3.5% bounce rate... what to do?

by Kikos

Posted: 12 years ago 9 replies

3.5% bounce rate
nobody leaving/clicking on ads
too interesting articles?
what to do?

#35% #bounce #rate

cagliostro 12 years ago

How old is the website ?

3.5% is very-very low bounce rate, i have never seen that (the lowest in my small empire is 29%).

Is that a Blog, Forums or something special ?

Give us some information and maybe we can help ...
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caseycase 12 years ago

Hey Kikos, there almost has to be something wrong with your stats. There is just no way you have a 3.5% bounce rate. Where is your traffic coming from?
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Daniel Wilson 12 years ago

You probably have Analytics code posted in your code 2 times. Check out, this is often the cause of fake bounce rate.
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- Kikos 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson
  
  You probably have Analytics code posted in your code 2 times. Check out, this is often the cause of fake bounce rate.
  
  Hi my websites uses the wordpress platform and I looked in the source of a random article and I DO see 2 x analytics code, one on top and one on the bottom, so seems like 1-2 plugins are being naughty. I am going to fix this and hopefully this will resolve the inaccurate stats.
  
  Otherwise traffic is mostly coming from google search engine 60%+ and its more than 6 months old.
  
  Thank you.
  
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nicktyler 12 years ago

Looks like this one is all wrapped up but if it doesn't change let us know as I can only dream of a bounce rate like that. It would massively benefit me rather than be a problem.
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awj888 12 years ago

its totally going to be down to some error on the site - ive never heard of any site getting 3.5% bounce rate! maybe facebook??
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nova37 12 years ago

If there's alot of articles, add some in-text ads. If they aren't clicking the banner ads, then maybe they will click on the ads within the article text.
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webdevpro 12 years ago

Do you have lost of videos on your site. "00:45:54" time on site / user with that much traffic is not easily digestive.
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Anna Howard 12 years ago

Wow, achieving a bounce rate of 3.5% is just considered outstanding from SEO perspectives.... This means that out of 100 visitors only 3 to 4 visitors left you page without viewing the content as to what was displayed....
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