Thread: Google Analytics and Bounce Rate

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.

A bounce is when a user comes to your site, and goes to another page.

You want your bounce rate to be as low as possible.

If you have a 100% bounce rate, it means users come to your site, and leave. If it is an 80% bounce rate, it means 20% of your users visit another page, and 80% only visit 1 page.

There is a certain time limit for a visit to be considered a bounce. Of course if length of visit is 0 secs it is clearly a bounce.

According to Google "Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.
High bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert."

Landing page is important. The page that your visitors see first needs to load fast, look good, and have all of the compelling information that interests them easily accessible without too many clicks. A person decides whether or not they like your website within seconds of arriving. You can keep a really low bounce rate if your landing page is effective and well laid out.

Bounce rate depends on the time that is spent by a visitor on a particular website. The lowest bounce rate indicates that the visitor has spent more time on the site and viceversa.

Does anyone know how many seconds it take for a visitor to stay on your site and will not be considered as a bounce?

It's also worth noting that %Exit is the percentage of people who completely closed their browser on your page. A lot of times you can count on some of that being subtracted from the bounce rate since they might have had things to attend to in real life (being late for example).

That's my philosophy anyway. Either way, you want a low bounce rate. Especially on keywords that you pay for.

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if your site bounce rate is high that means users comes to your site and leave it, for reduce the bounce rate you need to increase the quality of site, and for that you need to reduce the loading time of site because no one like to wait, and informative content will help you reduce the bounce rate.