As of September 2023, the health and beauty industry recorded the highest bounce rate compared to other e-commerce sectors. That month, health and beauty sites had a bounce rate of around 51.6 percent. The overall bounce rate for e-commerce was approximately 38.7 percent. The term "bounce rate" refers to the percentage of website visitors who leave the site after viewing a single page.

Among selected consumer electronics retailers worldwide, apple.com recorded the highest bounce rate in April 2024, at approximately 55.3 percent. Rival samsung.com had a slightly lower bounce rate of nearly 54 percent. Among selected consumer electronics e-tailers, huawei.com had the lowest bounce rate at 30.91 percent. Bounce rate is a marketing term used in web traffic analysis reflecting the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave without taking any further action like making a purchase or viewing other pages within the website ("bounce"). A sector with growth potential With one of the lowest online shopping cart abandonment rates globally in 2022, consumer electronics is a burgeoning e-commerce segment that places itself at the crossroads between technological progress and digital transformation. Boosted by the pandemic-induced surge in online shopping, the global market size of consumer electronics e-commerce was estimated at more than 340 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 and forecast to nearly double less than five years later. Amazon and Apple lead the charts in electronics e-commerce With more than 59 billion U.S. dollars in e-commerce net sales in the consumer electronics segment in 2022, apple.com was the uncontested industry leader. The global powerhouse surpassed e-commerce giants amazon.com and jd.com with more than ten billion U.S. dollars difference in online sales in the consumer electronics category.

Bounce rate is defined as the percentage of online visitors who abandon a website after viewing one page. During the surveyed period, the global health and beauty e-commerce industry recorded its highest bounce rate in February 2024 at around 49.9 percent.

In December 2024, qvcuk.com had the lowest bounce rate among the leading beauty and cosmetic websites in the United Kingdom (UK). The site recorded a bounce rate of 36.83 percent. The bounce rate measures the average percentage of website visitors who leave (“bounce”) after only viewing one page on the website. A low bounce rate generally refers to a better-performing website.

In April 2024, Naked Wines had the lowest bounce rate among selected alcohol e-commerce websites worldwide, at around 37.5 percent. In comparison, on-demand alcohol delivery platform Drizly had the highest bounce rate, at more than 75 percent. Bounce rate is a marketing term used in web traffic analysis reflecting the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave without taking any further action like making a purchase or viewing other pages within the website ("bounce").

In 2023, the bounce rate, which indicates the number of people who exit a website or online store without clicking on any link, was highest for the Direct channel, with an average of 52 percent.

Context

The Google Merchandise Store sells Google branded merchandise. The data is typical of what you would see for an ecommerce website.

Content

The sample dataset contains Google Analytics 360 data from the Google Merchandise Store, a real ecommerce store. The Google Merchandise Store sells Google branded merchandise. The data is typical of what you would see for an ecommerce website. It includes the following kinds of information:

Traffic source data: information about where website visitors originate. This includes data about organic traffic, paid search traffic, display traffic, etc. Content data: information about the behavior of users on the site. This includes the URLs of pages that visitors look at, how they interact with content, etc. Transactional data: information about the transactions that occur on the Google Merchandise Store website.

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Acknowledgements

Data from: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/bigquery-public-data:google_analytics_sample.ga_sessions_20170801

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