Details
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Type: Improvement
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Status: Open
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Priority: Trivial
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 4.6.3
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Fix Version/s: Unscheduled
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Component/s: CiviMail
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Labels:None
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Versioning Impact:Patch (backwards-compatible bug fixes)
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Documentation Required?:None
Description
Mailing reports show percentages from some values but not others. I'm curious about this, because it seems like a conscious choice - albeit one made during the Civi 1.x cycle, so it's probably time to review. I suggested to my client requesting this that there are several ways to calculate a "click-through percentage" here, and they gave me a very detailed response (below). I also couldn't figure out why Open Rate didn't have a percentage.
I'll go ahead and submit a PR for this next week. My two questions are:
- Should this be submitted against 4.6.x?
- Does anyone have an objection to this?
From my client:
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Hey folks – I do find the “Click-through summary” section in a CiviMail Report helpful for certain things, like comparing internally how our fundraising emails do (since you can isolate click-throughs to the donation page). But for comparing ourselves with industry standards, or for emails with lots of different click-through options like eNewsletters, you really do need a percentage metric that looks at our members’ engagement with the whole email (not just the link-by-link analysis).
After digging around a bit, CTR is calculated differently by different agencies: SalesForce and most other places it seems measure CTR as the total # of unique clicks divided into the total # of emails delivered, i.e. just removing multiple clicks-throughs from the same individual on a link. M+R’s benchmark reports for the non-profit industry, however, use “the number of people who clicked at least one link in the email divided by the total number of message recipients,” which is a bit different. I’m a bit partial to the M+R metric, since I’d rather know how many of our members are engaged with our emails than to know the “intensity” of engagement, and M+R is also the go-to for non-profit advocacy groups. But perhaps one of these is easier to implement than the other? Here are the sources for the CTR algorithms:
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2013/07/email-marketing-tips.html
I agree about Open Rates – this one seems like a no brainer!
I’ve shown our Civi setup to two communications professionals so far, and this is the first thing they both complained about!
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CRM-17963 CiviMail 'click success rate': base on opens not intended recipients
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