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Insights

The Insights section of your account provides a powerful view into the health and performance of your email marketing.

Overall statistics can be viewed for a custom time period, up to 15 months in the past. Campaign and journey data is updated hourly, while subscriber details are updated every 24 hours.

For any selected time period, statistics are compared to the previous period of the same length. For example, if you select a 120 day period, performance is compared to the 120 days prior to that time period. This is useful for month on month, quarter on quarter, or year on year reporting.

The Insights report page, showing summary statistics followed by per-campaign performance metrics

Set a date range

To view statistics over a custom date range:

  1. Click Insights.
  2. Click the left date in the date range box to set your start date, then select your end date. You can change just the end date by clicking the date on the right side of the date range box.
  3. Select the statistics to view for that date range using the menu on the left.

Download data

To download the data on the insights page you're currently viewing as a CSV file, click the down arrow near the top right.

The down arrow, file download button

Statistics

Insights are available for regular and A/B campaigns, automation, content, lists, segments, and engagement. Hover your cursor over a metric to see how it is calculated.

Pop-up dialogue explaining how Open Rate is calculated: the number of unique opens divided by number of emails delivered

To see how all metrics are calculated, refer to the tables below.

Content

In the "Content" section, you can see how individual links perform in your emails. Each row in the "Detailed performance" report includes a link's Call to Action (CTA) — for example, a button label, or text the link is applied to. If the link belongs to an image, the CTA is shown as "View image", which can be clicked to see the image.

Statistics for each link in an email

You can click on an email's name, below each CTA, to open its full report.

There are a few things to take into account when looking at the content report:

  • If you change a CTA or link when you save a new version of a journey email, it will be shown in a new row — the data does not roll over from the old CTA/link.
  • We may not be able to retrieve CTAs for journey emails saved before January 2018. In this case, you'll see the following entries:
    • If the CTA of a link is unknown, but its link is unique in the email, it will be shown as N/A.
    • If the CTA of a link is known, and there are unknown CTAs with the same link in the email, their stats will be rolled into the known CTA entry.
    • If there are multiple known CTAs, and at least one unknown CTA all with the same link, their stats will be rolled into an entry named "Multiple".

Engagement

In the "Engagement" section, you can track how engaged subscribers are in your lists, as well as how engaged people are across your most commonly emailed domains.

Active vs inactive subscribers

In the "Engagement" section of insights, you can view your active and inactive subscribers. Active and inactive are defined as follows:

  • Active — any subscriber who you sent an email in the last 30 days, who has opened an email from you in the last 90 days.
  • Inactive — any subscriber who you sent an email in the last 30 days, who has not opened an email from you in the last 90 days.

To see the exact number of active and inactive subscribers, hover your mouse cursor over the chart.

Circle charts for Active, Inactive and Unsubscribed subscribers for the set date range

Email domains

Below the engagement charts, you can see the delivery, bounce and open rates for the top 10 email domains you are sending to, for example, gmail.com, yahoo.com, and hotmail.com.

A table displaying metrics, such as delivery rate, for the domains: gmail, yahoo and hotmail

Lists

In the "Lists" section, you can see how the lists you've sent to during the selected time period have performed. You can also see how their subscriber count has changed during that time. Subscriber counts are calculated at 0:00UTC each day.

A chart showing the number of subscribers in a selected list growing over time

How metrics are calculated

How metrics are calculated depends on what area of insights you are viewing.

Core numbers

How the base statistics are calculated for the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
Campaigns sentThe number of campaigns sent
Emails sentThe total number of emails sent
Emails deliveredThe total number of emails sent, minus the total number of emails bounced
Emails bouncedThe number of emails bounced
Emails unsubscribedThe total number of unsubscribes
Emails openedThe total unique opens for all emails
Emails clickedThe total unique clicks for all emails

Campaigns

How the statistics are calculated for the selected time window in Campaigns.

MetricCalculation
Delivery rate(Total emails sent - Total emails bounced) ¸ Total emails sent
Open rateUnique opens ¸ Total delivered
Click rateUnique clicks ¸ Total delivered
Click to open rate (CTOR)Unique clicks ¸ Unique opens
Unsubscribe rateTotal unsubscribes ¸ Total delivered
Bounce rateTotal bounced ¸ Total sent
Emails deliveredThe total number of emails sent, minus the total number of emails bounced
Subject line *The subject line for each campaign
Total sent *The total number of emails sent per campaign
Total opens *The total number of email opens per campaign
Total clicks *The total number of clicks per campaign
Total bounces *The total number of emails bounced per campaign
Total unsubscribes *The total number of unsubscribes per campaign

* Available in CSV download only.

Automation

How the statistics are calculated for journeys that sent an email during the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
Active journeysNumber of journeys that are active, and sent an email during the date range specified
Emails sentNumber of emails sent by journeys
Delivery rate(Total sent - Total bounced) ¸ Total sent
Open rateUnique opens ¸ Total delivered
Click rateUnique clicks ¸ Total delivered
Click to open rate (CTOR)Unique clicks ¸ Unique opens
Unsubscribe rateTotal unsubscribes ¸ Total delivered
Bounce rateTotal bounced ¸ Total sent
RecipientsNumber of subscribers who were sent a journey email
Total sent *The total number of emails sent per journey
Total opens *The total number of email opens per journey
Total clicks *The total number of clicks per journey
Total bounces *The total number of emails bounced per journey
Total unsubscribes *The total number of unsubscribes per journey

* Available in CSV download only.

Content

How statistics are calculated for all subscribers who were sent an email during the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
Total clicksThe total number of clicks across all links for campaign and journey emails during the selected time window
Total unique clicksThe total number of unique clicks across all links for campaign and journey emails during the selected time window
Click rate (in summary)Unique clicks divide by the total number of campaigns and journey emails delivered during the selected time window
DeliveredTotal sent - Total bounced for the email containing the link
Click to open rate (CTOR)Link unique clicks ¸ Unique opens for emails containing the link
Click rate (per link)Link unique clicks ¸ Total number of emails delivered containing the link

Lists

How statistics are calculated for lists that were sent to during the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
SubscribersTotal subscribers in the list as of the latest date in the date range
Emails deliveredTotal sent - Total bounced, sent to subscribers in a list
Open rateUnique opens ¸ Total delivered
Click rateUnique clicks ¸ Total delivered

Segments

How statistics are calculated for segments that were sent to during the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
SubscribersTotal subscribers in the segment as of the latest date in the date range
Emails deliveredTotal sent - Total bounced sent to segments for:
  • Campaigns sent to one or more segments.
  • Journeys based on segments.
Open rateUnique opens ¸ Total delivered
Click rateUnique clicks ¸ Total delivered

Engagement

How statistics are calculated for all subscribers who were sent an email during the selected time window.

MetricCalculation
Total recipientsTotal sent - Total bounced
Emails sentTotal number of emails sent
Open rateUnique opens ¸ Total delivered
Click rateUnique clicks ¸ Total delivered
Unsubscribe rateTotal unsubscribes ¸ Total delivered
Bounce rateTotal bounced ¸ Total sent
ActiveSubscribers who were sent an email and opened it ¸ Subscribers who were sent an email (over a 90 day rolling timeframe)
InactiveSubscribers who were sent an email and did not open it ¸ Subscribers who were sent an email (over a 90 day rolling timeframe)
UnsubscribedSubscribers who were sent an email then unsubscribed ¸ Subscribers who were sent an email (over a 90 day rolling timeframe)
Email domainsThe number of subscribers who were sent an email on a certain domain ¸ The number of subscribers who were sent an email