Careful analysis of mailing reports is key to understanding the effectiveness of any given mailing and the overall health of any email marketing efforts. This glossary can be used to understand the various terms and parameters in a campaign report.
General Information | |
Campaign Score | A ReachMail specific score generated by analyzing bounce, complaint, open, and click rates against the gross or net volume sent. Higher scores are better, maximum score is 100. |
Mailing | The name of the Mailing used in this campaign |
Scheduled Delivery | The date and time the campaign was scheduled to be sent. |
Delivered | The date and time the campaign was fully delivered. |
Overview Tab | |
Delivery Rate | The emails that were delivered out of the total sent. (NOTE this doesn't mean the emails that were inboxed, just those accepted by the recipient server) |
Open Rate | The percent number of recipients that opened the email out of the emails received. |
Click Rate | The percent and number of clickers out of those emails that were sent. |
Negative Metrics | This is the percentage of soft bounces, hard bounces and Spam complaints for this campaign. Best Practices give the information on what percentages are acceptable. |
Delivery Report | Both Chart and List views of the delivered and bounces of your send. |
Provider Openers Report | Both Chart and List views of the openers for the top providers of your list. |
Details Tab | |
Recipient Summary Table | |
Recipients Section |
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Openers Section |
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Bounces Section |
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Unsubscribes Section |
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Suppression: Lists-Segments-Tags Table | |
List name | Each List used as a suppression |
Recipient Count (current) | The count of recipients at the time of sending on the suppression segment. |
Summary By List Table | |
List Recipients |
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Openers Section |
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Bounces Section |
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Unsubscribes Section |
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Forwarded Emails Using "Forward-to-a-Friend" (by list) Table | |
List Name | Target list name |
Forwarded by Email | Gross forwards using the Forward-to-a-Friend link and "Email" option |
Gross forwards using Facebook | |
Gross forwards using LinkedIn | |
Gross forwards using Twitter. |
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Link Tracking & Heatmap - Tab | |
HTML Links |
URL of link target for HTML version |
Text Links |
URL of link target for Text version |
Action (ellipses) |
Download Clicks, Download Clickers, Copy clickers to list... or Tag link clickers are available actions in this menu |
Clicks |
Gross clicks |
Clickers |
Net of Total against unique addresses |
Heatmap |
Visual representation of where clicks occurred |
Opens Analysis Tab | |
Opener Geographic Distribution |
Visual and list display of the openers per geographic location |
Opener Domain Distribution |
Graphic and list representation of the top domains contained in the campaign. |
Provider Openers report |
Graphic and list representation of the Openers and rates for the top domains contained in the campaign. |
Openers by Hour |
Graphical representation of openers from the time of send per hour |
Openers by Hour of the Day |
Graphical representation of the openers per the hours of the day. |
Delivery Report Tab | |
Delivery Report |
Both Chart and List views of the delivered and bounces of your send. |
Undeliverable by Provider Report |
Both Chart and List views of the bounces for the top providers of your list. |
Bounce Table |
The dynamic list of bounces types within your campaign. You can download each bounce type or the list as a whole. |
Unsubscribes Tab |
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Unsubscribe Summary |
Graphical representation of the reasons people are unsubscribing from your email. |
Unsubscribe Table |
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