What is your Bounce Rate?
 

What is your Bounce Rate?

I've read some forum admins have a high 70% bounce rate. Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

If you are one of them - you have a serious problem.

Post the following: (for comparison use stats for the following dates: Aug 31 - Sept 30 2008)

• Overall site bounce rate
• Main page (ie. portal) bounce rate
• Forum index page bounce rate
• URL (optional)

The goal of this thread is to discuss ideas, offer solutions, and issues that may cause high rates.

When i first started using analytics my bounce rate was as high as 80% in some areas :shock:!

After getting some feedback, and data from what people were looking at, I pretty much completely overhauled my site. Started with getting a new design, then getting better content, since then my drop rate has been in the low to mid 30's pretty much site wide ever since then.

My bounce rate for one of my forums is 37.17%. The other is a high 66.67%.

my bounce rate must be 100%... people come on my site and leave when satisfied quickly.. lol

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my friend Rich will be happy, his bounce rate for WTS in the last 2 weeks is 9.95%... 74.24% direct trafic

on nexialys.net, the rate is 55.95% for the last week because i closed the site and changed to a sub-domain... 44% direct trafic (indexed a lot)

TB, my theology board is at 33.27% for 78% of direct trafic...

It's 36.8% overall for my site. Only 14% on my forums index page, and 32% for my main site page.

for the past 30 days (Sept 1, 2008 - Oct 1, 2008)

41% New Visits

40% Overall
17% Main index (portal)
18% Forum index
4% Mods
4% Styles
6% Articles

going by the numbers above, the Main index page should be in the low single digits for a site that does not have any ads .. this tells me that the portal page needs improvement (there's nothing there that grabs the reader)

hum, portals are meant to redirect members to sub-pages... if you have a portal with too much information, people do not visit anymore... the portal is for newcombers, not regular members who already bookmarked their prefered part of the site...

having a portal with a high % would be good for information portals, not communities.

How do I figure out my bounce rate?

I tried working with the google analytics once but didn't seem to get it put into my templates correctly.

Are there directions to get set up and gather better statistics?

Right now I only have the basic statistics created by webalizer from my apache logs.

-Raymond

All you do to add google analytics is put it at the very bottom of your footer template. That should work.

For my homepage: 22%
Site: http://thebestforumever.com