You could add the "easy recent posts" plugin which will bring up some recent posts when the user gets towards the bottom of the page. So the user may be more inclined to click on something else and your bounce rate will decrease.
i considered that this might be the problem, so i just recently had a pages list and added more internal links between pages. hope it will help.
95% is not a good rate ! Seems like people are lured to your website by some means and when they see you website they are like "WTF" !!!
Check with the page views , avg time spent on site as well to get a clear view
i'm hoping this isn't the case. i get some pages where the engagement is really good (< 30 mins on a page according to analytics) but the sheer amount of people bouncing off in < 30 secs kinda affects the average as a whole.
It depends on the traffic sources though. Where do the traffic come from? Any what do you do in your site to engage your visitors? For my case, affiliate site with traffic coming from search engine, the bounce rate can be very high, sometime 90 - 99%.. if you plan to build relationship with your reader, 95% is definitely not a good one.
99% of traffic is from google. i do have a tools for musicians section where i list a few amazon products that are related to home recording, pitch recognition and stuff like that.
i also group these into beginner, intermediate, and hardcore levels based on my own progression when i started teaching myself music.
other than that, 40+ articles, some motivational images as posts, a free singing course offered as a membership site, broken down into 5 separate modules. and 2 product reviews, one of which i'm an affiliate for, the other completely free.
i'm open to suggestions.
Whoa, 95% is terrible, man. I suggest you use " heatmap " to see how much the users scroll down on your website and some of the heatmap service providers also provide " screen record " of each user activity as well. You will get an idea how to tweak your website.
never used heatmap before. i'll give it a try and let you know
That's very bad. How do visitors reach your website?
Maybe they don't have any options to go to other pages?
only google. i'm beginning to think that maybe i should diversify into other traffic sources. se traffic is bouncing like basketballs.. and i do have links in the articles to go to other related articles in the blog.
these do get clicked on by users but again, overwhelming number on bounces made the average look really horrible.
best is to see where your traffic come from and to check if your site have problems is slow etc
i did check my site load speed. these are the stats:
requests: 65
load time (from amsterdam): 4.62secs
page size 899.1kb
score according to the site: 74/100
can someone help me decipher this data?
Don't jump the gun yet.
Is it google analytics that is measuring your bounce rate?
If so it is generally counting all sorts of genuine activity as a bounce, improperly.
Search the forum for bounce rate. One of the guys shared a modified GA api script, which calls back to analytics more frequently and gives you accurate tracking. My bounce rate dropped from 85% to 7% .
85% to 7%!!! (balls drop) ok i'll do a search on this one. would it affect my site speed? most of my sites are being visited so it's weird why the bounce rate is so high.
try statscounter , it's works great.
there may be a problem with your traffic source.
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never heard of statscounter before. will check it out. traffic source is google.
will take up the suggestions and come back with feedback.
oh, and another thing:
in analytics, i the majority of my visitors come from (not provided). 99% of them come from organic search and most of that is not provided.
so how am i to know what's not working and fix it? GA is so confusing sometimes..
