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## Bounce Rate
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The percentage of visitors who land on a page and leave without performing an engaging action. By default, Plausible counts a visit as a “bounce” if the visitor does **not** either:
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The percentage of visitors who land on a page and leave without meaningfully engaging with your site. By default, Plausible marks a visit as a bounce unless the visitor does at least one of the following:
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- view more than one page, or
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- trigger a [custom events](custom-event-goals.md)
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* Views more than one page
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* Triggers a [custom event](custom-event-goals.md)
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To keep accuracy higher, you can optionally select which custom events you want to exclude from the bounce rate calculation too. To do that, mark any such events as "non-interactive" as explained [here](https://plausible.io/docs/custom-event-goals#trigger-custom-events-manually-with-a-javascript-function). These events are tracked but do not affect the bounce rate.
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Some events fire automatically or in the background and you may not want to count them as engagement. You can mark any such event as "non-interactive" to exclude it from the bounce rate calculation. Like this:
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```js
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plausible('Custom Event', {interactive:false})
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```
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Non-interactive events are still tracked and recorded normally. However, visitors who only trigger these events will still be counted as bounced unless they also view another page.
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## Browser
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Similar to scroll depth, this metric relies on `engagement` events being sent by our tracking script for every pageview when the user navigates to a new page or switches tabs. This allows us to provide you with a more precise and reliable measure of user engagement which includes visitors who bounce away from your pages and which does not include time not spent actively on your pages.
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<details>
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<summary>Legacy time on page metric</summary>
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Prior to a tracker script upgrade in March 2025, we used a different method to calculate time on page, instead relying on timestamp of each `pageview` event. This method was both prone to over-estimating time spent on a page and was unable to provide measurements on pages where visitors bounced.
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For dates prior to the new tracker upgrade, the legacy time on page metric is displayed along with a note in the tooltip.
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</details>
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## Total Conversions
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If the same goal is completed multiple times by the same visitor, all the completed conversions will be counted within the total conversions.
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