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# How to track the effectiveness of your email pitches

## Optimize your email pitch monitoring with Prowly for improved campaign effectiveness.

**Email authentication changes coming in February 2024**

There’s a crucial update coming our way in **February 2024** from [Gmail](https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/) and [Yahoo!](https://blog.postmaster.yahooinc.com/post/730172167494483968/more-secure-less-spam) regarding email authentication. From this time, both companies have required bulk senders to authenticate their email domains.

This means that starting February 2024, it is **mandatory to authenticate your domain in Prowly in order to continue sending emails through our platform**.

For detailed instructions on how to authenticate your domain in Prowly, please refer to our [Help Center article](https://help.prowly.com/domain-authentication?hsLang=en).

After you’ve sent your email pitches through Prowly, you can start tracking results—including engagement, delivery, recipients statuses and replies. You can observe the separate statistics of a given sendout or the overall analytics of your mailings.

### Mailing analytics

To see mailing analytics for a given send out, go to the **Emails** module and choose a mailing you'd like to analyse by clicking on it:

![emails view](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20view.png?width=688&height=211&name=emails%20view.png)

Here, you can see the overview of your message with its most important elements, such as the subject line, sent date or the assigned campaign. Detailed analytics are available below this screen. Scroll down and choose from the **Statistics**, **Recipients** and **Replies** tabs:

![emails view tabs](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20view%20tabs.png?width=688&height=327&name=emails%20view%20tabs.png)

### Statistics

Under the default **Statistics** tab, you can access information about email engagement and delivery. 

#### Engagement

In this section, you can see various metrics that track and describe overall audience engagement with your mailing: 

![emails engagement](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20engagement.png?width=688&height=276&name=emails%20engagement.png)

#### Open rate

**Open rate**is the percentage of recipients who have opened the email pitch at least once out of the recipients who got your message. The calculation formula is as follows:

```
Open rate = Unique opens / Delivered emails
```

**Unique opens** show you how many recipients opened your email pitch.

**Total opens** show you how many times your email was opened in total. If a single recipient opens your email twice, it's going to be reflected as one unique open but two total opens. 

Both **Unique opens **and **Open rates** give you a good sense of the overall engagement with a specific email pitch and show you whether your subject lines are encouraging enough for the recipients to click on them.

Check out [our Prowly Magazine article](https://prowly.com/magazine/increase-email-open-rates/?hsLang=en) for more tips on how to **increase open rates of your emails**. Think of this short guide as a roadmap of what to do and what to check after you send the email.

To prevent your metrics from being skewed by mailboxes' security bots opening the email even before it reaches the recipient, you can turn on **adjusted open rates**. Learn more about how they work in [this article](https://help.prowly.com/why-are-some-of-my-emails-immediately-opened-and-clicked?hsLang=en#what-are-adjusted-open-and-click-rates).

#### Click rate

**Click rate** is the percentage of people who clicked on a link in your email out of the people who received your email pitch. The calculation formula is as follows:

```
Click rate = Unique clicks / Delivered emails
```

While **Opens** help you measure how many recipients opened your email pitch and at least looked at it, **Total clicks**measure how many times the links in your email were clicked. Similar to unique opens, **unique clicks** are counted as only one per recipient, while total clicks may include several clicks from a single recipient. 

**Click through rate**is the percentage of people who clicked a link in your email out of the people who opened your email pitch. The calculation formula is as follows:

```
Click through rate = Unique clicks / Unique opens
```

**Clicks**are quite important because they help you measure how effective your email pitches are when it comes to convincing the email recipients to take action (i.e. see a specific press release or visit a newsroom).  

If you notice lots of opensbut not as many clicks, you might want to experiment with email content, formatting, and your call-to-action.  

To prevent your metrics from being skewed by mailboxes' security bots clicking the email even before it reaches the recipient, you can turn on **adjusted click rates**. Learn more about how they work in [this article](https://help.prowly.com/why-are-some-of-my-emails-immediately-opened-and-clicked?hsLang=en#what-are-adjusted-open-and-click-rates).

