Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors to a specific website who leave the site after navigating just one page, on which they landed.
Bounce rate is an important term of SEO and it is the effort of every webmaster to keep the bounce rate very low. High bounce rate / elevated exit rate is not well to maintain the good health of blog.
When we move towards Google analytics, we learn that when a visitor lands on the home page of your site or on a particular web page, and then leaves your site from the same page, this is the bounce of visitor. The time when a visitor entered into the site and the time when he exit, all this time is the bounce rate of site.
What is Bounce Rate in Google Analytics?
It is to memorize that it will be considered bounce rate only when visitor engaged at only one page during this whole session. He didn’t open even a single another web page. That’s why sessions Google Analytics says that
“bounce rate is the percentage of single-page sessions.”
Let’s take the help of an example to understand this concept with more clearly.
Elucidation of Bounce Rate with Example
Suppose John is the visitor of this site. He opens his internet browser, entered this URL www.techsolutionsdesk.com and landed on home page. When he entered into the home page of site, time was 6:14 P.M. He does nothing on the page, nor he opens more pages, nor he read any blog post, simply landed on home page and left the site at 6:30 P.M.
John entered at 6:14 P.M on home page and from the same page he leave the site at 6:30 P.M. this is the bounce rate will be measured as following.
Bounce rate of home page= total number of visits viewing home page only / total entries to page. [R b= T v / T e ]
R b = Bounce Rate
T v = Total number of visits viewing one page only.
T e = Total entries to the page.
Now this was an example if a visitor enters to home page of site and leaves the site from the same page.
Suppose John open Google chrome and enter a query “how to increase the blog traffic using online forums”. Search engine shows the returning results. John clicks on one result and lands on that web page. After sometime he exits from the same page without navigating further pages. In this situation the same formula which is mentioned above will be applied to calculate the bounce rate of that web page.
Reasons of High Bounce Rate
A high bounce rate means visitor have no interest in your site. There may be many reasons of it for example your site has no useful content for visitor. The layout and design of your site is not so attractive or it is cluttered with ads. So there are many reasons of high bounce rate. Some of the major reasons are mentioned below.
- Uploading time is site is too much. Website is taking long time to open. According to Kissmetrics, 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in just 2 seconds. So improve the uploading time of site.
- Very poor design of site. Design is the first impression which makes the mind of visitor either to further navigate the site or leave the site. A Friendly Design of Website is helpful to reduce the bounce rate.
- Visitor found unexpected content. They didn’t get the content for which they come on your site. They come to find “how to increase blog traffic using Pinterest” but they didn’t find this. They found “how to increase blog traffic using twitter”. So they will leave your site.
- They found irrelevant content from what they see in search engine. Search engine shows the post title in returning results. You published an article on “What to do if content of your website is copied by another blog?” But in content, you mentioned what is plagiarism? Is Google love it or it is a sheer violation of Google? What are plagiarism tools? Although you mentioned all the material about plagiarism in your post but not mentioned about “what to do if content of your website is copied by another blog”. While your post title was this but you didn’t mentioned about it in whole of the post. This is irrelevant content, in which the content of post is totally different from the title of post. When visitor will see this, why he will remain on your site? He will leave it.
- Your blog post is full with grammatical mistakes and spellings.
- Generated low quality content.
- Website is fully cluttered with ads.
- You made your landing page hard to read.
- There is no navigation tool to navigate the site easily like search box.
- Today when Google announced that mobile friendly site is a ranking factor which increases the visibility of site in search engine. If your site is not mobile friendly, it will increase the bounce rate of your site.
