Calculating page visit duration for bounced visits?

[offthemaptravels]

IS there any way on Google Analytics to calculate page visit duration for bounced visits? if so, what would need to be done?

[mikecp]

The definition of a bounce does not change. Any user that enters your site and leaves without interacting with the site again is a bounce.

The key phrase there is "interacting with the site". An interaction might be another pageview or an event.

The code listed above fires an event after 3 minutes, so those users are no longer classified as bouncers. They interacted again.

[offthemaptravels]

thanks. does adding the timeout method change the definition of a bounce on GA?

meaning, if someone bounces, i still want it to show as a bounce  - but I also want to see the time they were on the page.

[mikecp]

Completely inaccurate.

The Google search ranking algorithm is completely separate from that of Google Analytics. The search algorithm's definition of a bounce is based on when a user comes back to the SERPs after visiting your page. That metric wouldn't change no matter what you do to your Google Analytics (unless you somehow muck up the GA snippet so much that it causes page load delays and actually affects user behavior).

[offthemaptravels]

thanks, I was reading somewhere that it affects the actual bounce rate, making it lower than it is and at some point google would take notice  and lower rank.

how accurate is that?

[OptimizeSmart]

You need to add setTimeout() method in your Google Analytics Tracking code something like this:

_setTimeout(“_gaq.push(['trackEvent','Profitable Engagement','time on page more than 3 minutes'])”,180000);

For more details check out this post: http://www.seotakeaways.com/geek-guide-determining-reporting-real-bounce-rate/