. Google Analytics defines "bounce rate" as "the percentage of single-page visits". Which got me thinking -- what's our bounce rate? CommentsThu, 24 Apr 2008 9:11:32 am Our bounce rate to http://www.ok-cool.com/ is currently about 80% for our blog. I attribute this to the fact that our blog is, well, a bit random sometimes with regards to content. Also, we get a lot of traffic from SumbleUpon which potentially lends itself to delivering high bounce rates (because I'm likely just to click Stumble again). Steve Thu, 24 Apr 2008 9:38:26 am I run a site with about 8M pageviews/mo. My bounce rate is 66% this past 20 days. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 9:46:54 am We had a bounce rate of around 50% for http://www.learnsqlserver.com/ a while. I then refocused a few landing pages and bounce rate went to 43%. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:03 am My blog bounce rate (Google Analytics) is around 85%. Lots of traffic is from DZone. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 6:19:16 pm two sites I can account for: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 9:50:13 pm 72.42% bounce rate Wed, 02 Jul 2008 1:54:11 pm I was pleased to see that www.alastairhumphreys.com had a bounce rate of 80%. I was pleased that I had such a high number until I went away and learnt that actually a LOW number is what I want! Hey ho... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 8:00:14 am The bounce rate for my eco yoga mat e-commerce site is consistently around 35%. That number skyrocketed to 90% in one day of experimenting with one "questionable" AdWords buy. ;) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 4:25:56 am My bounce rate came down from 85% to 55%. What is a fair bounce rate, since I underatnd that anything above 30%, is still too high? Fri, 19 Sep 2008 1:05:58 pm At <a href="http://www.cbmaine.com">CBMaine.com</a> our bounce rate is 18.59%. But our site's traffic is focused due to it being a real estate business. I would actually like to add more content to draw more visitors (which would likely increase my bounce rate) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 6:56:04 am Our bounce rate is about 60% but I attribute that to posting on website design sites and places like here where people click to go see the site but are not potential purchasers. If you have a high bounce rate, look for some things that may be causing it. (Like where you post your links). Wed, 29 Oct 2008 2:04:48 am My bounce rate is 55% this past 15 days Thu, 30 Oct 2008 5:32:32 am Hi, Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:31:43 am After reading the other bounce rates, I don't fee so bad or sad. My site HortClassifieds.com has only been live 4-5 days and my bounce rate is getting lower every day. I'm around 70%. Average page view per visit is almost three and I really don't have anything for people to look at yet. I'm waiting for dealers to signup and post some ads and I know it will take time, but like another mentioned, I cahnged some of my landing pages and it has helped. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:37:03 am After reading the above I'm not so sad, and if this post twice I'm sorry. My site www.hortclassifieds.com has only been live 3-5 days and my page views per visit are almost three. My bounce rate goes down more everday and I dont really have any content yet, as i wait for dalers to signup. I know it will take time, but I feel better after reading this article. Thanks A Mon, 25 May 2009 9:50:24 am Some of your bounce rates from the people in the comments area is unbelivable. I get around 7% which I thought everybody got. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 2:47:47 pm Hi. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 4:47:41 am We have just started our online business selling Berlin Property, and I have been learning how to crack the google, and am intriged by "bounce rate" new to old visitors etc. I presume the higher quality your site is, the higher the return visitor rate will be, and whether viewer grant it enough power to deserve a second visit. Ps. I like you theme picture by the way - cool :-) Where is it? Comments are closed.
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