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it happened since I have upgraded my vbulletin from vb3.8.4 to vb4
what the hell is this?
My Pages per visit dropped from 3.2 to 2.1
My Bounce Rate jumped from 40% to 70% !!!
what's going on why is this I really don't have any clue !!
it happened since I have upgraded my vbulletin from vb3.8.4 to vb4
what the hell is this?
My Pages per visit dropped from 3.2 to 2.1
My Bounce Rate jumped from 40% to 70% !!!
what's going on why is this I really don't have any clue !!
We experienced a big jump in bounce rates too when we upgraded.
I suggest if you carefully read the bounce messages to determine what exactly the bounces are saying. We found that 80% of the bounces were from Yahoo claiming that they were returning our emails because of concerns over potential spam. Most of the bounces give a postmaster link to appeal. We went through the appeal process and were unblocked by Yahoo and a few others.
So why did this happen? In the admin section there is an area for EMAIL OPTIONS, including setting up SMTP Username and SMTP Password, which is tied the the official BOUNCE EMAIL address you list. By setting this up with VB4, we are better able to certify with ISPs (Yahoo and others) that our emails are legit.
That's a Google Analytics graph so he's not talking about emails bouncing back. He's talking about the percent of people that go to the site that don't visit any other pages and leave to go to another site.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_rate Bounce rate is a term used in web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who "bounce" away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site.
The formula used to calculate bounce rate is: Bounce Rate = Total Number of Visits Viewing One Page / Total Number of Visits
A bounce occurs when a web site visitor only views a single page on a website, that is, the visitor leaves a site without visiting any other pages before a specified session-timeout occurs. There is no industry-standard minimum or maximum time by which a visitor must leave in order for a bounce to occur. Rather, this is determined by the session timeout of the analytics tracking software.
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If the session length for analytics didn't change, and the only thing that changed was the upgrade to VB4, then the OP is thinking people are actually visiting less pages per visit because of VB4.
Mine has went up some too, but not that drastically. I've had about a 6% rise in bounce rate since I switched before Christmas (Was 22%, now around 28%). And my average time on the site has decreased by about a minute, and 10 seconds to right around 10 minutes, flat.
Tough to say. The first image you showed of the big spike in bounce rates was for end of Jan/first week of Feb. This last image is of the last week of Feb.
What I was trying to ascertain was if you were just getting a big influx of one off visitors that felt they were in the wrong space, but you can't see that from the graphs you provided because the graphs are from different time periods. The only contributing factor from a vb4 upgrade that I can tell is if your site was significantly unresponsive or dead during that time. If that was the case, I can't see how analytics would have recorded in the first place
In my experience, any major changes to site/domain results in a decrease and then recovery, hopefully to better than before. An upgrade from 3X to 4X is a major change and the google bots will be thinking this is different as will your users. Give it some time to recover.
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