What Would Be a Good Bounce Rate and Length of Visit?

sashas · 08-30-2009, 03:49 PM

One of my blogs has an average bounce rate of 45% ever since it launched.

The length of each visit is around 3 minutes 35 seconds.

How healthy is this? From the kind of bounce rates and lengths of visit I get on my other blogs, it looks pretty solid to me, but a comparison with fellow warriors would be nice.

Wintermute · 08-30-2009, 04:01 PM

My site put online a week ago has a bounce rate of 48% and avg visit length of over nine minutes, total of 77 visits.

This seems ludicrous to me and I think it must be counting myself when I visit my own blog.

What does bounce rate mean by the way?

TheWealthSquad · 08-30-2009, 04:04 PM

According to Google Analytics

Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page). Bounce Rate is a measure of visit quality and a high Bounce Rate generally indicates that site entrance (landing) pages aren't relevant to your visitors. You can minimize Bounce Rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.

sashas · 08-30-2009, 04:20 PM

So..is 45% good or bad?

Wintermute · 08-30-2009, 04:59 PM

I would think it is horrible lol, so is mine. That is strange though, my site is about exactly what I say it is, although I have a boring semiologic theme, I think I will flash it up with a magazine theme or something.

hpgoodboy · 08-30-2009, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sashas

One of my blogs has an average bounce rate of 45% ever since it launched.

The length of each visit is around 3 minutes 35 seconds.

45% seems rather good. That means more than half of the people who land on your blog tend to like it. And the average time of over 3 minutes per visitor is actually very good.

Sure it can be improved like anything. But so far: very good.

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Wintermute Dreamin LiveWire VooDoo Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Seattle, Washington Posts: 62 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Re: What Would Be a Good Bounce Rate and Length of Visit? I would think it is horrible lol, so is mine. That is strange though, my site is about exactly what I say it is, although I have a boring semiologic theme, I think I will flash it up with a magazine theme or something.