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Agreed. I'd imagined a site like Stack Overflow would have a very high bounce rate.


They're the exception rather than the rule. The majority of the time you won't get any value from a visitor unless they complete an action while they're there. That's a bounce.

blog.yourcompany.com isn't doing it's job unless it engages someone enough to share the content / comment / find out more about the product and on...

StackOverflow have established dominance in organic search and buckets of engaged users: not many sites are in the same position.

Track any other action a user takes in-page like sharing/commenting with a GA event.


I guess they have their own method to gather statistics instead of depending on google.


Luckily, it's JavaScript, so you can just look at the home page and see if they are or aren't.

Line 3435 (for me, I'm logged in) holds the answer.




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