How new Instant Pages Affect Analytics?

[IM_Learner]

I am sure everyone around here is aware of Instant Pages that Google introduced at Inside Search Event. How does it affect Analytics?

Since the page is pre-loading, does that get recorded as a visitor? If the user doesn’t click on the link, will that impact the bounce rate?

[KeriMorgret]

You're not the only one with that question. Google replied to WebProNews  at http://www.webpronews.com/google-instant-pages-analytics-2011-06

See that post for a more complete response, but in brief they said that they're only going to "only issues the prerender hint when it is confident that it knows where the user will click, in some cases it will mispredict, resulting in a page that has appeared to load but was never actually shown to the user." and go on to say that there's a new page visibility API that should help weed out a false positive.