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Bounce Rate Dropped More Than 40%

by Ledux
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Hi, today I noticed that my bounce rate has dropped dramatically for the last week.

The thing is I don't know should I be happy or worried about it, because I haven't installed no new plugins that could influence my bounce rate and it's also highly unlikely that people started enjoying my site so much.
Some changes that I recall doing in this period of time was to install a plugin called Smush.it for image optimization and I also changed how I approve comments that I have to approve every comment unless the person has a previously approved comment so, maybe this has somehow influenced the spambots.
Now, I also worry that I might be hacked and that someone installed a redirect on my blog or something.

Any ideas from more experienced people?
#40% #bounce #dropped #rate
  • Profile picture of the author taniawg
    Above graph represents average figure. Don't worry about this.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Check where your traffic is coming from and which traffic sources accounted for the change in bounce rate. You might just find that you are getting more targeted traffic than you were in the past.
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    • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
      I use analytics but asking the world to have the latest version of java installed and turned on is a bit much to ask just to get to reporting.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ledux
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Check where your traffic is coming from and which traffic sources accounted for the change in bounce rate. You might just find that you are getting more targeted traffic than you were in the past.
      Oh thanks I think I understand now, it's, because I installed Google Analytics on my pop up, probably will take it off so that it wont skew my results.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoace
    Wait... doesn't less bounce rate = better?

    100% bounce rate = 100% of your visitors are leaving immediately.

    Someone correct me here.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ledux
      Originally Posted by seoace View Post

      Wait... doesn't less bounce rate = better?

      100% bounce rate = 100% of your visitors are leaving immediately.

      Someone correct me here.
      Yes, lower bounce rate is better.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Sounds like good news to me
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    • Profile picture of the author andrewmatt
      not exactly bounce rate means person coming to your website he is not doing anything and he is leaving your website like person didnt filled up a form or something like that.without filling up a form or somthing like that is called bounce rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simon Farmer
    Maybe because you installed Smush.it your site now loads faster so people are having a better experience and so they're sticking around longer and digging through your site a lot deeper?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ledux
      Nah it wasn't smush.it it was my pop-up right after I stopped tracking it I saw my bounce rate to go up
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    They either like your site or they get stuck on a browser exit popup.
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    • Profile picture of the author SharonFHarris
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      • Profile picture of the author Enuke
        As your are showing the result the bounce rate it would be batter, because lower bounce rate is equal to ,site is becoming popular. My friend say here , if you want to see the exact result then go in analytics tool and check since when your bounce rate is low , where from the users are coming this time. You will come to know all the things very easily
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  • Profile picture of the author foisontech
    Bounce rate will be always lower is better, around 40 to 60% is enough.
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