Archive for May, 2010
Bounce Rates
Lately I’ve been learning more about bounce rates in my Google Analytics. Here’s a bit of a summary on what they are:
“Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality – a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors. The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.”
If you have Google Analytics you can view your bouce rate by going Visitors > Visitor Trending > Bounce Rate.
Basically the SMALLER your bouce rate is, the better, becaues that means that people ‘stick around’ when they get to your site. I like to imagine it like this:
Your website/blog is a big bed. People run into your room and they jump on your bed. Sometimes the bed is not what the person wants and as soon as they jump on the bed, they jump off again. You want to make your bed super comfy so that when people jump onto your bed they fall into it and go to sleep, dreaming about lovely things they see on your website!
Bouce rates are measured as percentages. The percentage that’s good for your site will depend on who your target audience is, and what their typical behaviour is. My bounce rate usually sits at about 65%, what’s yours?
My bounce rate from the last week
You can read more about bounce rates over at wikipedia.
Some tips for improving your bouce rate.
Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!
Tags: analytics, bouncerate, Geek, google, Tech
Happy Birthday Me!
Yep, on the 27th May 1987 at 11:13pm I entered the world.
I was the first of four children. The only girl.
My mum was 29. My dad was 33.
We’re a family. And we are awesome at it.
Presents and Cards from Sunday’s party…
So, I’m 23. How did I go with my 23 by 23?
1. Finish my scrapbook from our Jan/Feb travels. DONE
2. Secure the Hutchinson job at work. DONE
3. Be a good blog commentor and comment on at least every 3 or so blog posts I read. DONE
4. Buy Powderfinger’s new album DONE
5. Persue graphic design and photography lessons/online courses DONE, Only one more week and my Graduate Certificate is finished!
6. Take an enormously large bank loan for our investment FAIL
7. Find the perfect cupcake recipe DONE
8. Have a handmade christmas DONE, though family members were the only ones who appreciated this. Gifts I gave my friends are unused.
9. Start saving my $$ again (in the piggy bank- loose coins) DONE, though not that well…
10. Loose 5+ kg DONE! I’ve lost 6.6KG!
11. Make a header for this blog!! (have been meaning to do this ever since I put this theme on!!) DONE
12. Read through 2 more books of the bible FAIL
13. Get my reader to 0 DONE, though this is defintely not CURRENTLY the case!!
14. Drink 2 bottles of water a day HALF
15. Start Luke’s scrapbook DONE, it’s STARTED, which is all I required this year. 
16. Make plans for another holiday DONE, Booked, and paid for!
17. Track my Weight Watchers points every day! DONE almost completely. I think I’ve only had a few days when I haven’t.
18. Finish editing Pete’s mime photos! FAIL
19. Make some pants for summer FAIL. They are cut out, but not sewed together.
20. Finish my christmas wall hanging DONE!
21. Finish my paining I started the other week, and paint another DONE! I’ve done several since then! (here) and (here)
22. Scotch Gard the car seats! DONE!
23. Keep Shabbat better. FAIL
Keep an eye out in the next month of so for my 24 by 24!!
Look What I made…
These pretty little cupcakes for my birthday party!
My party was yesterday (Sunday) and I had the most marvelous time! It was tea party in the park at Cotton Tree, and I felt so blessed to have so many beautiful friends there to share the fun with! My only regret- not many photos. It is hard to take photo when you’re talking to lots of people. Even harder to get photos of yourself! Thankfully I have scavenged a few picture from people who have uploaded them to facebook!
Does anyone else have this problem?!
Tags: 23, birthday, carbis, Friends, T, talia, tea, teaparty
