When asked what metrics they used, or planned to use, to evaluate their email programs, more than half of respondents cited the following six metrics: open rate, clickthrough rate, unsubscribe rate, click-to-open rate, bounce rate, and conversion rate.

“You can test how that monetizes versus a bounce rate of a user not giving their email, versus how much you make off of that user [who does give their email],” White said. Delivering on the Value Exchange. For authentication strategies to work, publishers need to provide value meaningful enough to incentivize users to log in while also maintaining a positive user experience.

The result was high bounce rates—leaving the site after a single page and before taking any meaningful action—and low conversion rates. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, consistent improvements in ecommerce site experience, navigation and checkout flows ignited the desktop ecommerce market.

This work is all in service of driving superior user engagement: How do we increase page views, lower bounce rates and increase engagement? Part of answering those questions is addressing how we optimize for SEO, viewability, ad load and delaying ad load ads that are not in view right away.

By measuring metrics such as time on site or bounce rate for people who had listened to an ad, Adobe can better gauge not just lower-funnel engagements, but also psychometrics and changes in audience behaviors. Podcast Advertising.