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Activation

Explore how to measure API activation by learning core metrics such as Time to First Transaction and Time to Value. Understand cohort analysis and active user tracking to evaluate user engagement, improve onboarding, and optimize your API product for customer success.

Activation metrics attempt to measure how many users have started to use our product and find value. The first challenge of defining an activation metric is how we define a user as being active. This usually varies from business to business. For example, if we are looking at a business in the payments domain, we can expect that an active user will have a certain number of weekly transactions. Similarly, if we look at the communications domain, a user sending a minimum of a certain number of messages a day might be considered active. Any users who are actively using the product can be considered active ...

Product metrics to measure activation
Product metrics to measure activation

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