email marketing, we have focused on a number of key metrics that are both informative and useful, including: Open Rate.
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Table of Contents About the Author
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Unique Open Rates
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Overview
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Unique Open Rates by Send Volumes
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Key Findings Summary
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Unique Open Rates by Industry
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Unique Click Through Rates
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Unique Click Through Rates by Send Volumes
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Unique Click Through Rates by Industry
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Click Through Rate Relative to Open Rate
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Bounce Rates
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Bounce Rates by Send Volumes
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Bounce Rates by Industry
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Send Volumes, Open & CTR for the Top 15 Domains
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Open, CTR & Emails Sent by Day
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Time Taken to Open Emails
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Email Clients
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Glossary & Acronyms
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About the Author Vision6 is an Australian owned and operated company, founded in 2001 by friends and colleagues Evan Fortune and Mathew Myers. Together they identified that marketing professionals needed an easier way to create, send and track email messages; and to integrate e-messaging into the marketing mix. As a result the duo formed Vision6. Today we have grown to become a team of more than 30 developers and professionals and are passionate about all things e-messaging.
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We empower thousands of businesses to achieve great marketing results with our e-messaging platform. It brings together a mix of database, email, mobile and social media messaging tools in an easyto-use system. We actively contribute to the marketing community by writing whitepapers, providing free training and producing the Email Marketing Metrics Report. We’re also the organisers of Australia’s only email marketing summit (EMSA) and are always on the lookout for new ways to make our clients happy.
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Overview This report is the twelfth in a series of reports produced by Vision6 every six months on the Australian email marketing landscape. This report aims to:
What is included in this report? To make this data as useful as possible to professionals implementing email marketing, we have focused on a number of key metrics that are both informative and useful, including: Open Rate
General, Industry, Send Volume Categories
Click Through Rate
General, Industry, Send Volume Categories, Relative to Open
Industry
Open, CTRs, Send Volume Categories
Domain
Open, CTRs, Industry
By Day
Open, CTRs
This report includes data from over 274 million messages which were distributed via 107,000 sends by predominantly Australian based companies during the first six months of 2012.
By Hour
Open
Bounce & Deliverability
General, Industry
We have excluded campaigns with less than five email addresses to minimise data distortion. We also excluded all emails sent by our stand alone resellers and corporate networks.
Email Clients
Used to open
1. Help marketers gauge and improve their email marketing results by providing comparative benchmarks. 2. Uncover trends, provide observations and identify factors that could have the biggest impact on the success of your email campaigns.
Data Source
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We are always looking at ways to improve the Email Marketing Metrics Report. So, if you have any new statistics you’d like to see in this report contact us at
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Key Findings Summary
New data segments started in 2011
Measurement
Jan - Jun 2009
Jul - Dec 2009
Jan - Jun 2010
Jul - Dec 2010
Jan - Jun 2011
Jul - Dec 2011
Jan - June 2012
Overall Open Rate
23.73%
25.16%
23.48%
22.34%
22.47%
21.83%
21.96%
