Bounce Rate Explaination

Below is the very technical reason to describe bounce rate. If you look at the landing pages, your point of entry has become more specific as time has progressed. Point being that if you take my philosophy that every page is a home page, when a person lands on the page they are looking for, first, then leave it counts as a bounce. They may have gotten the information they were looking for with out having to hunt around on the site, which again is a plus. See the info below.

Bounce rate is the percentage of visits that go only one page before exiting a site.

There are a number of factors that contribute to your bounce rate. For example, visitors might leave your site from the entrance page if there are site design or usability issues. Alternatively, visitors might also leave the site after viewing a single page if they’ve found the information they need on that one page, and had no need or interest in visiting other pages.

Other factors may be solely attributed to visitor behavior. For example, if a user bookmarks a page on your site, visits it, and leaves, then that’s considered a bounce.

To understand the difference between exit and bounce rates for a particular page in your site, keep in mind three things:

1. For all pageviews to the page, the exit rate is the percentage that were the last in the session.
2. For all sessions that start with the page, bounce rate is the percentage that were the only one of the session.
3. The bounce rate calculation for a page is based only on visits that start with that page.
   

Let’s clarify this last point with a simple example. Your site has pages A through C, and only one session per day exists, with the following pageview order:

• Monday: Page A > Page B > Page C
• Tuesday: Page B > Page A > Page C
• Wednesday: Page A > exit
  

The content report for Page A would show 3 pageviews and a 50% bounce rate.  You might have guessed that the bounce rate would be 33%, but the Tuesday pageview granted to Page A is not considered in its bounce rate calculation. Consider that a bounce is the notion of a session with only one interaction from the visitor, and the session-centric analysis answers a simple yes/no question: “Did this session contain more than one pageview?” If the answer to that question is “no,” then it’s important to consider which page was involved in the bounce.  If the answer is “yes,” then it only matters that the initial page in the session lead to other pageviews.  For that reason, bounce rate for a page is only meaningful when it initiates the session.

Now let’s extend this example to explore the Exit rate and Bounce rate metrics for a series of single-session days on your site.

• Monday: Page B > Page A > Page C
• Tuesday:  Page B > Exit
• Wednesday:  Page A > Page C > Page B
• Thursday:  Page C > Exit
• Friday: Page B > Page C > Page A
  

The % Exit and Bounce rate calculations are:

Exit Rate:

• Page A: 33% (only 3 of 5 sessions included Page A)
• Page B: 50% (only 4 of 5 sessions included Page B)
• Page C: 50% (only 4 of 5 sessions included Page C)
  

Bounce Rate:

• Page A: 0% (no sessions began with Page A, so it has no bounce rate)
• Page B: 33% (bounce rate is higher than exit rate, because 3 sessions started with Page B, with one leading to a bounce)
• Page C: 100% (one session started with Page C, and it lead to a bounce)
  

(Sourced from Google)