how to reduce bounce rate google analytics in wordpress

Page bounce rate is many time discussed in many article. Here we shown, how to reduce bounce rate google analytics in wordpress. Showed tricks for reduce bounce rate. My site was having high bounce rate always. I tried many tricks for solving the issue. Then I read many article about bounce rate. how google analytics calculating bounce rate.

I was recently told that some people use event tracking to find a truer bounce rate. Yes. You can reduce bounce rate by using some adding some javascript event to wordpress site. I found nice wordpress plugin which will help us to reduce bounce rate.

how to reduce bounce rate google analytics in wordpress

Reduce Bounce Rate

how to reduce bounce rate google analytics in wordpress
how to reduce bounce rate google analytics in wordpress

Get the real Time On Site and Bounce Rate in Google Analytics. Google Analytics calculates the Time On Site based on the length of time between a user entering your site and their last page view. This won\’t give you the REAL Time on Site and Bounce Rate stats.

FEATURES

  • Old and new tracking codes are supported
  • Code placement choice between header and footer
  • Track page scrolls
  • Change time event frequency
  • Set maximum tracking time
  • Disable for administrator role

Worst case scenario A visitor is very interested in one of your pages and takes 2 minutes and 13 seconds to read the article. After this he bookmarks the page and leaves. This visitor stayed 2 minutes and 13 seconds on your page, but never interacted with it. To Google that is a bounce! And bounced visits are marked 0:00 Time on Site. Not fair, right?

Another bad scenario A visitor goes to your website and stays 1 minute and 11 seconds on the first page. Then, he goes to a second page where he stays 1 minute and 12 seconds. Without any interaction on this page, he leaves. Since Google doesn’t know how long your visitor stayed on the second page, Google will add only the time the visitor spent on the first page to Analytics. Not fair, right?

My Review about Reduce Bounce Rate wordpress plugin

We installed this plugin and we found really good impact. Our websites bounce rate started reducing. It takes one or two weeks to see impact on google analytics page. Here In this article, we given screen shot of our google analytics page.

how to add google analytics to wordpress footer

Google analytics became primary requirement of every websites. Google analytics provides every aspect of data with all type of user behavior and information. Where from user came to your site. How much time user spends on user website. which pages are most popular in your website.

Similarly wordpress is widely used for creating websites. So here in this article I will show you how to add google analytics in wordpress footer.

how to add google analytics to wordpress footer

Need google analytics account

First you need the google analytics account, If you don’t have than,  Go to the Google Analytics site and create a new account. There are many sites or check for YouTube video for getting the google analytics code from site.

Add Google Analytics script to Your WordPress Theme

Login to wordpress admin panel, Then goto “Appearance->editor” section. Then open footer.php file in editor. Before “” close tag put your google analytices code there. After adding analytics code save the file.

how to add google analytics to wordpress footer
how to add google analytics to wordpress footer

This is easiest step to add the google analytics to your wordpress theme.

There are many plugins which will give you facility to add google analytics to your wordpress site. Here we recommend you to use following wordpress plugin for adding the google analytics.

WP Google Analytics (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-analytics/)

how to add google analytics to wordpress footer
how to add google analytics to wordpress footer

WP Google Analytics makes it easy to track your site’s usage, with lots of helpful additional data.

Features:

  • Uses Google’s asynchronous tracking method which is faster and more reliable.
  • Automatically tracks site speed
  • Option to log outgoing links as events
  • Option to log 404 errors as events
  • Use custom variables in Google Analytics to track additional data on page views including:
    • Author
    • Categories
    • Tags
    • Context (such as home, category, post, author, etc)
    • Date
    • Logged in
    • Anything – Use the built-in filter to add your own!
  • Allows you to ignore any user roles (administrators, editors, authors, etc)