Adjusted Bounce Rate

Description

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:

• http://analytics.blogspot.com/2012/07/tracking-adjusted-bounce-rate-in-google.html

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

1. Set the engagement tracking event interval. (Defaults to 10 secs.)
2. Set the max engagement time, which allows you to customize when the session should be
   considered abandoned. (Defaults to 20 mins.)
3. 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.)
4. Customize the event Category, Action and Label names to be displayed in Google Analytics.
5. Create goals in Google Analytics based on the time on page. (GA goals only support session duration by default!)
6. Uses either the old pageTracker code, the newer asynchronous code, or the newest Universal Analytics code.
7. Choose header or footer placement for the code.
8. Compatible with Ajaxify jQuery plugin.