#### Click by content

**Click by content** allows you to see the breakdown of different types of links that were included in the mailing and how many **unique clicks** were there for each of these types. Types of links include **press release**, **CTA** (call-to-action button), **attachment**, **other** (i.e. a regular link) and the **unsubscribed** button. To check the rates, simply hover your mouse over the different colors on the donut chart.

If you mark the **Total clicks **toggle, you will see the number of total clicks per each type of link, so they may include several clicks from one recipient.

To see more detailed information, click on the "**View clicks by content**" button. This will open a pop-up window, where you can see which exact elements were clicked and how many times. We show unique clicks by default, but you can always switch to summarised ones by marking **"total clicks".**

![clicks by content](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/clicks%20by%20content.png?width=688&height=278&name=clicks%20by%20content.png)

#### Bounce rate

**Bounce rate** shows the percentage of emails that couldn't be delivered out of all sent emails.

```
Bounce rate = Bounced emails / All sent emails
```

There are also many reasons why an email to a specific recipient might bounce, including their email address being non-existent, blocked, or their mailbox being full. More detailed information about the types of bounces can be found in the **Delivery** section of the email statistics.

#### Reply rate

**Reply rate** shows the percentage of recipients that replied to your email out of all emails that were delivered (not bounced).

```
Reply rate = Recipients who replied / All delivered emails
```

To collect replies in Prowly, you first need to [connect your inbox](https://help.prowly.com/how-to-connect-inbox-to-prowly?hsLang=en). For more details and insights regarding replies, click on the **Replies **tab.

#### Email viewing time

In this section, you can see how much time your recipients spent on viewing your email in a percentage breakdown of all recipients who opened it:

![email viewing time](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/email%20viewing%20time.png?width=688&height=126&name=email%20viewing%20time.png)

The available ranges are **Read** (at least 15 seconds), **Skimmed** (3 to 15 seconds) and **Glanced** (less than 3 seconds). 

This feature is only accessible for **Pro subscriptions** that have their [**domain authenticated.**](https://help.prowly.com/domain-authentication?hsLang=en)

#### Delivery

In this section, you can see a detailed breakdown of your mailing engagement. Take notice that **this data is based only on the unique opens and clicks**, so the total statistics might vary.

![emails delivery](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20delivery.png?width=688&height=322&name=emails%20delivery.png)

The first segment allows you to see how many emails were **sent** (in this case, 7 emails) and how many were **not sent** (1 email). If an email is not sent to a recipient, it's most likely due to them being blacklisted or blocked, and such emails are not counted towards your monthly email limit!

Next, you can see how many of these emails were **delivered** (7 emails) and how many **bounced** (0 emails). If there would be some bounced emails, you could then check how many were **soft** **bounces** (email reached the recipient, but their mailbox was full or the server was down) and how many were **hard** **bounces** (permanently rejected emails that won't be delivered to protect sender's reputation). Soft bounces are temporary, so there's a chance that by the next sendout, the email will be delivered to these recipients successfully.

Out of 7 delivered emails, 4 of them were **opened** and all of these opened emails were **clicked** (4 emails). The last column shows how many times **specific types of links were uniquely clicked** (4 recipients clicked on a press release link, 2 clicked on the attachment etc.)

### Recipients

To see the detailed information about each of your contacts, click on the **Recipients** tab. It shows a list of your contacts alongside their delivery status, personalization and contact information.

![emails recipients](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20recipients.png?width=688&height=203&name=emails%20recipients.png)

To see the **detailed delivery path for each recipient**, click the arrow next to their status and the "Show more" button at the bottom. The email actions are listed chronologically, starting from the bottom and progressing to the top.

