Title: bounce rate Last modified: September 23, 2019 --- # bounce rate * Resolved [penseelibre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penseelibre/) * (@penseelibre) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/) * I particularly appreciate your plugin, but there’s something I don’t understand is my rebound rate is above 40. it takes a time when I had a bounce rate of 15 I preferred. how do you calculate it? is it taken into account the time spent on each page, that now you indicate well in the visits, I have visitors who spend a time of 00:30 or even more 00:50 on a page which is not so bad since my site is a commercial site (Woo). Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * (@coolmann) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11963067) * Hi [@penseelibre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penseelibre/) * Slimstat uses Google’s definition (and formula) to calculate a website’s bounce rate: * [https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009409?hl=en](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](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 * Thread Starter [penseelibre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penseelibre/) * (@penseelibre) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11963445) * 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 * Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * (@coolmann) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11963486) * 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 * Thread Starter [penseelibre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penseelibre/) * (@penseelibre) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11963630) * I just went through your link to [https://github.com/slimstat/wp-slimstat/blob/cbfca5d7d425b9255eff17fa4f62d49ba31c9b30/admin/view/wp-slimstat-db.php#L1164](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! * Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * (@coolmann) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11964420) * 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 Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘bounce rate’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-slimstat/assets/icon.svg?rev=2832242) * [SlimStat Analytics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-slimstat/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-slimstat/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-slimstat/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-slimstat/reviews/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bounce-rate-4/#post-11964420) * Status: resolved