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This is a better approach, but I tend to open a page, see if it's an interesting topic in a few seconds, scroll to the bottom so that any images that don't load until you scroll to them get loaded and comments get loaded (for instance Disqus comments). After that I go back to HN and look for other interesting posts etc. Once I have more time or no internet connection I read the page.

So I think doing something like checking if the tab/page is active (http://stackoverflow.com/a/1760268/2227792) would work more accurate, though only when an internet connection is present.

However, if the post was really interesting I might look for what other posts the author has made or for an about page about the author. I'm not sure however if there is a timeout after which preforming an other action is seen as a "bounce".

It makes me wonder how relevant a bounce rate is on something like a blog-post, I think refer-less visits are more interesting as they come from users that have bookmarked your post and visit it again at a later moment.




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