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by lobster_johnson 4768 days ago
No, that's not the definition of a bounce. From Google Analytics' own documentayion [1]:

> Bounce rate is the percentage of visits that go only one page before exiting a site.

That's all. That's all it can be, because computers cannot, by definition, know if a user read a page. One can compute a probability, based on things like scrolling speed and visible page elements, but that's hard to standarize under a single umbrella term.

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009409?hl=en-GB