Bounce rates for Safari very high

Help, site looks fine, how to find cause?

[hairycoo]

I'm looking at data from past year and a half, approx 1.5 million unique visits. Average bounce rate is 47% but Safari is 65% (130,000 visits so quite significant).

Drilling down by screen resolution

- 320 wide resolutions have 75% bounce rate (this is expected as I'm just getting round to making it mobile-friendly)

- but the rest 1280 and 1440 wide still up at ~65% (for both Mac and Win platforms). I've checked with Browsercam and it looks fine for safari 5 (most of these visits use safari 531 and 533).

Site doesn't use flash, it's got a very simple layout and it's low in graphics.

I'm stumped. What other data can I look at to find the cause? Or could it be that Safari users are more savvy and discerning and less easily pleased?

Any ideas? I'd really appreciate it.

[buckworks]

Would the previews on Safari's "Top Sites" start page feature have anything to do with this?

[hairycoo]

Not sure what that is as I don't use safari but my site is not that popular...

[hairycoo]

I've also just discovered that Mozilla 1.9 for Linux (as it appears in google analytics) has a bounce rate of 99-100% so clearly something is very off there (about 6,000 visits).

This isn't Firefox as that's listed separately and I can't find anything to indicate which mozilla browser this is...

[hairycoo]

I checked and there are no significant differences between Safari bounce rates for new and returning visitors (which would indicate top sites being the cause).

[caribguy]

Maybe you can check your stats for patterns I described here: [webmasterworld.com...]