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Touch Interaction Latency Distorts Mobile Engagement Metrics

Touch Interaction Latency Distorts Mobile Engagement Metrics

When you pull up your Google Analytics dashboard and see that mobile users have a 12% higher bounce rate than desktop, the immediate impulse is to blame the layout, the load speed, or the content itself.But there’s a subtle, often overlooked variable that can silently skew your engagement data: touch interaction latency.

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