UX & Analytics
A high bounce rate means visitors arrive on your site and leave without clicking anything, filling in a form, or visiting another page. If that's happening at scale, your site has a problem — and it's costing you.
Find out why visitors are bouncing — freeThe most common reason for a bounce is simple: the page didn't deliver what the visitor expected. This is especially true for traffic coming from search — if your page ranks for a query it doesn't actually answer, visitors will hit the back button immediately. Matching your content to the true intent behind each query is the foundation of a low bounce rate.
53% of mobile users abandon a page that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. They don't bounce because they disliked your content — they never saw it. Page speed is the most overlooked cause of high bounce rates, and it's one of the most fixable.
What's causing your bounce rate?
Velrix identifies the specific issues pushing visitors away.
Within 50 milliseconds of landing on a page, visitors have formed a first impression. If the design looks amateur, the headline is vague, or the page feels cluttered, visitors make a snap decision to leave. You can't unsee a bad first impression.
If visitors read your content and there's nothing obvious to do next, they leave. Every page needs a clear path forward — a related article, a CTA, a link to your services. Without that, the only option is the back button.
A high bounce rate on mobile specifically is almost always a UX issue. Tiny text, buttons too close together, slow load times, or a layout that breaks on smaller screens — any of these will push mobile visitors away. Since most traffic is now mobile, this is often the root cause.
A Velrix audit shows you the speed issues, UX problems, and content gaps that are driving your bounce rate up — with specific, prioritised fixes you can action immediately.
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