Sourcing & Outreach
Open Rates and Reporting on Sequences
2 min
for more on the sequence pipeline and metrics check out docid\ b2gy2rhnnoylkbhwcwou4 due to privacy tools like apple mail privacy protection and gmail image proxying pre loading images in emails, opens can be automatically triggered, causing an inflated open rate the root cause of these results is industry wide changes in email privacy tools and isn’t specific to ashby email sequences to combat this impacting your reporting on sequences, we recommend focusing on click and conversion metrics bots rarely impact click metrics and conversions always require human action if you are seeing inflated click rates, this could be due to corporate scanners like mimecast and barracuda that automatically click links to check for malware below you can find a list of definitions for common terms around sequence metrics for your reference open rate percentage of recipients who open a specific email out of the total number of recipients click rate refers to the measure of how many people clicked on a hyperlink, call to action, or image within the email’s content out of all the recipients in other words, the unique individuals who clicked, divided by the total number of recipients this is commonly a way to measure engagement and interest conversions counts the number of recipients who complete a goal action after reading the email in ashby, this would translate to a candidate replying to the email if you have further questions about inflated sequence metrics, please reach out to support\@ashbyhq com