I'm trying to get my finger on how The Georgetown Hoya is doing in
regards to bounce rates as they relate to other similar sites. I'm
getting the feeling that we're high, even considering the kind of
traffic sites like all of ours get (lots of referrals from aggregate
sources). If you could kindly post some detail about how each of your
sites seem to do with this stat, it would be a big help. Here's what
I'm looking at over here:
> I'm trying to get my finger on how The Georgetown Hoya is doing in
> regards to bounce rates as they relate to other similar sites. I'm
> getting the feeling that we're high, even considering the kind of
> traffic sites like all of ours get (lots of referrals from aggregate
> sources). If you could kindly post some detail about how each of your
> sites seem to do with this stat, it would be a big help. Here's what
> I'm looking at over here:
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 17:20, "J. Ryan Zambon (Info. Systems Director,
> The Hoya)" <ryan.zam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm trying to get my finger on how The Georgetown Hoya is doing in
> > regards to bounce rates as they relate to other similar sites. I'm
> > getting the feeling that we're high, even considering the kind of
> > traffic sites like all of ours get (lots of referrals from aggregate
> > sources). If you could kindly post some detail about how each of your
> > sites seem to do with this stat, it would be a big help. Here's what
> > I'm looking at over here:
Those numbers appear roughly inline with our own. Our site average at
yaledailynews.com is 61% bounce, with most of the main/section pages
in the 20-35% range and articles upwards of 70%.
Max Cutler
Yale Daily News Webmaster
On Feb 19, 8:20 pm, "J. Ryan Zambon (Info. Systems Director, The
> I'm trying to get my finger on how The Georgetown Hoya is doing in
> regards to bounce rates as they relate to other similar sites. I'm
> getting the feeling that we're high, even considering the kind of
> traffic sites like all of ours get (lots of referrals from aggregate
> sources). If you could kindly post some detail about how each of your
> sites seem to do with this stat, it would be a big help. Here's what
> I'm looking at over here:
The Daily Orange does roughly 63% on avg. on the main site. 73% on our
popular blogs. 40% on popular stories.
Bear in mind though: The Bounce rate stat is very inaccurate. Compare
it to your exit rate which theoretically should be 100%-bounce rate.
This is rarely the case. Don't worry too much about those detailed
analytics – they're just not accurate enough to really be trusted.
Think of them as a guideline more than anything else :)
> Those numbers appear roughly inline with our own. Our site average at
> yaledailynews.com is 61% bounce, with most of the main/section pages
> in the 20-35% range and articles upwards of 70%.
> Max Cutler
> Yale Daily News Webmaster
> On Feb 19, 8:20 pm, "J. Ryan Zambon (Info. Systems Director, The
> Hoya)" <ryan.zam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I'm trying to get my finger on how The Georgetown Hoya is doing in
>> regards to bounce rates as they relate to other similar sites. I'm
>> getting the feeling that we're high, even considering the kind of
>> traffic sites like all of ours get (lots of referrals from aggregate
>> sources). If you could kindly post some detail about how each of your
>> sites seem to do with this stat, it would be a big help. Here's what
>> I'm looking at over here:
