Comments on: Bounce Rates

By: liaqat

liaqat — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:26:03 +0000

32.82% is just amazing mate
i find it difficult to keep that low, mine is 47.35% at the moment
i am using multiple pages per post to make it less but no use

By: Cheap DVDs

Cheap DVDs — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:15:29 +0000

My fairly new site, Cheap UK DVDs has a bounce rate of 54%, so would just fall into your ‘Cause for concern’ category.

However, it’s a fairly new site so it’s mainly new visitors. Give it a year and it’ll have more return visitors and they’ll improve the bounce rate.

Also, the purpose of the site is to compare DVD prices and allow visitors to then go to the cheapest retailer to buy, so I do expect a higher bounce rate than if I wanted to keep them on my site.

But it is something I’ll keep an eye on, and could be particularly useful when doing something like changing the site layout to see how it goes down with users and if it’s an improvement or not.

By: Richard Young

Richard Young — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:32:51 +0000

Aug 2, 2010 – Sep 1, 2010

6,311 Visits
126,372 Pageviews
20.02 Pages/Visit
00:05:20 Avg. Time on Site
67.49% % New Visits
15.24% Bounce Rate

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:39:26 +0000

Is there such a thing as too low a bounce rate? Our site is sitting at 9.14% after about a week of being on GA. It’s a drupal site, if that makes a difference.

By: Phill

Phill — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:45:51 +0000

I just checked mine and my home page has a bounce rate of 19.18%

If it wasn’t for this article I would have thought that was a bad thing. Thanks!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:01:42 +0000

Thanks for the helpful explanation.

We have a “personality” website we post to daily, mostly for fun and to keep our humor writing, cartooning, and photo skills in shape. Topics range across the spectrum of whatever we found interesting that day. Still, it’s interesting to see what topics and medium were most compelling. And no surprise, looking at bounce rate shows that topics that are part of a thematic thread or are completely unique to our site have the lowest bounce rate.

For instance, I crocheted a hat last week in honor of Alexandre Bilodeau’s Olympic gold medal for Canada and blogged on it, titling it “In Honor of Gold, I’m Making A Bobbled Bilodeau.” Three days later, we posted “Bobbled Bilodeau Update,” and guess what? A bounce rate of zero.

Thanks again for enlightening!

Ciao, Kathy

By: Jens P. Berget

Jens P. Berget — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:56:38 +0000

I have been struggling with too high bounce rate for a while, it’s been as high as an average of 88%.

Even though I don’t know how much bounce rate is good enough, I am aiming at 50%.

I have added a few extra features to my blog, like links in my sidebar to “the best of my writing”. I have also been editing my navigation and internal linking structure.

-jens-

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By: Kym Herbert

Kym Herbert — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:16:07 +0000

For our clients the main cause of high bounce rates is, miss communication from the marketing team.

If visitors arrive at your site expecting one thing and instead get another, they leave.

Simple.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:43:02 +0000

Brilliant post.
I have a serious issue in my office, as the head of publishing tells everyone that 55% is a very healthy bounce rate. This is an atrocity to hear, but nobody else in the company seems to be shocked. How could I open the eyes of everyone without putting myself in trouble?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:48:41 +0000

Can anyone explain to me the difference between bounce and exit? I have a bounce of 100% on some pages but with an exit of 15% Surely if someone bounces they exit? Or am I just being thick!?