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Funnel analytics

You will read the report on your funnel and see at which step people leave without paying.

Before you start

Step 1. Set the period and the slice

Open “Analytics” in the project menu. It has four tabs: “Statistics”, “Answers”, “Leads”, “Cohorts”. Start with “Statistics”: it has the funnel and the table.

The default period is the last 30 days; there are also “Today”, “Last 7 days”, “All time” and custom dates. We keep data for a year, so “All time” means the last twelve months.

Other panel fields narrow the selection and combine: pick a country and a campaign to see those matching both.

Step 2. Read the funnel

Below the filters are six cards, one per step. A card counts sessions: someone who came twice in an evening counts twice; reloading the page five times in one visit counts once.

StepCounted when
Funnel openedthe quiz page opened
Quiz startedthey pressed the button on the first screen
Quiz completedthey reached the end of the quiz by any path
Paywall shownthe paywall opened; the thank-you screen after payment does not count
Checkout startedthey pressed buy, and we sent them to Stripe
Payment completedStripe confirmed the money went through

Under each card is its share of the previous step. The lowest share is where you lose the most people.

If the project has “On your own” selected, the three money steps are replaced by one — “Left for checkout”, when we sent the person to your page. From there you count. Such a project has no “Cohorts” tab either: cohorts are counted by buyers.

Step 3. Find where the quiz breaks off

The funnel does not say at which question people left. Dig two ways.

The “Quiz 50%” and “Quiz 90%” columns in the table below: sessions that reached the middle and nearly the end of their path. A gap between “Quiz started” and “Quiz 50%” means people leave in the first half.

The “Answers” tab shows each question, how many answered it and the split by options. Where the count drops sharply is the break-off point. Free-text questions are left out entirely — they may hold personal data.

The report “how many people on which screen” is in “Audit”, “Traffic” tab — along with the path of a specific visitor.

Step 4. Compare sources

Below the funnel is a table. The “Group by” field sets its first column: country, campaign tag, quiz, domain, A/B test. The “By day” switch at the top splits it by days. “Columns” turns metrics on and off; “Export CSV” exports exactly what is on screen.

The campaign tag comes from the ad address. Add tags to the link of any published funnel — no A/B test needed, we read them from any of our public pages. Visits without tags go into one row, “Direct traffic / no UTM”.

ColumnWhat it holds
Viewsopenings of quiz pages and the paywall, repeats included
Uniqueshow many different people came
Quiz 50%, Quiz 90%sessions that reached the middle and nearly the end of the quiz
Paywallhow many times the paywall opened
Registrationssessions in which the person left an email
Purchasessessions with a successful payment: two purchases in different visits count twice
Revenuethe sum of those payments
Installshow many times the app reported its first opening after payment
Traffbacksessions where the person pressed “back” in the browser and we sent them to the app store instead of off the site (setup)

The same button turns on hidden ones: “Sessions” (visits instead of people), “Purchase conversion” (purchases per unique visitor), ARPU (revenue per unique visitor) and ARPPU (revenue per buyer).

Your AppsFlyer or Adjust tracker can also report installs to us, into “Installs”. You set this up in the tracker's account, not the developer: the address is in “Settings”, “App connection” tab, option “Through an ad tracker”.

Why the numbers differ

Two more tabs

“Leads” — a named list of those who left an email: which quiz they came from, when they last visited, which ad brought them. “Export CSV” above the list exports it, including the utm_term and utm_content tags missing in “Statistics”.

“Cohorts” — ad payback: people are grouped by the date of their first visit, showing what each group brought on day one and by day 7, 30, 60, 90, 180 and 360. Spend is typed by hand into the “Spend” column and kept only in this browser: another computer will not show it.

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