Drip Email Stats Explanation

The Drip email stats that show up on Workflow or Eblast pages can be confusing for our customers. We have had cases where a customer reaches out to us because the numbers don’t add up or don’t match the number they selected in Lead Manager such as this one https://realgeeks.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/913171.

I will use the eblast from this ticket so we have some real world data.

General Notes:

The following stats will always be higher that the next one.
selected_count > sent_emails_count > delivered_count

These stats are all based on webhooks from Mailgun.
delivered_count, opened_count, clicked_count, unsubscribed_count, complained_count, dropped_count
They could all come much later or not at all depending if the recipient does anything, the email client, and the read receipt settings.

What the stats mean

  • Selected This is not shown anywhere
    :selected_count => 6649
    Emails selected to be sent in LM. This number may include leads with no email or bad emails which will not send.
  • Sent
    :sent_emails_count => 2717
    Emails accepted by Mailgun. Not guaranteed to be sent. This might be smaller than selected if Mailgun rejects the email without attempting to send.
  • Delivered
    :delivered_count => 2228
    Emails that Mailgun said where delivered. Includes emails that were sent to SPAM or silently dropped.
  • Opens
    :opened_count => 1882
    Number of times emails were opened. Can happen multiple times per email. Can also not be counted depending on mail client and settings.
  • Clicks
    :clicked_count => 27
    Number of times emails were opened. Can happen multiple times per email. Can also not be counted depending on mail client and settings.
  • Unsubs
    :unsubscribed_count => 21
    Number of unsubscribes
  • Spam R.
    :complained_count => 0
    Number of spam reports
  • Bounces
    :bounced_count => 226
    Number of bounces. Can happen multiple times per email.
  • Failures
    :dropped_count => 1652
    Number of drops. Can happen multiple times per email.