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Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

For the Email Link Performance reports, what do the various columns mean? I'm not entirely clear.

Clicks - Number of links clicked. (Does it double count clicks if a single recipient clicks twice?)
% Clicks - Percentage of all clicks in the email. (If this captures all clicks, why don't the numbers in each set add up to 100%?)
Leads - Numbe of leads who clicked the link. (Okay. This one makes sense.)
% Leads - Percentage of all leads who clicked a link in the email. (Again, shouldn't the numbers add up to 100%?)

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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Word of warning to anyone renaming their programs or their e-mails, if the program includes an e-mail that was renamed or the program itself is renamed the e-mail link performance report will break up your data.

So for instance, if you called a batch e-mail program "Hello Word" and an hour after the e-mail was sent you realise that it should have been called "Hello World" and correct the name of the program, the email link performance data for the e-mail will appear under two different headings. The sum of % Clicks, % Leads, Clicks and Leads of those "two programs" should add up too 100%, 100%, and two correct sums for clicks and leads. (Assuming the timespan of the report encompasses the entire lifespan of the e-mail.)

Since the programs already have unique IDs, I think it would be helpful if those were used on the back end in order to aggregate the reports. (Rather than something that a user may want to update.)

Anyway. Justin was able to clarify this once he took a look at the data. Issue resolved.

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Justin_Cooperm2
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

https://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000KypICAS

Clicks - total clicks not unique clicks.
% Clicks - you are correct. It is the % ever, so if you are filtering by time period or something else it won't add up to 100%.
Leads - # unique leads that clicked.
% Leads - For all unique leads that clicked links, what % clicked this link.
Josh_Hill13
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

If you have RCE, you can get unique clicks and abuse #

I have more on this in my guide
http://www.marketingrockstarguides.com/marketing-rockstars-guide-to-marketo/

or visit slideshare.net/jdavidhill
Anonymous
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Thanks, Justin!

On % Clicks, by "% ever" do you mean the entire lifespan of that e-mail? What if the period of time I defined for the report encompasses the entire period during which users could have clicked. For example, my report captures everything from January 1 to today and the e-mail was sent after January 1st. In that situation, should the numbers add up to 100%?

% Leads, again, if this is for all unique leads that clicked links and the report covers the entire life of the e-mail, shouldn't the number equal 100%?
Justin_Cooperm2
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Yes, it should. If it's not send me an email and I'll look into it. 

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Anonymous
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Word of warning to anyone renaming their programs or their e-mails, if the program includes an e-mail that was renamed or the program itself is renamed the e-mail link performance report will break up your data.

So for instance, if you called a batch e-mail program "Hello Word" and an hour after the e-mail was sent you realise that it should have been called "Hello World" and correct the name of the program, the email link performance data for the e-mail will appear under two different headings. The sum of % Clicks, % Leads, Clicks and Leads of those "two programs" should add up too 100%, 100%, and two correct sums for clicks and leads. (Assuming the timespan of the report encompasses the entire lifespan of the e-mail.)

Since the programs already have unique IDs, I think it would be helpful if those were used on the back end in order to aggregate the reports. (Rather than something that a user may want to update.)

Anyway. Justin was able to clarify this once he took a look at the data. Issue resolved.
Mark_Dudek1
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Why doesn't number of leads equal the click-thru number on the email performance report though? This keeps happening in my reports.

Justin_Cooperm2
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

It depends what report you're looking at...

In the Email Performance Report, the clicked % is the clickthrough rate (# leads that clicked any link in the email / # delivered).

(read docs at https://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/Email+Performance+Report​)

In the Email Link Performance Report, the metrics are:

Clicks - # total clicks (not unique clicks) on this link.

% Clicks - percentage out of all total clicks on all links within that email, ever.

Leads - # unique leads that clicked on this link.

% Leads - percentage out of all unique leads that clicked on any link within that email, ever.

(read docs at https://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/Email+Link+Performance+Report​)

So, does this make sense? If you had two links in an email and one unique lead clicked both, the Email Performance Report would show Clicked: 1 Clicked %: 100% and Email Link Performance Report would show Clicks: 2 Leads: 2 in the totals section (there were 2 total clicks on all links in the email and unique leads clicked on both links).

Mark_Dudek1
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Re: Explanation of Email Link Performance Data

Ah ok.  That's what I thought was happening, but then I saw a comment that made me think the term "unique" was being used a bit differently here.  Thanks for the clarification.