Open Rate By Send Volume
5-499: 34.62% 500-999: 31.68% 1,000+: 23.22%
5-499: 34.96% 500-999: 31.49% 1,000+: 24.74%
5-499: 34.24% 500-999: 30.30% 1,000+: 22.98%
5-499: 34.27% 500-999: 30.56% 1,000+: 21.73%
5-499: 34.34% 500-999: 30.24% 1,000-4,999: 23.62% 5,000-9,999: 23.10% 10,000+: 20.96%
5-499: 33.17% 500-999: 29.99% 1,000-4,999: 24.07% 5,000-9,999: 24.44% 10,000+: 19.76%
5-499: 35.02% 500-999: 30.42% 1,000-4,999: 24.64% 5,000-9,999: 24.77% 10,000+: 19.92%
Top 3 Industries with Highest Open Rates
Govt./Defence Primary Industry Accounting
Govt./Defence Mining/Oil/Gas Primary Industry
Mining/Oil/Gas Legal Govt./Defence
Mining/Oil/Gas Govt./Defence Transport/ Logistics
Legal Govt./Defence Mining/Oil/Gas
Legal Govt./Defence Mining/Oil/Gas
Govt./Defence Legal Accounting
Overall Click Through Rate
4.59%
5.46%
4.77%
4.67%
4.57%
4.22%
4.24%
Click Through Rate By Send Volume
5-499: 8.87% 500-999: 7.86% 1,000+: 4.39%
5-499: 8.86% 500-999: 7.74% 1,000+: 5.32%
5-499: 8.54% 500-999: 7.70% 1,000+: 4.59%
5-499: 8.26% 500-999: 6.60% 1,000+: 4.51%
5-499: 8.12% 500-999: 6.71% 1,000-4,999: 4.10% 5,000-9,999: 4.28% 10,000+: 4.50%
5-499: 7.31% 500-999: 6.36% 1,000-4,999: 4.00% 5,000-9,999: 4.12% 10,000+: 4.07%
5-499: 7.49% 500-999: 6.39% 1,000-4,999: 4.19% 5,000-9,999: 4.04% 10,000+: 4.07%
Top 3 Industries with Highest Click Through Rates
Call Centre/Cust Serv Mining/Oil/Gas Primary Industry
Mining/Oil/Gas Call Centre/Cust Serv Accounting
Call Centre/Cust Serv Mining/Oil/Gas Govt./Defence
Transport/ Logistics Call Centre/Cust Serv Govt./Defence
Mining/Oil/Gas Education Govt./Defence
Mining/Oil/Gas Education Govt./Defence
Govt./Defence Mining/Oil/Gas Legal
CTR Relative to Open Rates
19.34%
21.72%
20.34%
20.92%
20.33%
19.35%
19.92%
Overall Bounce Rates
7.22%
6.29%
5.75%
5.77%
5.51%
5.45%
5.24%
Bounce Rates by Send Volume
5-499: 6.82% 500-999: 6.94% 1,000+: 7.24%
5-499: 6.52% 500-999: 6.77% 1,000+: 6.27%
5-499: 6.10% 500-999: 6.19% 1,000+: 5.73%
5-499: 5.89% 500-999: 6.19% 1,000+: 5.75%
5-499: 5.91% 500-999: 5.89% 1,000-4,999: 5.60% 5,000-9,999: 6.29% 10,000+: 5.28%
5-499: 5.28% 500-999: 5.90% 1,000-4,999: 5.70% 5,000-9,999: 6.04% 10,000+: 5.26%
5-499: 5.18% 500-999: 5.72% 1,000-4,999: 5.68% 5,000-9,999: 5.81% 10,000+: 5.01%
Top 3 Industries with Lowest Bounce Rates
Legal Call Centre/Cust Serv Mining/Oil/Gas
Legal Accounting Call Centre/Cust Serv
Accounting Call Centre/Cust Serv Legal
Administration Call Centre/Cust Serv Transport/ Logistics
Call Centre/Cust Serv Legal Retail
Trades and Services Engineering Administration
Trades and Services Call Centre/Cust Serv Legal
Most Popular Day for Sends
Wednesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
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Unique Open Rates Click to Tweet me
This chart displays the total number of unique emails opened for the first time (as opposed to being opened multiple times by the same recipient) as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.
The average email open rate is 21.96%
A contact is deemed to have opened an email when either: images within the email are viewed or downloaded (even within the preview pane of the email client, eg Outlook); or when a link within the email is clicked on.
Findings Unique Open Rates for Jan - Jul 2012 were slightly higher than the second half of 2011.
Tips Use a “from name” that your recipients will know and trust such as your company name. Write a compelling subject line that entices recipients to open your email. Your subject line should be intriguing – you could ask a question or state a benefit.
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If your email open rates are on the decline, then it’s a sign you are losing the attention of your subscribers. Here are some practical tips to help improve open rates for your next campaign: 3 surefire ways to improve email open rates Writing good email subject lines Email subject lines - debunking the myths Getting noticed in the inbox (Video)
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Unique Open Rates by Send Volumes Click to Tweet me
To remove any bias associated with large sends we have broken the Send Volumes into five categories based on the number of contacts: 5,000 - 9,999 5 - 499 10,000+ 500 - 999 1,000 - 4,999
Send relevant email content to smaller database segments for best results
Findings Unique open rates have improved across the board, with only slight variations. Email sends to smaller recipient lists continue to out perform those sent to larger lists.
