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Returning Visitor

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Formula

Divide the amount of return visitors to your site by the amount of total unique visitors for a given time

What is a Returning Visitor

The returning visitor metric is the percentage of visits from people who have visited your website before. The returning visitor metric is measured as the number of visits from returning visitors that is divided by the overall number of visits. 

Benefits of using Returning Visitor

When the returning visitor metric is measured for a group web pages or individual web pages, it only tells what content is seen by returning visitors. Compared to visits per visitor, returning visitor metric does not tell which content is seen frequently by similar visitors.

See that when you have three or more sites under the same account, return visits could source from visitors who are new to the site you are assessing, but who have already visited one of your websites. 

How is a Visitor Determined?

A visitor is determined through a cookie. That simply denotes that the return visit rate is inaccurate by visitors who don’t accept and/or remove cookies. 

Even if someone did not convert as a new visitor, you have sufficient impression to get them to come back. That denotes the conversion procedure on the return visit will be simpler than it might be the first time they discover your website.

You will need to separate the return visitor conversion rate and determine how to boost that. 

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