Comments on: Google Web Analytics Glossary http://empoweryou.ca/2007/04/22/google-web-analytics-glossary/ Helping entrepreneurs, professionals, and not-for-profits make the most of business technology! Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:28:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DavidWSnow http://empoweryou.ca/2007/04/22/google-web-analytics-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-724 DavidWSnow Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:28:37 +0000 http://empoweryou.ca/?p=78#comment-724 After writing the above comment I noticed another field that I have questions about. On the same "Content by Title" report there are columns for "pageviews" and "unique pageviews". Is the difference in numbers that the same visitor viewed the same page more than once or what? If that is the case I wonder how that relates to %exit and bounce? /DaveS After writing the above comment I noticed another field that I have questions about.

On the same “Content by Title” report there are columns for “pageviews” and “unique pageviews”. Is the difference in numbers that the same visitor viewed the same page more than once or what? If that is the case I wonder how that relates to %exit and bounce?

/DaveS

]]> By: DavidWSnow http://empoweryou.ca/2007/04/22/google-web-analytics-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-722 DavidWSnow Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:06:59 +0000 http://empoweryou.ca/?p=78#comment-722 Great glossary for GA. I was looking for Google definitions from a couple of fields not mentioned here. Bounce Rate. I thought that this was the %age of pageviews where it was the first and only page of the visit. However, I have pages on my site (www.AgingSafely.com) that aren't in the index and are usually accessed by first doing a search on our "Listed Homes" page and then clicking on a link to get to the details page. On page with38 views has a 100% bounce rate and a 29% exit rate. This would seem to indicate that EVERY page view was the only pageview for that visit yet 71% went on to a second page. Do you have any detailed definitions for these fields? I have about 80 of these pages and the average bounce rate is 76% and exit rate id 25%. It just doesn't seem reasonable. /DaveS Great glossary for GA. I was looking for Google definitions from a couple of fields not mentioned here.

Bounce Rate. I thought that this was the %age of pageviews where it was the first and only page of the visit. However, I have pages on my site (www.AgingSafely.com) that aren’t in the index and are usually accessed by first doing a search on our “Listed Homes” page and then clicking on a link to get to the details page.

On page with38 views has a 100% bounce rate and a 29% exit rate. This would seem to indicate that EVERY page view was the only pageview for that visit yet 71% went on to a second page.

Do you have any detailed definitions for these fields?

I have about 80 of these pages and the average bounce rate is 76% and exit rate id 25%. It just doesn’t seem reasonable.
/DaveS

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