Sequencer

Campaign analytics and click tracking

What the Analytics tab of an EmailPal campaign shows, how click tracking works, and why open tracking is deliberately not offered.

The Analytics tab

Open a campaign and choose Analytics. At the top you see how many leads have finished the sequence, a Date range picker (Last N days), and Export CSV, which downloads the numbers for the range you picked.

The cards show:

CardWhat it counts
Leads contactedLeads emailed at step 1. This is the base for reply rate.
Emails sentEvery email the campaign has sent in the range.
Click rateClicks as a share of emails sent, with the click count underneath.
Reply rateUnique leads who replied, as a share of leads contacted. A lead counts once however many times they reply. Out-of-office and other automatic replies are not counted, and the card notes how many were left out. Hover the ? beside the label for the definition.
OpportunitiesOpportunities from this campaign, with their total value when they have one. Pipeline and opportunities
ConversionsDeals marked won.
Open rateAlways shows Disabled. See below.
Bounce rateHard and soft bounces as a share of emails sent.
UnsubscribedLeads who unsubscribed.

A chart of Sent, Replies and Clicks sits under the cards, with three tabs below it:

  • Steps and variants gives each step and each A/B variant a row once it has sent. Steps, waits and A/B variants
  • Activity lists sends, replies and unsubscribes as they happen.
  • Bounces lists addresses that could not be delivered, with the reason.

Why there is no open tracking

Open tracking hurts delivery and it is unreliable, so EmailPal does not offer it. The Open tracking switch in campaign settings is locked off, and Open rate shows Disabled. Only clicks are tracked.

Use replies as your main signal, and clicks as a supporting one. CRM reports shows the same reply rate for every campaign over its whole life.

How click tracking works

With Track link clicks on (the default), links in a sent email are rewritten to signed tracking links. A click is recorded and the person is then sent on to the original page.

  • Only web links (http and https) are rewritten.
  • The unsubscribe link and mailto: links are never rewritten.
  • Links longer than 1,500 characters are left alone.
  • The link uses a shared EmailPal host unless you set up your own tracking domain. Tracking domains

To switch it off for one campaign, turn off Track link clicks under Advanced options, Tracking and format. Links then go out as you wrote them.

  • More than 3 different links in an email shows as a launch warning.
  • Link shorteners and bare-IP links are launch blockers. Launch checklist

FAQs

Can I turn open tracking on?

No. It is off for every campaign and cannot be switched on.

How is reply rate worked out?

Unique leads who replied divided by leads contacted, for the date range you picked. It is not replies divided by emails sent, so adding steps to a sequence does not lower it. The campaign list shows the count of leads who replied rather than a percentage.

Where do replies show up?

In Unibox. Unibox

Does click tracking affect deliverability?

Rewritten links can. That is why EmailPal lets you use a hostname on your own domain, so the links look like yours. You can also turn click tracking off per campaign.

Need More Help?

Tracking domains, Create a campaign, Cold email deliverability guide.