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Personal blogging by Steph Gray, former digital agency founder and erstwhile bureaucrat

24tips: understanding bounce rate

10 Dec: so people talk about ‘bounce rate’, and most of us have a vague sense that high bounce rates are bad, suggesting people are coming to a site in error, or not sticking around very long to enjoy our awesome content.

Bounce rate diagramThere’s a great little explanation of bounce rate, and some benchmarks for different types of site, over at KissMetrics. If you want to explore bounce rates in more detail, and maybe address areas of your site with suspiciously high rates, here’s a couple of places to start:

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