No, not how fast your jiggly bits bounce! In search engine optimization terms, bounce rate is the percentage of visitors to your Introduction who do not click any of the choices below the introduction, but instead close the window or otherwise leave your story. You can calculate (an imprecise) bounce rate by: Viewing your Story Map adding together the total views of all Chapters 2.X dividing the result by the views of your Introduction (Chapter 1.1) subtracting that result from 1 Bounce Rate = 1 - sum(Chapter 2.X views) / (Chapter 1.1 views) Marketers look at bounce rate to judge whether or not people who click a link in their search results found the page to be what they were searching for. If they bounce, that means that page wasn't what they wanted, or it was all they wanted and they felt they didn't need to see more. This is just for fun, don't agonize over your bounce rate. It's not the most important metric, just an easy one to find. If your Introduction is hot, it's possible your visitors simply couldn't last through it! After 7,388 views on the Introduction of my story OBGYN, the bounce rate is roughly 34%.
Interesting way to look at a stories statistics. I never really paid much attention to the view count on my chapters, but I probably should since the views to like ratio could help me determine which of my chapters are really bad. Kayla's Job: 1 - (67384 / 68049) = .01 Kayla's Reunion: 1- (15912/20904) = .24 I don't think it's a surprise my older story which has a very short intro has a smaller bounce rate than the newer one with an actual backstory for the intro
Views is an unreliable stat as they are not the user's unique views (every user can only create 1 single view per chapter) but site views (every page expression, may it come from a logged-in user, the story owner, or a web crawler, counts toward the total views.) If I want to reach a chapter within the story, I usually go to the story (which adds a view to the introduction,) go to the story map and search the specific chapter. Similarly, you could read the introduction and read chapter 2.1 before going to the story map to get to 2.2. In that case, the number of views for the chapters 2.x might be higher than for the Introduction chapter.
I agree. As an author I rarely take notice of the views, for me it's the likes. I keep tally by doing an average likes per chapter.
Nvm. I misread the OP... Okay, with that out of the way here I go to try again for 7 Days of Incest. So the formula would be B = 1 - sum(Chapter 2.X views) / (Chapter 1.1 views). Got it. I currently have 3 chapters at the 2nd level, only 1 of which actually continues the story. But their current views total to 45438. My total chapter 1 views are 93970, so that means that B = 1 - (45438/93970), which when plugged into a calculator gives me B = 0.5164627009. Multiply that by 1oo to convert to percentile form gives me 51.64627009, which is a long string of digits so lets round to the nearest hundredth (to keep some degree of accuracy). Therefore my final bounce rate is approximately 51.65%. I'd calculate it for The Rulebook, but there's just too many chapter 2 options to make it worth doing. Also, this loses even more accuracy if one has a mod change the location of some of your chapters.
