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new characteristic ratio: rate of interested visitors (advanced bounce rate) #9633

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hpvd opened this issue Jan 26, 2016 · 2 comments
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c: New plugin For features that probably will not be added to Matomo, but could be implemented as plugins. Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.

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hpvd commented Jan 26, 2016

Conventional bounce rate in most cases is defined as rate of visitors only visiting one page.

But with this definition "a bounce" does not necessarily mean a visitor is not interested in the page content he saw.

A discussion on this could be found e.g. in #9199 starting #9199 (comment)

Literature argues to same direction telling a bounce can also be defined as a very short visit (5-10s) with no other interaction,
e.g. Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. Avinsh Kaushik, 2007, p. 168 - 170, Sybex, ISBN 0-470-13065-2, mentioned in wikipedia (in german part: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_Rate)

In the past it was from technical pov not possible to detected and with this classify the length of only onepage visits
(maybe this was also an influencing factor for conventional bounce definition?)
With great Piwik's new heart beat feature it is possible classify the length of only onepage visits.

=> with all this background and possibilities given,
it's seems to be the obvious consequence to
to start giving another new characteristic ratio to describe performance of a webpage:
"the rate of visitors interested in a page"

This one could be possibly determined by
the rate of visitors staying longer than e.g. 10 seconds and /or do interaction (e.g. event) with one of the elements on the websites.

This is the advanced version of conventional bounce rate
only possible with piwik :-)
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@hpvd hpvd changed the title new chararcteristic ratio:rate of interested vsitors (advanced bounce rate) new characteristic ratio: rate of interested visitors (advanced bounce rate) Jan 26, 2016
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hpvd commented Jan 26, 2016

to make it easy in a first step one can simply use the visits having no visit time because vsitor leave before first heart beat send (depending on heartbeat period set, default is 15)

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tsteur commented Jan 26, 2016

That would be doable I presume. Could be even done in a new plugin in the beginning if someone is keen to work on it.

@tsteur tsteur added Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. c: New plugin For features that probably will not be added to Matomo, but could be implemented as plugins. labels Jan 26, 2016
@mattab mattab added this to the Long term milestone Mar 31, 2016
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
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