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Data Dictionary

Contains key metric names and descriptions.

Updated over 5 months ago

General

Name

Description

Total Customers

Customers who placed an order with the store.

New Customers

Customers who placed their first order with the store.

Returning Customers

Customers who placed an order and whose order history already includes at least one order.

Quantity

Units of products included in orders that were placed on a given date.

Orders

Number of orders that were placed on a given date.

Discounts

Revenue subtracted from the gross amount of an order, does not include refunds.

Gross Revenue

Revenue from products ordered, after discounts but before refunds. Does not include shipping charges or taxes.

Refunds

Revenue returned to the customer for an order, includes partial and full refunds. Calculated when the order was created.

Net Revenue

Revenue from products ordered, after discounts and refunds. Does not include shipping charges or taxes.

LTV

Lifetime Value. Measures the total revenue a customer generates throughout the relationship. In our case, we use a trailing range, default is six months.

COGS

Cost of goods sold. Direct amount paid as a cost related to the sale of the products.

Advertising

Name

Description

Platform

Online space where advertisers monetize visitor traffic.

Campaign

Contain a series of ad sets and ads that share a single objective.

Ad Set

Groups of advertisements that share settings for how, when, and where to run.

Ad

Advertisement that promotes a product, service, brand, or event.

Keyword

A term used to describe a word or group of words that matches the words or phrases consumers enter into search engines.

Impressions

Measures when the advertisement content appears in front of the audience.

Clicks

Measures when the advertisement content is clicked by the audience.

Thumbstop

Measures the percentage of impressions that played the creative for at least a few seconds.

Watchability

Calculates the ratio of users who watched the entire creative video versus the number of clicks the ad received.

View Retention

Calculated by dividing the number of thruplays by the number of views with at least a few seconds.

Pixel Conversions

Tracked using pixels. Measures when a visitor completes a desired goal (e.g. purchase).

Pixel Conversions Value

Tracked using pixels. Measures the value assigned to conversions (e.g. purchase revenue).

Conversions

Tracked using UTM parameters. Measures when a visitor completes a desired goal (e.g. purchase).

Conversions Value

Tracked using UTM parameters. Measures the value assigned to conversions (e.g. purchase revenue).

Spend

Measures the cost of acquiring customers using paid advertising campaigns.

CPM

Cost per mille (thousand). Measures the price for every 1,000 impressions a digital advertisement receives.

CPC

Cost per click. Measures the price for every click a digital advertisement receives.

CTR

Click through rate. Measures the percentage of impressions that resulted in a click.

CVR

Conversion rate. Measures the percentage of visitors who clicked a digital advertisement and converted.

CPA

Cost per acquisition. Measures the cost of a customer completing an action (e.g. purchase). Total customers attributed to marketing (paid).

Blended CPA

Cost per acquisition. Measures the cost of a customer completing an action (e.g. purchase). All customers (paid, influenced, and organic).

Blended CAC

Customer acquisition cost. Measures the combined cost of acquiring a new customer. All new customers (paid, influenced, and organic).

ACoS

Advertising cost of sales. Measures the amazon pay-per-click for advertising campaigns.

TACoS

Total advertising cost of sale. Measures the relationship between ad spend and total sales.

Paid ROAS

Return on ad spend. Measures the amount of revenue, attributed to marketing, generated for every dollar spent on campaigns.

ROAS

Return on ad spend. Measures the amount of revenue generated for every dollar spent on campaigns.

ROI

Return on investment. Measures the amount of net revenue generated for every dollar spent on campaigns.

Lifecycle

Name

Description

Delivered

Measures the number recipients that successfully received the email/message.

Opened

Measures the number recipients that opened the email/message.

Opened Rate

Measures the count of unique opens divided by the count of deliveries.

Clicked

Measures the number recipients that clicked inside of the email/message.

Open to Click Rate

Measures the count of unique clicks divided by the count of opens.

Conversions

Measures the number recipients that converted from the email/message. Conversions is tracking using tracking parameters tied to the email/message.

Conversion Rate

Measures the number recipients that converted from the email/message divided by the count of deliveries.

Attributed Revenue

Measures the total revenue attributed to an email/message. Conversions value is tracking using tracking parameters tied to the email/message.

RPR

Revenue per recipient. Measures the total revenue attributed to an email/message divided by the total number of recipients who received that email/message.

Unsubscribed

Measures the number recipients that unsubscribed from the email/message.

Unsubscribed Rate

Measures the count of unique unsubscribed recipients divided by the count of deliveries.

Bounced

Measures the number recipients that bounced when sending the email/message.

Bounced Rate

Measures the count of unique bounced recipients divided by the total count of unique recipients.

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