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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title/></head><body><h1>Advanced Campaign Statistics
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<p>This chapter covers
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<ul><li>The statistics menu</li>
<li>Drilldown by campaign into clicks and/or opens</li>
<li>Domain statistics </li>
<li>Using a Google tracking code</li>
<li>Forward to a friend.</li>
</ul><p>
</p>
<p>Basic statistics, as found in the Statistics Overview, are covered in the chapter called Basic Campaign Statistics. 
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<h2>The Statistics Menu
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<p>The statistics menu pulls together a lot of features. It is worth exploring what can be found though this menu. The main items on the menu are Overview, Opens, Campaign clicks, URL clicks and Domain statistics. You may also see other options, for example Advanced statistics, if you statistics plugins is activated.
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<p>To get a basic understanding of what data is available you can work methodically from the top down, first viewing each page, then seeing what links are provided in each page, and onwards. You will often come full circle.
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<p><img src="static/statistics_menu.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>In this chapter we will approach our drilldown from analysing one campaign, covering both opens and clicks. You can also compare multiple campaigns, or focus on a specific URL you are trying to drive traffic to. The approach you take depends on the questions you are trying to answer.
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<h2>Drilling down into an individual campaign
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<p>The starting point for an analysis of a single campaign is the campaign statistics overview. This can be found in <strong>Campaigns</strong> > <strong>List of campaigns</strong> > <strong>Sent Campaigns</strong> by clicking on the graph button
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<p><img src="static/access_stats_from_sent_camapigns.png" alt=""/></p>
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<p>and also by visiting <strong>Statistics</strong> > <strong>Statistics overview </strong>and clicking on the name of the campaign.
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<p><img src="static/access_stats_from_stats_overview_page.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>Either of these routes will bring you to the Statistics Overview for a campaign. The page gives you an overview of information and two ways to drilldown are available.
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<p><img src="static/advacned_campaign_statistics_overview.png" alt=""/></p>
<p> 
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<h3>Opened Drilldown
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<p>By clicking the number of opens, you can get a a page called Open Statistics.
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<p><img src="static/opened_drilldown.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>This page allows you to <strong>Download as a CSV file </strong>a list of those subscribers who were registered as having opened the campaign (remember this is by no means everyone, only those <em>recorded</em>).
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<p>The csv file can in turn be used to create lists of active subscribers, or by using the list-exclude feature you can isolate <em>inactive</em> subscribers too.
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<p><img src="static/download_data.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>You can also click on an individual subscriber to drilldown to the subscriber level.
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<p><img src="static/drill_down_right_to_subscriber_level.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>This will take you to the <strong>Campaigns</strong> tab in the <strong>History</strong> section of the <strong>Subscriber profile</strong>, where you can click further links to view the campaigns they have opened (left) or the links they clicked on in that campaign (right).
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<p> You can also see the date on which they viewed a campaign and the response time (in seconds).<img src="static/subscriber_history.png" alt=""/> 
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<h3>Clicked Drilldown 
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<p>In your campaign statistics overview page, you can also choose to drilldown into clicks data.
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<p><img src="static/clicked_drilldown.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>This will take you to a list of the links in that campaign, and how many people clicked on each one.
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<p><img src="static/clicked_drilldown_details.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>If you click on the url you can see how many people clicked on that url across all campaigns which contained it.  
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<p><img src="static/clicked_drilldown_details_choose_url.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>That data can also be downloaded as a csv. 
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<p><img src="static/url_drilldown_statistics.png" alt=""/> 
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<h2>Domain Statisics
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<p>  The <strong>Domain statistics</strong> page is accessible from the main statistics menu and it is a fascinating page which can give you real insight into the nature of your subscribers. 
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<h2>Using a google tracking code
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<p>Using a Google tracking code ensures that any visits to your website from the campaign are recorded in Google Analytics, <em>if </em>you have Google Analytics tracking installed on your site.
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<p>Google tracking is quite different to the in-built phpList opens/views tracking. Firstly the data is not collected, stored or viewed in phpList. Also, if you link to another website in your campaign and if that website <em>also </em>has Google Analytics tracking on their site (which is likely) then they also receive data. In that sense the tracking code is not exclusive to you.
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<p>To turn on Google tracking for an individual campaign, click the <strong>add Google Analytics tracking code</strong> in the Finish tab of the campaign workflow.
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<p><img src="static/google_per_campaign.png" alt=""/> 
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<p>To turn on the use of tracking codes for every campaign, use the <strong>Always add Google tracking code to campaigns</strong> in your <strong>campaign settings</strong> area, which can be accessed from <strong>Config </strong>> <strong>Settings</strong>.
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<p> <img src="static/config_settings_google_phpList.png" alt=""/></p>
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<p>To view the data in your Google Analytics go to <strong>Acquisition</strong> > <strong>Campaigns</strong> and you will see the name of each campaign.
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<p><img src="static/google_result_1.png" alt=""/> 
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<h2>Forward to friend
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<p>On your <strong>Statistics</strong> > <strong>Statistics overview </strong>page, the third column, <strong>FWDS</strong>, shows the number of people who have forwarded the mail through the phpList <strong>ForwardToFriend</strong> system.
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<p>This system uses a placeholder to create a link or form in the email body or footer of your campaign for your subscribers to use to forward the mail to someone else.  
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<p>If your subscribers use this method to forward your campaign, any actions (clicks, forwards etc) taken by the new recipient will be included in your campaign statistics separately.
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<p>It is possible for you subscribers to forward the message by other means, but you cannot reliably tell: any clicks or opens in an email which has been forwarded without the Forward to a Friend system will be recorded as actions of the original subscriber.
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<p>It is therefore worth including an option to forward the campaign, using the <strong>[FORWARDURL] </strong>placeholder, in the header or footer. For example,
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<p> <img alt="using forward to freind feature in footer of phpList" src="/phplist/_edit/static/phpList_forward_to_friend_html.png" height="165" width="492"/><br/></p>
<p>The subscriber will then see a forwarding link in the email footer:
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<p><img alt="forward link in footer, phpList" src="/phplist/_edit/static/phpList_forward_to_friend_in_email_footer.png" height="139" width="556"/><br/></p>
<p>When a subscriber clicks this link they are prompted to enter an email:
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<p><img alt="forward to freind system, phplist. enter an email" src="/phplist/_edit/static/phpList_forward_to_friend_system.png" height="288" width="624"/><br/></p>
<h2>Feedback
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<p>Discuss this chapter <a href="https://discuss.phplist.org/t/advanced-campaign-statistics-manual-chapter-feedback-and-discussion/224">here</a>.
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