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Bounce Rated with Case Study

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Bounce Rate      Opposite of conversion rates are bounce rates. “A  bounce  is a single-page session on your site. In Analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single request to the Analytics server, such as when a user opens a single page on your site and then exits without triggering any other requests to the Analytics server during that session,” Google Analytics, n.d.). Therefore, a bounce rate is calculated as single-page visits (bounces) divided by entry pages, (Reed College of Media, 2021). In other words, “bounce rate is the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page),” (Koks, 2015).        According to Google Analytics, bounce rate isn’t always a negative metric. If a business’s website depends on visitors viewing more than one page, then a high bounce rate would indicate that improvements or maint...

Conversion Rates with Case Study

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Conversion Rate Conversion      To understand a conversion rate, one must understand a conversion. In web analytics, the conversion metric “examines how effective you are at converting your online audience into paying customers. Google defines a conversion as what happens when someone clicks your ad and then takes an action that you’ve defined as valuable,” (Klipfolio, n.d.). Of course, successful conversions for one business or entity may be completely different for another business or entity. This means, how conversions are measured is dependent on the type of business analyzing this data.   Conversion Rate      A conversion rate is measured using this formula: Conversion rate = (conversions/total visitors) * 100%        For example, if a website had 100,000 visitors and 5,000 conversions last month, the conversion rate would be five percent, (Crowe, 2019). A conversion rate is a percent of visitors who have completed a defined go...

WVU IMC 642

Welcome! This initial post indicates the use of this blog for the WVU IMC 642 Web Metrics & SEO course. -Monica