How much bounce rate is good for a website ?
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blogzandstuff
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That's good, try and keep it there.
Scritty
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That is SPECTACULAR.
A bounce rate of under 40% is pretty good. Under 20% is world class. Under 5% is almost unheard of. I know many webmasters happy to keep it under 66%. I've only ever seen a few none intranet/essential sites get close to this mark and I assess websites for a living.
The lowest bounce rate in any commercial sector is 44% according to this early 2018 survey. That's 9x higher than yours... in a metric where "lower is better"
conversionxlDOTcom/guides/bounce-rate/benchmarks/ (replace DOT with.)
A bounce rate of under 40% is pretty good. Under 20% is world class. Under 5% is almost unheard of. I know many webmasters happy to keep it under 66%. I've only ever seen a few none intranet/essential sites get close to this mark and I assess websites for a living.
The lowest bounce rate in any commercial sector is 44% according to this early 2018 survey. That's 9x higher than yours... in a metric where "lower is better"
conversionxlDOTcom/guides/bounce-rate/benchmarks/ (replace DOT with.)
Scritty
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A bounce rate of under 5% not good?
Nope it is good. Objectively it is brilliant.
Unless he has made a mistake and means a bounce rate of 95% and the 5% is his retention rate (which seems a lot more common - but that is not what he said)
Under 5% bounce rate is extraordinarily good.
cmghostbuster
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Well my google analytics shows a 0.06% bounce rate but i think this is beacause my traffic is social and not from google
browserproxies
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I think that's just absolutely any webmaster's dream to have a bounce rate of less than 5%. Furthermore, a low bounce rate could also lead to higher user engagement on your site, and that indirectly signals Big G that good content may be present on your site, and hence your site will have a better authority in that aspect.
It's a real struggle to get anything below 50% due to the nature of the web visitors, but a 5% bounce rate means that your site's content may be awesome.
It's a real struggle to get anything below 50% due to the nature of the web visitors, but a 5% bounce rate means that your site's content may be awesome.
jennionline
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Even with a traffic of 1200, a 5% bounce rate is really good, in my opinion. You can start worrying when it gets to 45 to 55%.
Ben Thomas
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That's awesome bro....Always maintain this if you can properly.
Giant Marketers
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50% to 60% bounce rate is good for a website also below 50% is more good. Thanks
rocks11111
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I have heard of it Never means never
jackteam
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Perfect.. It is really low bounce rate buddy. Great. Just add some videos on the page to reduce this bounce rate.
Chris.Roark
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There are succesfull websites with 60% bounce rate so I think that your 5% (if it's true) is quite good.
Also, do you have any redirects in place? Because if you redirect the user or force him to click and pass it to another page it won't show as a bounce rate. And your 5% means is not a natural bounce rate.
So you need to consider how your users interact with your website
xinga
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a bounce rate of 4,96 % has a 99% percent chance you installed your GA property wrong or you are using redirects or some other nonsense.
expect:
A bounce rate of around 80% for a final content site (the article somebody was searching on your website)
And a bounce rate of around 50 for landingpage or homepage
Scritty
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Depends on niche.
The more commercial the niche the higher the bounce rate generally. People hunting around for a bargain is accepted practice.
If you have an academic or authority content site in a niche where that sort of thing is expected (i.e page one of Google is full of content rich pages, PDF,s reports explanations of complex products or preocesses) then a high bounce rate is a very bad thing. High in that case is anything over 35% and if it's over 50% you are in trouble.
IN quick fire shopping niches, quiz sites, funny sites, then I've known sites with a BR of 80%+ do just fine as that's pretty much what they all are.
There are lots of gray areas between those two extremes. It really depends on the niche.
The more commercial the niche the higher the bounce rate generally. People hunting around for a bargain is accepted practice.
If you have an academic or authority content site in a niche where that sort of thing is expected (i.e page one of Google is full of content rich pages, PDF,s reports explanations of complex products or preocesses) then a high bounce rate is a very bad thing. High in that case is anything over 35% and if it's over 50% you are in trouble.
IN quick fire shopping niches, quiz sites, funny sites, then I've known sites with a BR of 80%+ do just fine as that's pretty much what they all are.
There are lots of gray areas between those two extremes. It really depends on the niche.