Engagement measures bounce rate on what people actually did, not on how many pages loaded, and then the same measure per landing page, which is the form you can act on. It sits under Visitors in the panel.
01 · How Loghound defines a bounce
- People only. Human and likely-human visits; bots and crawlers are left out.
- Finished visits only. A visit still going on has a page count that is still moving.
- One page and under 10 seconds of engaged time is a bounce. One page and 10 seconds or more is a visit that read a page and stayed, counted separately.
- What could not be measured is shown separately. Without the beacon there is no engaged time, so those visits are never mixed into the rate.
- A visit that loaded no page is not counted at all. Nobody can bounce off a page they never reached.
Engaged time only runs while the tab is visible, focused and within 30 seconds of a real scroll, click or key press, so 10 seconds of it means sustained attention. See The four time numbers.
02 · The three pages of the view
- Bounce rate: the rate over visits that ran the beacon, plus Read one page and stayed, One page, engagement unknown and, for comparison, the conventional definition (one page view, bots included). An Outcomes table splits every visit: bounced, one page but engaged, more than one page, and the same without a beacon.
- By landing page: the same definition per landing page, with the bounce rate and the bounced and engaged counts. Always read the count next to the rate: a rate measured on three visits proves nothing.
- Signed-in visitors: everyone your site named through the beacon. It has its own entry in the navigation; see Signed-in visitors.