Tips If you have a large list try sending targeted emails to smaller segments so that readers receive highly relevant email content.
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Jul - Dec 2011 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
33.17% 29.99% 24.07% 24.44% 19.76%
Jan - Jun 2012 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
35.02% 30.42% 23.64% 24.77% 19.92%
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Unique Open Rates by Industry
Industry
Open Rate Jul - Dec 2011 (%)
Open Rate Jan - Jun 2012 (%)
% Change Jul - Dec 2011 to Jan - Jun 2012
Government/Defence
31.66
33.64
+1.98
Mining/Oil/Gas
30.94
25.87
-5.07
Primary Industry
26.81
23.78
-3.03
Accounting
26.19
28.93
+2.74
Call Centre/Customer Service
25.92
26.12
+0.2
Banking and Financial Services
25.8
26.21
+0.41
Findings
Insurance and Superannuation
27.1
28.05
+0.95
Administration
24.27
28.61
+4.34
In this report 16 industries have experienced increasing open rates while only 11 industries have experienced decreasing open rates.
Manufacturing/Operations
26.38
23.2
-3.18
Trades and Services
21.45
19.99
-1.46
Transport and Logistics
22.89
28.17
+5.28
Advertising/Media/Entertainment
20.37
20.7
+0.33
Real Estate and Property
23.08
25.59
+2.51
Education and Training
24.66
24.59
-0.07
The industries that have most improved since the last report are Transport and Logistics (+5.28%), Administration (+4.34%) and Health Care and Medical (+2.98%).
Engineering
22.9
20.96
-1.94
Legal
32.82
33.38
+0.56
Retail and Consumer Products
23.65
25.66
+2.01
The industry with the biggest decrease in Unique Open Rates was Mining/Oil/Gas (-5.07%).
Consulting and Corporate Strategy
18.23
15.57
-2.66
Other
25.85
26.13
+0.28
Hospitality and Tourism
19.82
20.93
+1.11
Community and Sport
23.63
24.3
+0.67
Human Resources and Recruitment
20.72
20.75
+0.03
Health Care and Medical
23.88
26.86
+2.98
IT and Telecommunications
17.7
17
-0.70
Construction
20.99
15.73
-5.26
Science and Technology
21.04
18.53
-2.51
Sales and Marketing
14.79
11.12
-3.67
This table displays Unique Open Rates for emails sent by key industry sectors and the percentage change between Jul - Dec 2011 and Jan Jun 2012.
The industries with the highest Unique Open Rates for Jan - Jun 2012 were Government/Defence (33.64%) and Legal (33.38%) followed by Accounting (28.93%).
Open Rates Increase: Open Rates Decrease:
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Unique Click Through Rates This chart displays the total number of ‘unique link’ clicks as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.
Findings Unique CTR’s across all industries, domains and send volumes were higher than the second half of 2011 by 0.02%. This figure only takes into account the first time an individual clicks on a link.
Tips The best way to increase your CTR is to make sure that your content is highly relevant and interesting. Include a strong call to action within the top 300 pixels of your email. Be clear on what action you want people to take from your email. A simple call to action with a text or image link can increase CTR’s.
Jul - Dec 2011:
4.22%
Jan - Jun 2012:
4.24%
Consider tweaking the format of your email as this can have a dramatic effect on your CTR. Use headlines, colour, text formatting and images to enable quick scanning of your email so readers can easily recognise what you’re asking them to do. DESIGNING YOUR EMAIL
For further information about how email design can help you to improve your click through rates check out our free “The A-Z of Email Design” whitepaper.
