Bounce rate increased by 50%

[karlheinz.toni]

Hello everyone,

with the launch of our new responsive design, the bounce rate for our fashion blog has increased to almost 80% (that's a 50% increase).

http://www.catwalkqueen.tv

Does anyone notice any really bad don'ts on the new site? All comments and feedback appreciated.

Bests,
C

[EGOL]

Do you have click location screenshots for some of your most important pages as created by CrazyEgg or Clicky?

If you don't have that then you can put a few pages of the old design back up with these services running to see what links on your old design engaged visitors.  This is not an ideal solution but might tell you what your current site lacks that previous site had.

It did not look at your page because my visitors always behave in ways that surprise me.   Instead of going with my own guesses, I try to learn what works with the visitor.

[djlaidler]

Hi Semantique,

Hmm from a quick look I would look at the following.

Page Speed - Check out the home page on Pingdom http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/recfTiYWP/http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/

I would look to crunch the images for a start, they were very slow to load, the background image alone is almost 300kb.

Caching images would be recommended, ask you devs to combine Javascript files OR stylesheets where possible...

Dan