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About Metrics
A metric is a tool to track the accomplishment of a said event on your website during a campaign. This is similar to the conversion goals that you apply in your VWO campaigns. The Conversion Goals aim to assess the behavior of the visitors on your website. For example, tracking the clicks on an offer banner, tracking the number of page visits, etc. However, these goals are limited to the scope of a given campaign and cannot be applied to multiple campaigns. This means you need to create goals anew each time for each campaign. This could be a bit challenging if you are looking to measure the same aspects repeatedly. To overcome this, you can create a metric.
Metrics are custom-created conditions that can be used as a goal across campaigns. You can simply create one by supplying a name and description and define it with an objective and the corresponding URL, where the objective is to be carried out - just like setting up a goal in your campaign. However, for creating a metric to track a custom event or revenue, you need to apply a custom event and the corresponding property too. Besides tracking cumbersome events, metrics allow you to track the multiple conversions performed by a visitor, i.e., you can now track the number of times a visitor has purchased the same product repeatedly, the number of times he has attempted to make a payment, etc.
Creating Metrics in VWO
Let’s say you want to focus on the conversion rate of low-value purchases in your campaign. To do this, you first need to create a metric where you would track the cart addition events that have a value of, say, 50 or lower. To do this, from the main menu panel, access Data360 > Metrics. Click +Create and enter the details in the following fields:
| Field | Input |
| Metric Name | Enter the name of the Metric |
| Definition | This allows you to customize the way the conversions are to be accounted for in your reports. This dropdown features the following options:
NOTE: In case of tracking revenue, select the Format this metric as currency checkbox. This populates the values in the currency (as configured in your account-level campaign settings. Read more) in your reports.
NOTE: The Number of times an event is triggered option is not included with the VWO Data360 Growth plan.
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| for event | Select an event to track from the Custom Events that you have created or from the following Standard Events:
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Once the metric is in place, you are good to go with creating a campaign to apply the metric for tracking.
Managing Metrics in VWO
Once a metric is created, you can modify or clone the same based on your need. To do so, click on the metric that you wish to work on and perform the required action as follows:
Procedure
- To Edit - Click on the vertical ellipsis > select Edit, make the required changes, and click Save.
- To Clone - Click on the vertical ellipsis > select Clone, enter the metric name, apply the required changes, and click Save. The cloned metric appears on the left.
Applying Metrics in VWO
Metrics can be applied to campaigns to track the conversions of events. They can be applied to multiple campaigns at once and will be accessible to all users of the account with campaign creating/editing access.
Perform the following steps to apply the metrics to your A/B test or Personalize campaign:
After setting up the campaign URL(s), applying the changes to your webpage(s) using the VWO Editor, and targeting your experiences (in the case of a Personalize campaign), you arrive at the METRICS page, which looks like this:
- All the Metrics that you have created in the Data360 module are populated on the METRICS page.
- You can search a metric by entering the metric name.
- If you require creating a Metric right at the moment of creating a campaign, click on the Create a new metric option and enter the details as mentioned in this section. Once done, click Create. The created metric will appear in the list.
After applying the required changes, click NEXT.