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id: sm-performance-analytics
name: "performance-analytics"
url: https://skills.yangsir.net/skill/sm-performance-analytics
author: anthropics
domain: data-analysis
tags: ["performance-metrics", "data-visualization", "business-intelligence", "sql", "dashboarding"]
install_count: 260
rating: 4.10 (48 reviews)
github: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
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# performance-analytics

> 提供衡量、报告和优化跨渠道营销绩效的分析框架和关键指标。，AI Agent Skill，提升工作效率和自动化能力

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## Before / After 对比

### 营销活动效果分析

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## Readme

# performance-analytics

# Performance Analytics Skill

Frameworks for measuring, reporting, and optimizing marketing performance across channels and campaigns.

## Key Marketing Metrics by Channel

### Email Marketing

Metric
Definition
Benchmark Range
What It Tells You

Delivery rate
Emails delivered / emails sent
95-99%
List health and sender reputation

Open rate
Unique opens / emails delivered
15-30%
Subject line and sender effectiveness

Click-through rate (CTR)
Unique clicks / emails delivered
2-5%
Content relevance and CTA effectiveness

Click-to-open rate (CTOR)
Unique clicks / unique opens
10-20%
Email content quality (for those who opened)

Unsubscribe rate
Unsubscribes / emails delivered
<0.5%
Content-audience fit and frequency tolerance

Bounce rate
Bounces / emails sent
<2%
List quality and data hygiene

Conversion rate
Conversions / emails delivered
1-5%
End-to-end email effectiveness

Revenue per email
Total revenue / emails sent
Varies
Direct revenue attribution

List growth rate
(New subscribers - unsubscribes) / total list
2-5% monthly
Audience building health

### Social Media

Metric
Definition
What It Tells You

Impressions
Number of times content was displayed
Content distribution and reach

Reach
Number of unique users who saw content
Audience breadth

Engagement rate
(Likes + comments + shares) / reach
Content resonance

Click-through rate
Link clicks / impressions
Traffic driving effectiveness

Follower growth rate
Net new followers / total followers per period
Audience building

Share/Repost rate
Shares / reach
Content virality and advocacy

Video view rate
Views / impressions
Video content hook effectiveness

Video completion rate
Completed views / total views
Video content quality and length fit

Social share of voice
Your mentions / total category mentions
Brand visibility vs. competitors

### Paid Advertising (Search and Social)

Metric
Definition
What It Tells You

Impressions
Times ad was shown
Budget utilization and targeting breadth

Click-through rate (CTR)
Clicks / impressions
Ad creative and targeting relevance

Cost per click (CPC)
Total spend / clicks
Cost efficiency of traffic generation

Cost per mille (CPM)
Cost per 1,000 impressions
Awareness cost efficiency

Conversion rate
Conversions / clicks
Landing page and offer effectiveness

Cost per acquisition (CPA)
Total spend / conversions
Full-funnel cost efficiency

Return on ad spend (ROAS)
Revenue / ad spend
Revenue generation efficiency

Quality Score (search)
Google's relevance rating (1-10)
Ad-keyword-landing page alignment

Frequency
Average times a user sees the ad
Ad fatigue risk

View-through conversions
Conversions from users who saw but did not click
Display/awareness campaign influence

### SEO / Organic Search

Metric
Definition
What It Tells You

Organic sessions
Visits from organic search
SEO effectiveness and content reach

Keyword rankings
Position for target keywords
Search visibility

Organic CTR
Clicks / impressions in search results
Title and meta description effectiveness

Pages indexed
Number of pages in search index
Crawlability and site health

Domain authority
Third-party authority score
Overall site strength

Backlinks
Number of external sites linking to you
Content authority and off-page SEO

Page load speed
Time to interactive
User experience and ranking factor

Organic conversion rate
Organic conversions / organic sessions
Content quality and intent alignment

Top entry pages
Most-visited pages from organic search
Content driving the most organic traffic

