51 Face palm

Belex on Aug. 25, 2011

if you are not familiar with the trope
put on a bus then check it out on
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus
since I was talking about confusing
statistics yesterday I thought I would bring up the bounce rate of
the site over the last month. Normally for a website a bounce (when
a viewer looks at one page and then leaves) is bad. If a returning
viewer does it on a webcomic its not that bad. Sure it would be
better if they hung around and up-ed the page views a bit more but it
most likely means they checked the most recent update and left. I
had a fairly tolerable bounce rate when I started the comic. It was
between 20-30% with 60% of bounces being from returning visitors.
Then suddenly it stooped. It wasnt gradual either. It had been
declining a bit (1-2% a week) then it suddenly droped to 0. for a
few weeks I assumed that something in the code was broken but then
about 2 weeks ago I got one return reader who bounced. Looking at
the last month then I have a 0.09% bounce rate. With the most common
number of pages viewed per visit at 2 by far. I understand the
numbers I am just not sure what is causing them. My best guess is
that since I have done my best to make the author comments
entertaining as well as the comic itself that people go from the main
page with the blog to the most recent page to check out what witty
thing I wrote in the comments. A bit egotistical of me I know but
it's the best I have thought of so far, maybe one of you will have a
better (or at least funnier) idea. If that is the case though dont
worry I will be back tomorrow with more odd things to say about the
comic or my life such that it is.