Visitors stay longer!
Hi WA friends,
I want to share with you a happy news. I've just checked Google Analytics for my two websites. I noticed that visitors stay much longer than before. One month ago, session duration was around 1 minute. Now it is 5 minutes on English website, and 8 minutes on Croatian website.
When I saw that Session Duration was only 1 minute, I knew I had to do something very drastic. At that time I had a Theme with very large Featured Images and post excerpts were very big also, thus stopping my visitors from inspecting it any further. When they landed on my website they were only able to see a Featured Image of one post, not even a Title of the post.
I moved to a theme called Publishable Mag which had smaller excerpts and featured images. Now, a visitor can see up to three excerpts on one page, and as a result, they stay longer.
I have two questions for you:
1. What is, in your opinion, a good session duration?
2. What is, in your opinion, a good bounce rate?
Cheers,
Mia
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Nice article and congrats on your longer session duration. Well done and well played!
Wrt your questions: I wish I had session duration to begin with hahahaha
I'm new here :-))
You will soon enough. Just don't stop creating good quality content. And one thing you need to know about websites, there is this term called a sandbox. This is a period of approximately 6 months in which Google has a "hand-brake" on your site. It doesn't trust you yet and it doesn't give you good rankings. After that period, if you are still working on your site, you will see that all of the sudden you'll be able to rank much easier.
So use first six months to learn as much as you can and to build as much as you can, and don't be disappointed if you don't see much progress in rankings, traffic, and profit. It will come after the sandbox period. It is possible to achieve success earlier, but it depends on the niche as well.
I was checking out other people's websites (WA members) to see how their themes look like and then I tried to find something similar. It seems I have found gold.
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As far as I have seen and heard, 3mins is a good session duration. Not very sure about bounce rates though. I think you are doing extremely well. Only thing left to do is a good CRO.