Here are some practical tips to improve your CTR: 6 things you can do to make your email look awesome Anatomy of a great email newsletter 5 simple tips for improving email response rates Cool email ideas that don’t require Photoshop
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Unique Click Through Rates by Send Volumes Click to Tweet me
This chart displays unique link clicks as a percentage of the total number of emails sent, whereby send volumes are broken into five categories based on the number of contacts: 5 - 499 5,000 - 9,999 500 - 999 10,000+ 1,000 - 4,999
Your email is almost twice as likely to get opened if it’s sent to a smaller database
Findings Unique CTR’s across all database sizes are approximately the same as 2011 with only sight increases and decreases.
Tips Jul - Dec 2011 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
The first step to improving click rates is to provide valuable content which readers want to learn more about. You can create links to pages on your website, web forms, social media pages, shopping carts or videos. Using links to landing pages is also an effective way to shorten your email as it moves a lot of content out of the body of your message. To ensure that your content, information and offers are relevant to your audience use conditional content to control what subscribers see based on their profile. For example, only show a drink special to people over 18.
7.31% 6.36% 4.00% 4.12% 4.07%
Jan - Jun 2012 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
7.49% 6.39% 4.19% 4.04% 4.07%
Increase content relevance
Boost email relevance in 5 steps with conditional content 7 tips for creating an email call to action that works
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Unique Click Through Rates by Industry
Industry
Unique CTR Jul-Dec 2011 (%)
Unique CTR Jan-June 2012 (%)
% Change Jul-Dec 2011 to Jan-Jun 2012
Government/Defence
8.48
8.89
+0.41
Mining/Oil/Gas
6.72
8.83
+2.11
Primary Industry
4.42
5.52
+1.10
Accounting
4.28
4.26
-0.02
Call Centre/Customer Service
7.03
6.72
-0.31
Findings
Banking and Financial Services
3.78
3.56
-0.22
Insurance and Superannuation
7.37
6.78
-0.59
The general downward trend of Open Rates and CTR’s over the last two years seems to be evening out with 14 industries (down from 17) experiencing an increase and 13 (up from 10) experiencing a decrease.
Administration
3.78
5.09
+1.31
Manufacturing/Operations
4.55
3.3
-1.25
Trades and Services
2.44
2.1
-0.34
Transport and Logistics
2.49
3.64
+1.15
Advertising/Media/Entertainment
3.61
3.86
+0.25
Real Estate and Property
3.04
3.41
+0.37
Education and Training
7.66
6.35
-1.31
Engineering
3.75
2.81
-0.94
Legal
6.15
7.86
+1.71
Retail and Consumer Products
4.94
5.19
+0.25
Consulting and Corporate Strategy
3.52
2.17
-1.35
Other
4.99
5.47
+0.48
Hospitality and Tourism
3.32
3.45
+0.13
Community and Sport
3.93
4.3
+0.37
Human Resources and Recruitment
3.7
3.45
-0.25
Health Care and Medical
4.68
4.88
+0.20
IT and Telecommunications
2.25
4.26
+2.01
Construction
2.64
1.7
-0.94
Science and Technology
3.24
1.82
-1.42
Sales and Marketing
4.29
2.68
-1.61
This table displays the Unique Click Through Rates experienced by each industry sector and the percentage change between Jul - Dec 2011 and Jan - Jun 2012.
The industries with the highest Unique CTR’s are Government/ Defence (8.89%), Mining/Oil/Gas (8.83%) and Legal (7.86%). The industry showing the greatest improvement was Mining/Oil/Gas (+2.11%) closely followed by IT and Telecommunications (+2.01%). The industry with the biggest decrease in CTR was Consulting and Corporate Strategy (-2.01%).
CTR Increase: CTR Decrease:
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Click Through Rate Relative to Open Rate This chart displays average unique CTR as a percentage of the total number of unique opened emails. This indicates how responsive the recipients who have opened an email are, giving a direct measure of the effectiveness of the email’s links and calls to action.
Findings CTR Relative to Open Rate has shown a decrease of 0.06% from the the second half of 2011 to the first half of 2012.
Tips Use your click through rates to gauge what your audience is most interested in. This information can be used to improve subject lines and consequently your open rates.
