Just as a little friendly feedback, having a dedicated language picker landing page must certainly be hurting any goal you have for your website, unless I suppose that goal is to determine the language your visitors (who don't just bounce) are speaking.
Surely there's a better pattern that doesn't add an immediate barrier to visitors before you get to introduce your value, and lets people navigate to the site immediately.
> Avoid automatically redirecting users from one language version of a site to a different language version of a site. For example, don't redirect based on what you think the user's language may be. These redirections could prevent users (and search engines) from viewing all the versions of your site.
We also observed a few interesting things:
* The language selector page has an extremely low bounce rate. I think the <1% bounce rate is almost entirely low-end bots, or clients that immediately lose connection.
* Web search results link directly to the localized pages (e.g. /en/) so majority of our traffic never lands on the language selector page.
All in all, it doesn't suck enough to take resources from other more pressing issues. However, would love to hear how you would build it differently!
Surely there's a better pattern that doesn't add an immediate barrier to visitors before you get to introduce your value, and lets people navigate to the site immediately.