: Does a user coming to my site solely to hit a login button count as a bounce in analytics? I have what seems like a super high bounce rate. I'm trying to understand exactly why. One thing

@Murray155

If a user comes to my site, only to press a single anchor tag which takes them to a subdomain, then does this count as a bounce?


If you (1) track traffic on the login page in question, and (2) do not track the subdomain as part of the same site, then yes.

Change either of those things, and you won't see a bounce for that.

To find out if this is the cause of the high bounce rate, I would suggest creating a new web property that is for all of your domain ("mysite.com"). (You may or may not wish to keep this property long-term.) If the bounce rate is high on your current "www.mysite.com" only property but low on the "mysite.com" property, then your theory about your high bounce rate is correct.

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@Rambettina238

If all you are using on your website is basic tracking then yes, this would count as a bounce.

It is possible to set up event tracking on links so that if someone clicks on a high engagement linkthat takes them offsite, then this would trigger an additional hit and therefore they wouldn't count as a bounce. Event tracking can be implemented with the following syntax for Google Universal Analytics


ga('send', 'event', [eventCategory], [eventAction], [eventLabel],
[eventValue], [fieldsObject]);


This could be implemented on your site as:

> <a href="coolprogram.mysite.com" onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'Click',
> 'External Link Click', 'Login coolprogram.mysite.com');">

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