Thread: Bounce rate

What is bounce rate & how it reduces ?

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. A high bounce rate suggests that more and more visitors are finding your website slow, irrelevant or unappealing.

If your bounce rate exceeds 50%, you must:
- Avoid having too many ads and hyper attractive banners on your site. They interfere with site navigation and make visitors ‘ad blind’.
- Make site navigation as easy as possible.
- Cut back your main page down to essentials.
- Make sure you install the analytics code on all the pages of your website.
- Include quality content and highlight your best posts above the fold.
- Write a tag-line or blurb for your main page.
- Add polls to get visitor’s opinions & keep them busy
- Make your site easy on the eye with mild graphics and layout

well optimized landing pages, right content and right choice of keywords wil help you reduced your site bounce rate

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It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and "bounce" (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.

Bounce rate is a very important metric for website owners. It basically tells you what percentage of your visitors are “bouncing” away after landing on your site . A bounce can occur for several reasons. Like:

• The visitor hit the “Back” button on his browser.
• The visitor closed his browser.
• The visitor clicked on one of your ads.
• The visitor clicked on one of your external links.
• The visitor used the search box on his browser.
• The visitor typed a new URL on his browser.

Originally Posted by M Becky

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. A high bounce rate suggests that more and more visitors are finding your website slow, irrelevant or unappealing.

If your bounce rate exceeds 50%, you must:
- Avoid having too many ads and hyper attractive banners on your site. They interfere with site navigation and make visitors ‘ad blind’.
- Make site navigation as easy as possible.
- Cut back your main page down to essentials.
- Make sure you install the analytics code on all the pages of your website.
- Include quality content and highlight your best posts above the fold.
- Write a tag-line or blurb for your main page.
- Add polls to get visitor’s opinions & keep them busy
- Make your site easy on the eye with mild graphics and layout

thanks for the very informative post