Weird info from google analytics?

[ocelot]

Hi

Could anyone explain what these visits are in Google Analytics?  Under traffic sources and organic I am seeing lots of entries with data like below.  Any ideas what kind of traffic this is?  Is it a bot and if so what is their purpose of it and is it recommended that you block it?

Pages/Visit 1.00

Avg. Time on Site 00:00:00

% New Visits : 100%

Bounce Rate: 100.00%

Many Thanks

[KeriMorgret]

It is people visiting just one page and leaving. They might be on there for five minutes, but because they aren't doing anything else on your site (like clicking to another page), there is no way the time can be recorded.

In your situation, I'd look at what organic keywords are most associated with this data. Are you writing about calico fabrics and at one point mentioned cats, so you're getting visits from people searching for calico cats and they're leaving? Look at your landing pages, are there particular pages with high bounce rates? Is there a browser with a high bounce rate? Maybe something isn't rendering right, maybe there's a link going to a 404 page, etc.

[Keszi]

Hi Ian,

As far as I have understood, Time on site is calculated as the time spent between the first pageview of a visit and the last pageview of a visit. In addition, if there is only one page viewed then GA cannot calculate the Time spent on the specific page.

Time on Site is not a "ticker", so basically what happens in your case is, that people enter the landing page and they don't continue reading in deeper the site.

Try to be more engaging and get people to enter funnels on your site.

I hope that helped,

Istvan