Comments on: What am I going to do with those High Website Bounce Rates? http://venetsian.com/what-am-i-going-to-do-with-those-high-website-bounce-rates/ SEO Expert, Web Enterpreneur, Online Publishing Specialist Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phone TV Internet http://venetsian.com/what-am-i-going-to-do-with-those-high-website-bounce-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Phone TV Internet Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:40:49 +0000 http://venetsian.com/?p=35#comment-132 While reading this I realized blogs will really suffer from this. When most people visit a blog they read the post, and often times do gain valuable information, and no further action is required. I think analytic programs should look beyond bounce rate, and find some way of figuring out how long a visitor stays on one page. I'm not sure exactly how G calculates this, but I use GetClicky, and I'm sure GA is similar. Even if a visitor stays on a page for say 30 minutes, if the visitor does not click through to an inner page it is a bounce. This kind of information is misleading at best. There has to be a better solution. While reading this I realized blogs will really suffer from this. When most people visit a blog they read the post, and often times do gain valuable information, and no further action is required.

I think analytic programs should look beyond bounce rate, and find some way of figuring out how long a visitor stays on one page. I’m not sure exactly how G calculates this, but I use GetClicky, and I’m sure GA is similar. Even if a visitor stays on a page for say 30 minutes, if the visitor does not click through to an inner page it is a bounce.

This kind of information is misleading at best. There has to be a better solution.

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