### Content Marketing

Metric
Definition
What It Tells You

Pageviews
Total views of content pages
Content reach and distribution

Unique visitors
Distinct users viewing content
Audience size

Average time on page
Time spent on content pages
Content engagement and depth

Bounce rate
Single-page sessions / total sessions
Content-audience fit and UX

Scroll depth
How far users scroll on a page
Content engagement through the piece

Social shares
Times content was shared on social
Content resonance and virality

Backlinks earned
External links to content
Content authority and SEO value

Lead generation
Leads attributed to content
Content conversion effectiveness

Content ROI
Revenue attributed / content production cost
Overall content investment return

### Overall Marketing / Pipeline

Metric
Definition
What It Tells You

Marketing qualified leads (MQLs)
Leads meeting marketing qualification criteria
Top-of-funnel effectiveness

Sales qualified leads (SQLs)
MQLs accepted by sales
Lead quality

MQL to SQL conversion rate
SQLs / MQLs
Marketing-sales alignment and lead quality

Pipeline generated
Dollar value of opportunities created
Marketing impact on revenue

Pipeline velocity
How fast deals move through pipeline
Campaign urgency and quality

Customer acquisition cost (CAC)
Total marketing + sales cost / new customers
Efficiency of customer acquisition

CAC payback period
Months to recover CAC from revenue
Unit economics health

Marketing-sourced revenue
Revenue from marketing-originated deals
Direct marketing contribution

Marketing-influenced revenue
Revenue from deals where marketing touched
Broader marketing impact

## Reporting Templates and Dashboards

### Weekly Marketing Report

Quick-scan format for team standups:

- **Top 3 metrics** with week-over-week change

- **What worked** this week (1-2 bullet points with data)

- **What needs attention** (1-2 bullet points with data)

- **This week's priorities** (3-5 action items)

### Monthly Marketing Report

Standard stakeholder report:

- Executive summary (3-5 sentences)

- Key metrics dashboard (table with MoM and target comparison)

- Channel-by-channel performance summary

- Campaign highlights and results

- What worked and what did not (with hypotheses)

- Recommendations and next month priorities

- Budget spend vs. plan

### Quarterly Business Review (QBR)

Strategic review for leadership:

- Quarter performance vs. goals

- Year-to-date trajectory

- Channel ROI analysis

- Campaign performance summary

- Competitive and market observations

- Strategic recommendations for next quarter

- Budget request and allocation plan

- Key experiments and learnings

### Dashboard Design Principles

- Lead with the metrics that map to business objectives (not vanity metrics)

- Show trends over time, not just point-in-time snapshots

- Include comparison context: prior period, target, benchmark

- Use consistent color coding: green (on track), yellow (at risk), red (off track)

- Group metrics by funnel stage or business question

- Keep dashboards to one page/screen — detail goes in appendix

- Update cadence should match decision cadence (real-time for paid, weekly for content)

## Trend Analysis and Forecasting

### Trend Identification

When analyzing performance data, look for:

- **Directional trends**: is the metric consistently going up, down, or flat over 4+ periods?

- **Inflection points**: where did performance change direction and what happened then?

- **Seasonality**: are there predictable patterns by day of week, month, or quarter?

- **Anomalies**: one-time spikes or drops — what caused them and are they repeatable?

- **Leading indicators**: which metrics change first and predict future outcomes?

### Trend Analysis Process

- Chart the metric over time (at least 8-12 data points for meaningful trends)

- Identify the overall direction (upward, downward, flat, cyclical)

- Calculate the rate of change (is it accelerating or decelerating?)

- Overlay key events (campaigns launched, product changes, market events)

- Compare to benchmarks or targets

- Identify correlations with other metrics

- Form hypotheses about causation (and plan tests to validate)

### Simple Forecasting Approaches

- **Linear projection**: extend the current trend line forward (useful for stable metrics)

- **Moving average**: smooth out noise by averaging the last 3-6 periods

- **Year-over-year comparison**: use last year's pattern as a baseline, adjusted for growth rate

- **Funnel math**: forecast outputs from inputs (e.g., if we generate X leads at Y conversion rate, we will get Z customers)

- **Scenario modeling**: create best case, expected case, and worst case projections

### Forecasting Caveats

- Short-term forecasts (1-3 months) are more reliable than long-term

- Forecasts based on fewer than 12 data points should be flagged as low confidence

- External factors (market shifts, competitive moves, economic changes) can invalidate trend-based forecasts

- Always present forecasts as ranges, not exact numbers

## Attribution Modeling Basics

### What Is Attribution?

Attribution determines which marketing touchpoints get credit for a conversion. This matters because buyers typically interact with multiple channels before converting.

