I worked on better navigation on homepage, try to keep consistency in writing and write as much valuable information possible,

But it is not getting lower than that.

So far shows 79 %.

Ultimately, I think it depends on the type of site you have and the content you are providing – some are more time consuming than others.

It goes from the around 60% up to the high 80’s.

Oddly enough, when my traffic increased quite a lot, my bounce rate was also quite high due to a high percentage of visitors just reading one article post then leaving.

The musical site linked here has a bounce rate of 70% . I think its because of the design and also the popular posts. All the Top 10 Song posts (which are popular) link back to their respective song reviews and users can listen to the songs only when they click on the links and go there.

Readers might visit my blog to read single post,
or latest post and move on..

While my bounce is 56%, my conversion sucks-on all kinds of stuff. From the free eBook to affiliate banners to adsense links. I have no freakin’ idea. Maybe it’s just the wrong niche.

Review’d is my website. It is a free link directory. When you enter the homepage and you are a user that wishes to add your own site, you have to click “Submit” or the “Submit a Site” button. This is why my bounce rate is so low.

For other websites, I recommend having a featured post widget on your homepage that directs to other pages. This will greatly influence the bounce rate.

Having said that, my traffic numbers are very low (about 35 uniques per day), which probably has a positive effect on my bounce rate.

Direct: 27.91%
Referral: 68.49%
Organic: 18.75%

I have a fairly popular but not directly related site linking to me that really boosts the overall bounce rate — but I’m mostly interested in keeping my organic bounce rate low, and for the time being it’s crazy low.

However, my site is a store and not a blog, though I do have a blog on the site as well. I imagine regular blog readers bounce a lot since they read the most recent post and then are done for the day.

The travel site is geared towards a specific destination so people searching find it and hang around to learn more…the recipes site people come looking for a specific recipe and leave almost immediately.

One is probably your site design. If people are turned off by your design, I would assume they would leave immediately.

And 2, I believe is the keyword that brought the visitor to your site. If the content on your page isn’t what the visitor expected to find, then they would probably leave immediately.

My bounce rate ranges from 30% to 80%, depending on the site.

The majority of our searches come from people searching for specific products or model numbers. I believe most would be price comparison shoppers, so we try to give them reasons to buy from us by using USPs.

In addition, if the differences between the visitor count from an external, and internal counters should not be as large as it is on our sites, if both are precise (ours can differ by more than a factor of 10). Those facts more than hint to me, at least, how counting clicks and assigning bounce rates can be.

Longer lengths of time on a site and the trends in any one click-counting method seem to be more consistent measures of what’s actually happening.

I did some editorial pieces on MeasurementMedia.com about site analytics and the errors I, and others, believe exist.

I haven’t really taken any steps to reduce them yet, but have recently taken an interest in it, so will probably be making some changes in the near future.

I added more internal related link at each articles to improve it about 3~4%.

This is because of the way we rank – we target specific keywords like “Remington 870 review”. People find us in Google and get exactly what they’re looking for, so while they “bounce”, they tend to stay a while and read.

On the other hand, category pages tend to do well in terms of bounce rate – our handgun reviews page has a 25-30% bounce rate.

So – I don’t think “lower is better” is necessarily true for bounce rate. It really depends on the visitors’ discovery method and what you’re trying to accomplish with that page.

Very high. I have never been below 75%.

Though one time I inadvertently added two Google Analytics tracking codes, and dropped my bounce rate down to about 5%….

I think my bounce rate is high due in part to submitting my posts to StumbleUpon. These visitors have nearly a 100% bounce rate.

That said, if others out there with similar content are reporting much better numbers, I might be tempted to change my tune! 🙂