christian_wilde
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5 meaningless, not proven or misleading assumptions about AMP
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:32AM (#13882776)
Cool! That's good news :)
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:58AM (#13839982)
Bounce rate was just used as an example. I agree that it can be meaningless depending on the type of website.
The problem is not about bounce rate, is about cookies and the inability of tracking users correctly. Give it another read ;)
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:55AM (#13839958)
They refer to the moment you open a AMP result.
Before, there was no way to get the original URL. Now they display a "link" icon on the top so you can get the original URL.
From the results themselves, no, there is no way to bypass AMP (like there is with App-indexing)
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:47AM (#13839906)
Did you actually read the post? :)
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:45AM (#13839894)
Yes, solution is sub-optimal, as djrogers says :)
Also: using browser's native sharing option, shares the Google URL's, not the "real" one
Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:37AM (#13839352)
Completely agree
BUT, the problem stated in the article has nothing to do with that behaviour. It refers to the inability to track the user journey correctly due to Google's AMP distribution system. It doesn't matter if you click on an AMP result an go back in 2 seconds, or if you click on an AMP result, read 30 seconds, and click on a link inside the content that takes you to the original website: both cases are considered bounces.