Bounce Rate
The percentage of visitors who leave a site after viewing only one page.
In practice
A high bounce rate isn't automatically bad - a blog post that fully answers a reader's question in one page might have a high bounce rate simply because the visitor got what they needed and left satisfied, so it's most useful read alongside time-on-page and conversion data.
A landing page gets 1,000 visits and 600 of those visitors leave without clicking anything else on the site - a 60% bounce rate.
Why it matters
Read in isolation, bounce rate can be misleading - it's most useful combined with time-on-page and conversion data to separate a disengaged visitor from one who found exactly what they needed.
Worth knowing
- A high rate on a page that fully answers a question isn't necessarily a problem.
- Landing pages with a mismatch between ad promise and content often show unusually high bounce rates.
- Page load speed is one of the most common, fixable drivers of an elevated bounce rate.
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