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Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

mfarney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:35:50 -0000

We all should be careful how our bounce rate acts. If it's above 20% then we have a problem. A smaller bounce rate is always good.It means that people spend more time on the site and they check out more then one page.
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Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Orville Chomer — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:40:32 -0000

Thanks for the common sense. It's obvious that there has to be stuff on the site good enough to engage the user. It is definitely something that I am working on.

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Jim Bursch — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:44:02 -0000

I don't buy it.

While your design points are good and valid, I don't think it is healthy to approach your users like one of those speed-dating events. If you focus on just the first 10 seconds, you are not focussed on developing a relationship with users.

Of course you can't develop a relationship if you drive them away in the first 10 seconds, but to say "Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds" is an exageration that I don't think is a good message, or a good way to approach users and your web site.

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Ed Kohler — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:46:40 -0000

Great points. It seems important to analyze what pages people are spending the least time on to see if those pages are particularly troubling, or if they're pages where people are getting what they're after quickly.

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Ada — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:04:08 -0000

I really liked this post. Good pointers on something that is often overlooked.

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Karthik Bhat — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:44:45 -0000

Good One!!! But here, aren't we assuming that Google's SEO is 100% accurate and 100% of Google generated visitors are the targeted audience for a given website?

Isn't it possible that the above graph can be interpreted differently? A successful website that has enough number of people to make up its critical mass, and who are reaching a large section of their targeted audience, might look at the above 44% of people as NOT their targeted users??

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

noah kagan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:20:24 -0000

God you are the consumer genius!

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

sermoon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:17:31 -0000

This is a good article.

Very informative and clear

Re: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds

Praveen — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:26:58 -0000

Thanks.