Jul - Dec 2011:
19.35%
Jan - Jun 2012:
19.29%
For example if the majority of your recipients click on competitions and not articles maybe your subject line should change from “10 ways to avoid hipsters” to “WIN great prizes & learn how to avoid hipsters.”
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Bounce Rates This chart displays the total number of bounced emails as a percentage of the total number of emails sent. Bounce rates are often used as a key measure of deliverability and include permanent and temporary bounces. Permanent Bounces (AKA hard bounce) usually means the email address is incorrect or is no longer in operation. Temporary Bounces (AKA soft bounce) usually means the email address is temporarily unavailable, often because ‘server time expired’ or ‘mailbox full.’
Findings There has been a consistent trend of bounce rates gradually decreasing since the beginning of these reports in 2006 when the average bounce rate was 12.29%. In this half the bounce rates have continued to decrease and currently sit at 5.24%.
Jul - Dec 2011:
5.45%
Jan - Jun 2012:
5.24%
Tips Permanent bounces should be updated with a new email address or removed from your list. If your bounce rate is regularly 6% or higher it’s time for a data cleanse. You may be able to contact them using another method (such as phone or point of sale) to update contact details.
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Bounce Rates by Send Volumes This chart displays the total number of bounced messages as a percentage of the total amount of emails sent. Send volumes are broken into five categories based on the number of contacts: 5 - 499 5,000 - 9,999 500 - 999 10,000+ 1,000 - 4,999
Findings Bounce rates for Jan - Jun 2012 have decreased across the board.
Jul - Dec 2011 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
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5.28% 5.90% 5.70% 6.04% 5.26%
Jan - Jun 2012 5 - 499: 500 - 999: 1,000-4,999: 5,000-9,999: 10,000+:
5.18% 5.72% 5.68% 5.81% 5.01%
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Bounce Rates by Industry This table displays Bounce Rates by industry. To understand this table you need to be aware that: Increasing Bounce Rates are adverse. This is why an increasing percentage change is coloured red. Decreasing Bounce Rates are ideal. This is why a decreasing percentage change is coloured green.
Findings Trades and Services achieved the lowest bounce rate (1.98%). Science and Technology (-3.06%) and Manufacturing and Operations (-3.21%) showed the greatest improvement. Though it’s improving Science and Technology remains the worst performing industry with a high bounce rate of (11.67%) closely followed by Construction (11.28%).
Bounce Rate Increase: Bounce Rate Decrease:
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Bounce Rate Jul - Dec 2011 (%)
Bounce Rate Jan - Jun 2012 (%)
% Change Jul - Dec 2011 to Jan - Jun 2012
Government/ Defence
4.43
5.38
+0.95
Mining/Oil/Gas
6.22
7.02
+0.8 +0.42
Industry
Primary Industry
5.15
5.57
Accounting
7.33
7.13
-0.20
Call Centre/ Customer Service
3.29
3.11
-0.18
Banking and Financial Services
9.82
11.16
+1.34 +0.41
Insurance and Superannuation
7.01
7.42
Administration
4.18
5.16
+0.98
Manufacturing/ Operations
10.47
7.26
-3.21
Trades and Services
2.9
1.98
-0.92
Transport and Logistics
5.37
4.88
-0.49
Advertising/ Media/ Entertainment
4.84
5.2
+0.36
Real Estate and Property
5.81
7.18
+1.37
Education and Training
6.42
6.23
-0.19
Engineering
6.68
6.36
-0.32
Legal
3.05
4.32
+1.27
Retail and Consumer Products
4.55
4.47
-0.08
Consulting and Corporate Strategy
9.18
8.43
-0.75
Other
5.87
5.96
+0.09
Hospitality and Tourism
4.66
4.44
-0.22
Community and Sport
5.83
5.17
-0.66
Human Resources and Recruitment
9.8
9.43
-0.37
Health Care and Medical
7.74
7.05
-0.69
IT and Telecommunications
8.57
5.93
-2.64 +1.26
Construction
10.02
11.28
Science and Technology
15.27
11.67
-3.60
Sales and Marketing
6.41
4.77
-1.64
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Send Volumes, Open & CTR for the Top 15 Domains Click to Tweet me
These charts display the top 15 domains by send volume and their associated Open Rates and CTRs.
