A well-designed plugin that helps track the Adjusted Bounce Rate in Google Analytics, and improve accuracy of certain engagement metrics.
| Author: | Grant K Norwood (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.5 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.1.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 13-05-2014 |
| Last updated: | 06-04-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 84 |
| Rated by: | 5 |
| Plugin URI: | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adjusted-... |
| Total downloads: | 2 730 |
| Active installs: | 50+ |
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Google Analytics does not properly track some important engagement metrics like Avg Session Duration, Avg Session Duration, and Bounce Rate. This plugin uses a commonly-accepted JavaScript method of improving the accuracy of these stats.
This plugin addresses the issues as identified by the Google Analytics team at:
Others have also blogged about their own solutions at:
- http://padicode.com/blog/analytics/the-real-bounce-rate/
- http://briancray.com/posts/time-on-site-bounce-rate-get-the-real-numbers-in-google-analytics
See http://grantnorwood.com/wordpress/plugins/adjusted-bounce-rate/ for more information about the plugin and the author, or visit the GitHub repo at https://github.com/grantnorwood/adjusted-bounce-rate to fork my code or submit an issue.
Features
- Set the engagement tracking event interval. (Defaults to 10 secs.)
- Set the max engagement time, which allows you to customize when the session should be considered abandoned. (Defaults to 20 mins.)
- Set the minimum engagement time, which can be used to set an initial amount of time required to count the user has having engaged. (Defaults to 10 secs.)
- Customize the event Category, Action and Label names to be displayed in Google Analytics.
- Create goals in Google Analytics based on the time on page. (GA goals only support session duration by default!)
- Uses either the old pageTracker code, the newer asynchronous code, or the newest Universal Analytics code.
- Choose header or footer placement for the code.
- Compatible with Ajaxify jQuery plugin.
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