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title: "What does it mean when Recirculation Rate + Exit Rate is over 100%?"
description: "Understand why recirculation and exit rates don’t always add up to exactly 100%."
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updated: 2025-06-10
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# What does it mean when Recirculation Rate + Exit Rate is over 100%?

Understand why recirculation and exit rates don’t always add up to exactly 100%.

It’s normal for **Recirculation Rate + Exit Rate** to total more or less than 100%.

Here’s why:

-   **Exit Rate** excludes sessions that ended in a **conversion**
    
-   **Recirculation Rate** includes **all sessions**, including those that converted
    

So if a significant portion of visitors converted on the page, the Exit Rate will be lower (since those sessions are excluded), while Recirculation remains unaffected—causing the combined total to exceed 100%.

_In short:_ The two metrics are calculated from different session sets, so they aren’t meant to sum to exactly 100%.