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See how your messages are performing

Get insights into message performance, deliverability, over-messaging and more.

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Written by Beth-Ann Sher
Updated over a week ago

It's essential to regularly measure the performance of your messages, so you can optimize their effectiveness. We'll outline three ways you can measure your message performance below.

Measure a single message’s performance

You can easily measure how a single message is performing. Once a message is live, you’ll see key stats including percentage of sends, opens, clicks, goals hit and replies:

You can also click on each stat for more detail. For example, If you select ‘Clicked’, you’ll see the users who clicked a link in your message. You can use the dropdown to see the number of times each link was clicked:

"Clicked" percentage will only be counted if you have hyperlinks inserted in your messages. Inserted apps will no count towards the "Clicked" metric.

You can also filter by dates and pick the duration (for individual messages and for messages in Series).

To view individual replies to messages without having to open a new window, just scroll down to see customers who replied and click 'View reply'.

To take a closer look at your message's performance, you can export the data.


Get insights into overall message performance

The Customer engagement report lets you see how your messages are performing, whether they're sending as expected and which users you’re sending too many messages to. 

These valuable insights will help you decide which messages to send in the future. And you’ll be able to quickly spot when your messages need to be more targeted to avoid annoying the same customers again and again. 

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See how your ongoing messages are performing 

You’ll see a graph that shows you how many messages you’ve sent. To see how your messages perform over a specific time period, just select the date range you'd like to measure at the top.

The date range selected here will filter the report to show messages which have sent in that period, but individual stats for those messages (like click rate) will show the results for all time.

You can also filter by message type to slice the engagement stats you'll see below.

Hover over the bar for any specific day and you’ll see which and how many messages were sent that day. This lets you see things like; which messages get sent to the most users and which messages get sent to very few users in comparison. 

What if some messages aren’t sending as expected?

If one of your emails is sending to fewer customers than expected, try these deliverability tips to boost your send rate. 

Or if a Chat or Post messages is sending to fewer customers than you hoped, rethink your audience filters. For example, you should only target customers who have recently used your app - customers who aren’t active in your app won’t receive your message. 

Check which users are receiving too many messages 

You can also see which users received the most messages during your selected time period, and how many messages they received. This helps you know if you’re sending too many messages to any particular user. 

See how engaging your ongoing messages are 

Your message stats allow you to quickly see how engaging your messages are (sorted from highest to lowest engagement). Click on the sent value to see individual stats for each message. For example, you’ll see how many users opened your message, clicked on a link in your message, or unsubscribed.  

Stats for these messages (like click rate) will show the rate for all time not just the engagement within the selected time period.

Make your messages more engaging 

Well-targeted chat or post messages should see an open rate of above 30%. To boost your open and click rates you should A/B test your messages so that you can fine tune them to be as effective as possible. 

You should see a minimum open rate of above 25% for well-targeted emails. If you’d like to increase your open rate for any message, make your subject line more engaging.  


Get further insights with exported data

Analyzing your data can help you better understand the performance of your messages. For example, you can:

  • Join your message data with other data sources, such as your Intercom user data, to see how your messaging impacts behaviour or outcomes.

  • Analyze the performance of your messages to see which ones are your best performers.

  • Understand how a campaign has performed, and conduct an in-depth comparison with other campaigns.

  • Use third party business intelligence tools to analyze your message performance over time.

If you want to create more engaging messages, check out these Email marketing best practices.


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