Glossary · Product analytics
Product analytics
Concepts for understanding user behavior, product value, and the outcomes experiments are meant to improve.
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Activation
The meaningful value milestone that turns a new user into an engaged one.
Activation Rate
Defining first value, activation events, and leading indicators.
Active User
A user definition based on meaningful activity rather than a generic visit.
Adoption Curve
How feature uptake develops over time and how to separate novelty from durable use.
Behavioral Analytics
Using product events to understand actions, journeys, and experiment outcomes.
Behavioral Cohort
Grouping people by shared actions to compare retention, conversion, or adoption.
Behavioral Targeting
Targeting based on observed actions while accounting for privacy and experiment bias.
Cohort Analysis
Behavioral cohorts, retention curves, and experiment segments.
Customer Effort Score (CES)
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Customer Journey Analytics
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Daily Active Users (DAU)
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Engagement
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Event-Based Analytics
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Feature Rollout
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Growth Loop
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Heatmap
Definition, behavioral context, and product-analysis applications.
Product Analytics
Events, users, features, funnels, cohorts, and product decisions.
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Fundamentals
Fundamentals
The conceptual foundation: what experiments are, how variants are compared, and how a testing program creates evidence.
CRO & funnels
CRO & funnels
Research-led optimization of the complete path from discovery to meaningful action.
Statistics
Statistics
Statistical terms will be published with notation, formulas, worked examples, assumptions, and interpretation warnings.
Metrics
Metrics
Metric pages will connect formulas to denominators, business outcomes, guardrails, and experiment use cases.
Design
Design
Plan tests that can answer a useful question without creating avoidable validity risks.
Data quality
Data quality
Checks that determine whether an experiment result can be trusted before it informs a decision.
Implementation
Implementation
The delivery and measurement foundations behind reliable product and web experiments.
Privacy
Privacy
Responsible measurement concepts for experimentation, marketing, and product analytics.