Hi @penseelibre
Slimstat uses Google’s definition (and formula) to calculate a website’s bounce rate:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009409?hl=en
Which is implemented here:
https://github.com/slimstat/wp-slimstat/blob/cbfca5d7d425b9255eff17fa4f62d49ba31c9b30/admin/view/wp-slimstat-db.php#L1164
Slimstat determines how many HUMAN visitors have accessed your website during the given time span, and then crunches the numbers accordingly. Please note that Google’s definition doesn’t keep into consideration HOW LONG people stay on your website, even though that looks like an interesting concept. However, we are working on introducing new charts to show you the average visit duration by day, and average time on site day by day.
Best,
Jason
Thank you,
I just read the google page on the bounce they do not take into account the time spent, indeed
however it is referred to a page to talk about the time spent,
which is not taken into account in the rebound rate
here is another flaw (or defect) in google!
so soon Slimstat will exceed Google quality
Hi,
What formula would you use to account for the time spent on site, to correct Google’s flaw? Oh, and thank you for your kind words!
Jason
I just went through your link to https://github.com/slimstat/wp-slimstat/blob/cbfca5d7d425b9255eff17fa4f62d49ba31c9b30/admin/view/wp-slimstat-db.php#L1164
Indeed your calculation only counts human visits, which I didn’t know before, we were very useful to inform you in the end to make our choices of settings.
I’m not very good at programming (reading it is fine, doing it is something else), just a question: is it possible to add an element, a line that would add to human visits the time spent,
so we would have
1- the number of pages visited by each human
2- and additional information, as you suggested, the average time spent by these humans
so we’d have two pieces of information instead of one.
and if it were possible to have a third information: adding these two infos?????
If I dream or ask too much… don’t hold it against me!
We’ll go back to the drawing board and research other tools to see if others use a formula that incorporates time spent on site.
Jason
