We all talk about bounce rates, but it seems that many people don’t fully understand what a bounce is. Simply put, a bounce is a one-page visit.
It doesn’t matter which page it is, how long the visitor spends on the page they visit, or if they click on a link on that page which leads them to a different site. It doesn’t matter if they come to you via a search engine or type in your URL. What matters is that they only visit one page before the specified session-timeout occurs.
If you’d like to learn more, Wikipedia has detailed formulas for calculating bounce rates, and Google has tips for improving them.
24 July 2015 10:00