The percentage of visitors who meaningfully engage with your landing page instead of bouncing.
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Engagement rate measures how many visitors actually interact with your page after clicking through. It is the opposite of bounce rate. If bounce rate is 60%, engagement rate is 40%.
A visitor is considered engaged if they scroll, click, spend meaningful time on the page, or navigate to another page. The exact definition depends on your analytics setup, but the principle is the same: did they stick around or leave immediately?
Engagement rate tells you whether your landing page delivers on the promise of your ad or email. A high click rate with a low engagement rate means your ad is attracting clicks but your page is disappointing visitors.
This is where traffic quality shows up. You can buy cheap clicks from broad audiences, but if those visitors bounce immediately, you have wasted your money. Engagement rate separates real interest from accidental clicks.
Track engagement rate by traffic source. You might find that LinkedIn traffic engages at 50% while Google Display traffic engages at 15%. That insight helps you allocate budget.
Engagement rate is the quality check on your traffic. It tells you whether the people clicking on your ads and emails actually care about what they find on your landing page.
High engagement means visitors are reading, scrolling, and exploring. Low engagement means they took one look and left. The difference between these two scenarios determines whether your traffic converts into leads.
Engagement rate reveals the gap between your ad promise and your page delivery. If you promise a solution to a specific problem in your ad, your landing page needs to immediately show that solution. Any mismatch causes bounces.
This metric also exposes traffic quality issues. Cheap traffic from broad targeting often has low engagement. Expensive traffic from precise targeting often has high engagement. Engagement rate helps you decide which trade-off is worth it.
Improving engagement rate makes your entire funnel more efficient. More engaged visitors means more leads from the same traffic. You get better results without increasing spend.
Find engagement rate in Google Analytics 4. It is reported as "Engagement rate" by default, calculated as sessions with engagement divided by total sessions.
Break this down by:
To improve engagement rate:
Test your above-the-fold section first. This is what visitors see before scrolling and where most bounces happen.
A company runs ads about "reducing employee churn" but their landing page headline says "HR software for growing teams." Visitors bounce because the message does not match. Changing the landing page headline to match the ad increases engagement rate from 35% to 55%.
An e-commerce site has a 30% engagement rate on mobile. Investigation shows the page takes 6 seconds to load on mobile connections. After optimisation, load time drops to 2 seconds and engagement rate increases to 45%.
A consultancy landing page has a 40% engagement rate. The above-the-fold section contains a generic stock image and vague headline. Replacing this with a specific headline, clear value proposition, and relevant visual increases engagement to 58%.
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