![emails recipients detials](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20recipients%20detials.png?width=688&height=281&name=emails%20recipients%20detials.png)

Detailed recipient statuses are only accessible for **Pro subscriptions.**

### Replies

If you **connect your inbox**, you will be able to **receive and see replies to your mailings sent via Prowly**. Check this [Help Center article](https://help.prowly.com/how-to-connect-inbox-to-prowly?hsLang=en) to learn more.

After connecting inbox, sending out a mailing and receiving replies, you can see them in this tab:

![emails replies](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/emails%20replies.png?width=688&height=202&name=emails%20replies.png)

You can delete each message, mark it as unread or reply to it.

Replies are also visible on the **contact cards**. Access them by simply clicking on the names of the contacts in the Recipients tab.

### General emails analytics

To see the overall analytics of all your mailings, go to the **Emails** module and click on the "**Analytics**" tab:

![menu emails analytics](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/menu%20emails%20analytics.png?width=250&height=381&name=menu%20emails%20analytics.png)

By default, the results in the Analytics section are shown for **all mailings sent within the last 30 days**. However, you can freely modify the filters to include a broader or narrower chunk of your mailings in the metrics. To do so, go through the filters on the left side of the screen.

![analytics filters](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/analytics%20filters.png?width=250&height=409&name=analytics%20filters.png)Available filters are:

- **Campaign** - show mailings only from one selected campaign. If you want to see all mailings again, remove this filter by clicking "Clear".
- **Sent date** - filter mailings by their sent date.
- **Sender name** - filter mailings by their sender.
- **Created by** - filter mailings by the people who created them.

Once you have chosen the desired filters, you can scroll through the main part of the tab and gather all the valuable insights from your mailings.

The **Engagement** section gives you an overview of the most important metrics of your mailings and their overall performance. You'll find open, click, click through and reply rates here, alongside the total number of emails sent, number of recipients, followups and percentage of unsubscribed contacts. At the bottom, you can access the email viewing time graph to see the breakdown of time recipients spent viewing your email.

![analytics engagement](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/analytics%20engagement.png?width=688&height=417&name=analytics%20engagement.png)

Next, in the **Delivery** section, you can quickly see how many mailings were sent overall, how many of them were successfully delivered and how many bounced, including what was the total bounce rate.

![analytics delivery](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/analytics%20delivery.png?width=688&height=227&name=analytics%20delivery.png)

Scroll down to analyse the **Email performance chart**. It categorizes your mailings (the dots seen on the chart), visualizing their performance against the average open rate on the x-axis and the average click rate on the y-axis. This graph can help you determine which mailings performed better than the rest and why.

![analytics email performance chart](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/analytics%20email%20performance%20chart.png?width=688&height=460&name=analytics%20email%20performance%20chart.png)

Hover your mouse over the dots to see the details of the mailings. The best emails, marked with green dots, are those with open and click rates above the average. 

The last section is dedicated to the **Most engaged recipients**. You can analyse a list of contacts who often open your mailings. Moreover, you can see the recipients who don't interact at all by clicking the button below.

![analytics engaged recipients](https://help.prowly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Help/Emails/analytics%20engaged%20recipients.png?width=688&height=359&name=analytics%20engaged%20recipients.png)

### **What else should you know about email pitch analytics? **

1. Depending on the email service provider, you might have access to different metrics. **Keep in mind that not every provider calculates all these metrics the same way!  **
2. **Some email pitches will perform better than others**. Depending on your relationship with the recipients and their areas of interest, you will most likely see different results from different email pitches. That’s precisely why you should segment your media list and tailor email pitches to specific recipients. 
3. **Don’t be so hard on yourself. **Average open and click rates will vary from one PR outreach campaign to another, and some of them will be satisfactory even if they don’t seem like it at first. According to industry leaders, the open rate of email send-outs is around 20%

**Take into account that assessing the effectiveness of your PR efforts based on the results of one mailing is practically impossible.** Use the insights found in Prowly to [optimise your email pitches](https://help.prowly.com/how-to-optimize-the-recipients-list?hsLang=en) and plan your PR outreach accordingly.

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