http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate Blog dedicated to tag management, universal tag and best practice tagging Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-155 ali Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:58:25 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-155 Hi Alex, Regarding analysis, you could always look at the bounce rate per browser to see if you're in fact getting a higher bounce rate for the new Safari browser compared to others. If so, then you know the increase is very likely due to Top Sites. Hi Alex,
Regarding analysis, you could always look at the bounce rate per browser to see if you’re in fact getting a higher bounce rate for the new Safari browser compared to others. If so, then you know the increase is very likely due to Top Sites.

]]> http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-154 Alexander C. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:52:05 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-154 Maybe one solution would that browser that automatically fetch content on website identify themself differently (eg. Safari-AutoUpdate/5.22.11 ...) So, this way Analytics and other could filter this false traffic out. Maybe one solution would that browser that automatically fetch content on website identify themself differently (eg. Safari-AutoUpdate/5.22.11 …) So, this way Analytics and other could filter this false traffic out.

]]> http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-153 Nanhi Mon, 25 May 2009 07:43:15 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-153 Computer World The recently-released version of Apple’s browser could have implications for your website reporting. I recently noticed a significant increase in the bounce rate on one of our client websites. As any web marketer will tell you, bounce rate is one of the key metrics of website performance. It’s a measure of single page visits to your website - people who arrive at your site, decide it’s not for them and then leave. Measuring bounce rate by browser type in Google Analytics. Intrigued See the article here: Safari 4 - how its Top Sites view can mess up your stats. Computer World The recently-released version of Apple’s browser could have implications for your website reporting. I recently noticed a significant increase in the bounce rate on one of our client websites. As any web marketer will tell you, bounce rate is one of the key metrics of website performance. It’s a measure of single page visits to your website – people who arrive at your site, decide it’s not for them and then leave. Measuring bounce rate by browser type in Google Analytics. Intrigued See the article here: Safari 4 – how its Top Sites view can mess up your stats.

]]> http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-152 Fulton Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:44:04 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-152 Same goes for Fast Dial in Firefox (and more of the same kind). Same goes for Fast Dial in Firefox (and more of the same kind).

]]> http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-151 ali Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:52:00 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-151 Thanks for the comment Brad. Your solution is probably the best workaround for the time being, but I'd have to imagine the folks at Apple are working on this. In fact, the default home page for Safari is apple.com so it looks to me like the company suffering from this the most when it comes to analysis is Apple. Thanks for the comment Brad.
Your solution is probably the best workaround for the time being, but I’d have to imagine the folks at Apple are working on this.
In fact, the default home page for Safari is apple.com so it looks to me like the company suffering from this the most when it comes to analysis is Apple.

]]> http://blog.tealium.com/web-analytics/the-impact-of-safari-top-sites-on-your-bounce-rate#comment-150 Brad Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:09:09 +0000 http://www.tealium.com/blog/?p=125#comment-150 During your testing was there any special about the Top Site traffic that would allow it specifically to be filtered? The other option would be to filter out all single-access traffic from Safari, which would artifically lower your bounce rate because some of that traffic would have been legitimate bounced traffic. Or would you recommend, when calculating bounce rate, that you filter out ALL Safari traffic? During your testing was there any special about the Top Site traffic that would allow it specifically to be filtered? The other option would be to filter out all single-access traffic from Safari, which would artifically lower your bounce rate because some of that traffic would have been legitimate bounced traffic. Or would you recommend, when calculating bounce rate, that you filter out ALL Safari traffic?

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