How to Reduce your Shopify Store’s Bounce Rate

There are numerous benefits of reducing your store’s bounce rate. The first is that it can improve your site’s SEO. This can grow traffic and build revenue for your store.

Another benefit is that the longer a customer is on your site, the more chance there is that they will buy something on your website.

In addition, the fewer people who bounce, the more chance you have to subscribe them to something like your mailing list or push notifications. So here are some of the ways that you can improve your bounce rate.

Number one reason why people bounce is that your site is too slow. If your site takes longer than 4 seconds to load on a desktop or seven seconds on a mobile, there is a 25% chance that they’ll abandon your website. And for every second longer than that, you’ll lose another 7% of your audience.

When the average website takes between 8 and 11 seconds to load, this can mean that many websites are losing between 56% and 77% of their audience. These all are counted as bounces. Therefore, you should look at some themes and apps that can help improve your speed, like Booster.

If there is too much clutter on a page you’re likely to confuse audiences on what to do next. Website pages should have as much white space on them as they have text and content. Pages should be small at around 300-400 words. Landing pages, those designed to have lots of detail on them can be longer, but they need to be interwind with opportunities for the audience to move onto the next step in the purchasing journey.

Don’t neglect your SEO meta description. Your page’s description should be honest and tell the audience on Google and other search engines what the page is about. If your site is about Boys Shoes, make sure that is in the description with details of what you offer.

The more specific you are, the fewer people who aren’t your target audience will click on your page. You will get lower traffic in the short term. But you will get more concentrated traffic on the audience that you want. This in turn will reduce your bounce rate, which can increase rankings and then you can expect higher levels of traffic of a higher quality.

An SEO app like this one can help with meta descriptions.