: Has Google stopped offering it's "Weighted" Analytics sorting filter? I am trying to better evaluate my user's engagement and came across a feature of Google Analytics that I didn't know about,

@Shelley277

You need to create a custom report firstly with less columns and have pageviews column next to bounce rate column.

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@Merenda212

You need to sort the data by Bounce rate to enable the greyed out "Wighted sort"
By default it is sorted by pageviews.

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@Angie530

Weighted sort is intended to filter outlier data from the grid view - for example, if you had the following pages (sorted by Bounce Rate) it's obvious that you'll want to pay more attention to items #3 and #5 over the others, even though a descending bounce rate sort would place the low-traffic pages at the top:

# URI Hits Bounce Rate
1 /example-abc/ 3 100%
2 /example/ 1 100%
3 /popular/ 1000 99.98%
4 /contact/ 9 52%
5 /semi-popular/ 552 40%


From the Weighted Sort documentation at Google Analytics Help:


With weighted sort, our system takes into account the number of
visits, bringing [rows] with more visits to the top of the list.


With the Bounce Rate column selected, you can switch to Weighted Sort to get a list more like this:

# URI Hits Bounce Rate
1 /popular/ 1000 99.98%
2 /semi-popular/ 552 40%
3 /contact/ 9 52%
4 /example-abc/ 3 100%
5 /example/ 1 100%


Update: ... and, although it's not listed at Google's help center, you will also need to disable any Advanced Segments you may be using to filter data in order to enable this feature.

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