Google Analytics are lying!
Published on April 30, 2016
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Hello, everyone,
Here's is something that I have been suspecting for a while- Google Analytics reporting accuracy is not.
I've been wondering how the bounce rate is calculated and even asked questions here and there but all answers were uncertain. It seems that no one is sure how it works. Neither am I. But now I now that when it shows you your bounce rate is 100% I know it's a lie.
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Today I did an experiment. I've visited a particular page from the computer that is not on my exclusion list and stayed on that page for about 10 minutes, scrolling down little by little. In a couple of hours, I've visited the different page performing the similar action.
When I went to GA later today, I could see me visiting these pages at the times accordingly. But it's shown me 00:00:00 time spent on the page! And 100% bounce rate!
There was a 2 hours time interval between these visits, so it couldn't be a momentary glitch.
I don't know, what you may think about it, but as far as I'm concerned, G's 100% bounce rate means 0 to me now (of course, I realize, that their opinion supersedes mine).
What do you think?
Kirill.
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