Bounce Rate concerns

[deepsand]

Really bounce rate is big issue and we can only minizie this rate not totally cover this. There is no standard level to determine the bounce that is good or bad.. but it should be minimum up to the maximum extent.

So, under no circumstances is a high bounce rate a signal of success?

What about the visitor whose needs are completely met by the landing page, so that he's no need to look any further on your site?

Or, see another example at http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster...l=1#post566221 .

[deepsand]

You have to look at time on the page (as stated above) and unique visitors. If you have 100 entrances but only 1 unique visitor it skews everything. You also have to check out bots. Supposedly they are weeded out but .....

In general your bounce rate is the number of unique visitors that stay more than 2 seconds (I think that is the time Google Analytics uses). Going to more pages is something else again and not really related to bounce rate.

Makes no difference if the visitor is unique or not.

And, 'bot visits inflate the bounce rate, which is quite the opposite of what the OP claims to be seeing.

The OP is reporting that the 62.45% non-bounces (100% minus 27.54% bounces) cannot be accounted for by the single page request for /samples.htm. And, said single page request is logically inconsistent with the reported 2.64 Pages/Visit.

[deepsand]

The stats I'm looking at are for a single day

This just now jumped out at me.

Look at longer time spans and see if the anomaly persists. GA may have a boundary problem. I.e., visits that begin in one reporting day but don't complete until the next one may not be handled gracefully.

Even though I use GA, I ignore a lot of their reported results, including on-site behavior, relying instead on the much more complete and accurate data provided by the server logs.