Channel Stream report: Key performance indicators

The metrics on the Channel Stream report provide data about the traffic and activity on each node. A node is a group of sessions that originated in a specific channel and that occur at a specific depth in a specific channel stream.

If you are in the Financial Services, Travel, or Content verticals, replace Buyers and Sales in the KPI name with the appropriate values for your vertical.

Table 1. KPI terms per vertical
Vertical KPI term
Financial Services Applicants, Path Applications
Travel Bookers, Path Revenue
Content Event Completers, Path Events
Visitors
The number of unique registered visitors (or unique cookie IDs in the absence of a registration ID) that came to your site through a session that belongs to the specified node.
Buyers
The number of visitors who made purchases during the report date range and came to your site through a session that belongs to the specified node.
% First Source
The percentage of Buyers or Visitors whose session in this node was the start of their channel stream.
Path Sales
The total value of purchases that were made during the report date range by visitors with a session in this node. This value includes purchases that were made by these visitors in sessions in other nodes in this path.
Days Between
The average number of days between a visitor's session in this node and the visitor's session in the next node in the stream.