Hotmail receives almost 5 times as many emails as other domains
Findings The top 15 domains are all web and ISP based accounts. No business or government domain was listed in the top 15. hotmail.com once again received almost five times as many emails as any other domain (21.50%). tpg.com.au and iinet.net.au were joined by bigpond.net.au achieving the highest open rates of any domain with rates of over 30%. Click Through rates remain largely unchanged.
% Volume Jul - Dec 2011 % Volume Jan - Jun 2012 % Opened % Clicked
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Open, CTR & Emails Sent by Day Click to Tweet me
These charts display the average Open Rates and CTRs by day, and the total amount of emails sent on each day for the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2012.
Emails sent on a Wednesday have the best chance of being opened
Findings All days of the week are seeing quite even open and click-through rates though Saturday has decreased slightly. Thursday continues to be the day on which the most emails are sent, despite having fairly average open and click through rates (21.06%). Send rates on Tuesday and Wednesday seem to be catching up to Thursday increasing by approximately 1%.
% Volume Jul - Dec 2011 % Volume Jan - Jun 2012 % Opened % Clicked
Tips Know your audience and their habits and routines. Then test, test and test some more. A simple way to do this is to send the same email to different parts of your database on different days.
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Time Taken to Open Emails Click to Tweet me
This chart displays the amount of time it takes for recipients to open the email after it has been sent.
30% of people who open your email will do so within 1 hour of it being sent
Findings The number of emails opened within the first hour of delivery has risen from 29.46% in Jul Dec 2011 to 30.20% in Jan - Jun 2012. 91.66% of all emails are opened within the first 72 hours of being received. This number has been increasing since these reports began in 2006.
Tips As mobile devices become more and more prominent (see page 19) the time it takes to open emails is decreasing. With this in mind it is always good to test your email across mobile platforms. Try to design your emails with mobile screen sizes in mind.
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Which email clients are people using? This chart shows the popularity of the different email clients people use to first open their emails.
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Email clients can be categorised as the following:
24.33% of your emails will be read on a mobile device
Desktop application: Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Apple WebKit and Outlook 2010. Web-based interface: Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail. Mobile device: iPhone Mail, iPad Mail, Android.
Findings Desktop applications continue to dominate with 46.83% of emails being opened using Outlook or Apple Mail. The use of mobile devices is increasing dramatically with 24.33% of emails being opened using these devices in the first half of 2012 compared to 18% in the last half of 2011. iPhone Mail (16.28%) is now more popular than Hotmail (10.75%). With the increasing popularity of smart phones, it is reasonable to expect the increasing use of mobile devices to continue in the future. The use of web-based interface email clients seems to have decreased (12.32%) however this low number may in part be due to an increase in the ‘Other’ category which now accounts for 16.53%.
Further information
Visit the Vision6 Blog for some practical design tips on designing emails for mobile devices: Mobile email design tips Like to see how your email looks in the above email clients? Check out the Vision6 Email Testing feature
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Glossary & Acronyms EDM
Open Rate
Electronic Direct Marketing.
Measures the number of times an email is opened by a recipient as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.
ISP Internet Service Provider, e.g. BigPond.
CTR’s
Unique Open Rate Measures the first time an email is opened by a recipient as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.
Click Through Rates.
Permanent Bounce Unique CTR Measures the first time a link is clicked by a recipient as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.
Usually means the email address is incorrect or is no longer in operation – sometimes referred to as a Hard Bounce.
Temporary Bounce CTR Relative to Open Measures the CTR as a percentage of the total number of unique opened emails.
Usually means the email address is temporarily unavailable. The most common Temporary Bounce reasons are ‘Server Time Expired’ (for receiving ISP), ‘Delivery Time Expired’ (for sending ISP) and ‘Mailbox Full’ – sometimes referred to as a Soft Bounce.
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January – June 2012 Email Marketing Metrics Report Australia
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