Comments on: This I Believe [A Manifesto for Web Marketers & Analysts]

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:08:52 +0000

Thanks so much for the tip, Avinash! We'll give it a try.

By: Avinash Kaushik

Avinash Kaushik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:12:29 +0000

Alec: It is not that complicated. :)

If you have said buttons you can simply encode them with a onclick event. Here's my feedburner link as an example:

a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/goal/feed');" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/OccamsRazorByAvinash" title="Subscribe to my feed, Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"

Above is not a javascript button of course. But you can do something similar.

The javascript:pageTracker will send a "fake page view" into GA (or whatever too you use) and that second "hit" will be recorded causing that session not to be counted as a bounce (as it should not be).

Hope this helps.

Avinash.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:46:14 +0000

In your blog entry correct?

You mentioned that "Bounce rate … measures the number of people who landed on your site and refused to give you even one single click!" ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/stop-bouncing-tips-for-website-success.html)

What happens if a user clicks a javascript button that then downloads software from another domain, like a subdomain, and then restarts the browser? In such as case, the user came to the page and left from the same page. The user did "click" the js button.

Those seem like clicks, but Google Analytics would still report them as bounces since they are not page clicks. Is that correct?

Please share thoughts.

It's a healthy debate going at my company :)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:54:35 +0000

I believe web analytics can impact the world of nonprofit fundraising.

Through analytics we can understand the hearts and minds of our users / donors.

We can tell them a life changing story, challenge them to get involved, and respond to their needs through data analysis.

I believe in data analysis for good.

By: Data Entry Services

Data Entry Services — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:56:29 +0000

I followed some of your links and learned a few things. I never even paid attention to the "Bounce Rate." I'll be checking back again. Thanks for the knowlege!

By: ToddySM

ToddySM — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:20:54 +0000

I like that you believe in people, Avinash! I believe in them too :) People are the one who made the progress for over so many centuries. Machines (and tools) can help us but cannot do all the work for us. And besides where will the fun be if we let the tools everything for us? :)