Every marketer and webmaster knows what bounce rate is. But not many know how bounce rate is calculated.

Kissmetrics does a superb job of breaking down the components of bounce rate in this insightful post. They even have an equation for bounce rate: Rb – Tv / Te.

In other words, bounce rate = total number of visits viewing one page only divided by total entries to page.

The post also contains a cool infographic that highlights bounce rate by industry and also offers helpful tips for improving bounce rates.

While bounce rate is a primary key performance indicator to keep an eye on, so are page depth, time on site and few other top metrics to watch.

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