Great job! It seems we're on pair. I also started blogging in November of 2018 and have similar results (last month ~91K sessions). As for the bounce rate and session duration - I think it's mainly due to the traffic coming from Google Discovery. When a post gets there, many people click but don't necessarily stay long. I'm currently looking for ways to improve that on my blog. Anyway, keep up the good work!
So true. What's more, I've even tried other, more privacy-friendly analytics tools (namely Matomo and GhostBoard) and they both give slightly different results than GA - even when considering session duration.
Great job! It seems we're on pair. I also started blogging in November of 2018 and have similar results (last month ~91K sessions). As for the bounce rate and session duration - I think it's mainly due to the traffic coming from Google Discovery. When a post gets there, many people click but don't necessarily stay long. I'm currently looking for ways to improve that on my blog. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Most Ad-blockers block the google analytics tracking on the sites, I think we are getting more views than the data showing in google analytics.
These days people have less attention span, they just find the solution and move away.
So true. What's more, I've even tried other, more privacy-friendly analytics tools (namely Matomo and GhostBoard) and they both give slightly different results than GA - even when considering session duration.
I have tested once by adding Anti-AdBlock to my blog, it improves bounce rate and session duration.