Where readers go next

For every page: how many sessions landed there, how many left from there, and the five pages readers went to next — the honest test of whether the internal links work.

What it is

Per-page entry, exit and bounce figures plus a ranked list of next destinations, derived by ordering each session's page views and walking them oldest to newest. Bounce is defined narrowly as landing on a page and leaving from it without going anywhere else.

Also called: user journey · internal links working · entry and exit pages · bounce rate

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Where readers go next
Won
54%
Avg cycle
11d
Pipeline
$448k
JanSep
One page's detail showing entries, exits, bounce and the ranked 'where they went next' list. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Each session's page views are collected in order; the last element is the landing page and the first is the exit.
  2. 2Entries and organic entries are credited to the landing page; exits to the exit page.
  3. 3Walking the ordered list produces from → to pairs, and the top five destinations are kept per page.
  4. 4Bounce rate is the smaller of entries and exits over entries, so it can never exceed 100 per cent.
Why we built it

The comment names the question it answers: "Where people go NEXT: the honest test of whether this page's internal links work." Internal linking is repeatedly prescribed by the audit's striking-distance proposal and enforced in the writer's rules — this is the measurement that says whether any of it worked.

The problem
  • Internal link effectiveness was unmeasurable.
  • Landing and exit behaviour was not attributed to specific pages.
Sound familiar?
What you get
The five most common next pages per page
Entry, exit and a bounce figure that cannot exceed 100 per cent
Proof that internal linking work changed reader behaviour

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