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The 27 Metrics in Pinterest’s Internal
Growth Dashboard
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One question I often get asked by people starting out on growth is “what metrics should be in my growth dashboard?”. I’ve written before about what metrics we value at
Pinterest (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fengineering.pinterest.com%2Fpost%2F86533331849%2Fhow-pinterest-drives-sustainable-
growth&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE36pao14Nu2e8zIK0ZHg1j_i27AA). In this post however, I’ll give people a peek behind the scenes and share what our internal
growth dashboard looks like.
We have organized our dashboard to reflect our user growth model. We start with our top line growth metric of MAUs. Then we follow the user lifecycle funnel; starting with
acquisition metrics, followed by activation, engagement, and finally resurrection.
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/growth_model.png)
MAUs
1. Current progress to goal: Current number of MAUs & how much progress we’ve made towards our quarterly MAU goal.
2. MAU Forecast: Forecast of the number of MAUs we could expect to have extrapolated from our growth rate at the same time during previous years. We include this
metric to help us anticipate the effect of seasonality on our growth numbers.
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2. (https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/mau_to_forecast.png)
3. MAUs by app
4. MAUs by gender
5. MAUs by country: Tracking total number of MAUs in every single country would obviously be overwhelming to view on a chart, so instead we bucket countries
together. The buckets we use are USA, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and Rest of World. The tiers are based on size of Internet population, Internet ad spending, etc.
6. MAU Accounting: The MAU accounting helps us see what factors are contributing the most to our MAU growth. Specifically we split out total number of signups,
resurrections, existing users churning out and new users churning out.
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/mau_accounting.png)
Acquisition
7. Total signups
8. Signups by app
9. Signups by referrer
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3. (https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/signups_by_referrer.png)
10, 11, 12. Invites Sent, Unique Invite Senders, and Invite Signups
Activation
13. Overall Activation Rate: 1d7s is a term we use to refer to users who come back 1 or more times in the week following signup. We measure overall activation rate as
1d7s/signups, or in other words, the percentage of new signups that visit Pinterest again in the week following signup.
14. Activation by app: This is the same metric of 1d7s/signups split out by platform. We’ve seen that different platforms can actually have pretty dramatic differences in
activation rates.
15. Activation by referrer source
16. Activation by gender
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4. (https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/retention_by_gender.png)
17. Overall signups to 1rc7: This metric is similar to the signups to 1d7 except it measures the percentage of new signups that repinned a pin or clicked on a pin in the
week following signup. We use this metric to measure as a leading indicator of how well we are activating users into the highly engaged user buckets
18. 1rc7s by app
19. Signups to 1rc7 ratio by app
20. Signups to engagement funnel by app: This metric tracks the percentage of new signups that are still doing key actions during a one-week time window of 28-35
days after signup. Specifically, we track 35 days after a user signs up, what percentage of them are still an MAU, WARC (weekly active repinner or clicker), WAC (weekly
active clicker), or WAR (weekly active repinner).
21. Signup engagement funnel by gender
22. Signups to WAU 35 days after signup: This is one of our key activation metrics. We track the total percentage of users who are still a WAU one month after signup.
Specifically we look to see what percentage of signups were active between 28-35 days after signup.
Engagement
23. *AU ratios: We track the ratio of DAUs to MAUs, WAUs to MAUs, and DAUs to WAUs. The ratio between *AUs is a popular metric to gauge how engaged users are
with your app.
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/*au_ratios.png)
24. Email Summary by type: Table of total number of emails sent, opened, & clicked-through split out by email type.
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24. Email Summary by type: Table of total number of emails sent, opened, & clicked-through split out by email type.
25. Push notification summary by type: Table of total number of push notifications sent & opened split out by type and by platform (iOS & Android).
Resurrections
26. Resurrections by platform: Total number of users that were dormant for 28+ days, but then came back to Pinterest, split out by which platform they came back on.
27. Resurrections by referrer
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jwegan-blog/growth_dashboard/resurrections.png)
To wrap up, you can see we put a big emphasis on activation (the process of getting a new user to convert to a MAU). This is because we consider activation critical to
long-term sustainable growth. Strong activation rates are necessary if you want to be able to scale a service to hundreds of millions of users. We also put an emphasis on
segmentation by gender, country, referrer, etc., to more deeply understand how different segments of users interact with Pinterest and see which segments are
underperforming. If you have any questions feel free to ping me on twitter (https://twitter.com/jwegan_com) or drop me a line (mailto:me@jwegan.com).
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