### Common Attribution Models

Model
How It Works
Best For
Limitation

Last touch
100% credit to last interaction before conversion
Understanding final conversion triggers
Ignores awareness and nurture

First touch
100% credit to first interaction
Understanding top-of-funnel effectiveness
Ignores nurture and conversion drivers

Linear
Equal credit to all touchpoints
Fair representation of all channels
Does not reflect relative impact

Time decay
More credit to touchpoints closer to conversion
Balanced view favoring recent interactions
May undervalue awareness

Position-based (U-shaped)
40% first, 40% last, 20% split among middle
Valuing both discovery and conversion
Somewhat arbitrary weighting

Data-driven
Algorithmic credit based on conversion patterns
Most accurate representation
Requires significant data volume

### Attribution Practical Guidance

- Start with last-touch attribution if you have no model in place — it is the simplest and most actionable

- Compare first-touch and last-touch to understand which channels drive awareness vs. conversion

- Use position-based (U-shaped) as a reasonable middle ground for most B2B companies

- Data-driven attribution requires high conversion volume to be statistically meaningful

- No model is perfect — use attribution directionally, not as absolute truth

- Multi-touch attribution is better than single-touch, but any model is better than none

### Attribution Pitfalls

- Do not optimize one channel in isolation based on single-touch attribution

- Awareness channels (display, social, PR) will always look bad in last-touch models

- Conversion channels (search, retargeting) will always look bad in first-touch models

- Self-reported attribution ("how did you hear about us?") provides useful qualitative color but is unreliable as quantitative data

- Cross-device and cross-channel tracking gaps mean attribution data is always incomplete

## Optimization Recommendations Framework

### Optimization Process

- **Identify**: which metrics are underperforming vs. target or benchmark?

- **Diagnose**: where in the funnel is the problem? (impressions, clicks, conversions, retention)

- **Hypothesize**: what is causing the underperformance? (audience, message, creative, offer, timing, technical)

- **Prioritize**: which fixes will have the biggest impact with the least effort?

- **Test**: design an experiment to validate the hypothesis

- **Measure**: did the change improve the metric?

- **Scale or iterate**: roll out wins broadly; iterate on inconclusive or failed tests

### Optimization Levers by Funnel Stage

Funnel Stage
Problem Signal
Optimization Levers

Awareness
Low impressions, low reach
Budget, targeting, channel mix, creative format

Interest
Low CTR, low engagement
Ad creative, headlines, content hooks, audience targeting

Consideration
High bounce rate, low time on page
Landing page content, page speed, content relevance, UX

Conversion
Low conversion rate
Offer, CTA, form length, trust signals, page layout

Retention
High churn, low repeat engagement
Onboarding, email nurture, product experience, support

### Prioritization Framework

Rank optimization ideas on two dimensions:

**Impact** (how much will this move the metric?):

- High: directly addresses the primary bottleneck

- Medium: addresses a contributing factor

- Low: incremental improvement

**Effort** (how hard is this to implement?):

- Low: copy change, targeting adjustment, simple A/B test

- Medium: new creative, landing page redesign, workflow change

- High: new tool, cross-team project, major content production

Priority order:

- High impact, low effort (do immediately)

- High impact, high effort (plan and resource)

- Low impact, low effort (do if capacity allows)

- Low impact, high effort (deprioritize)

### Testing Best Practices

- Test one variable at a time for clean results

- Define the success metric before launching the test

- Calculate required sample size before starting (do not end tests early)

- Run tests for a minimum of one full business cycle (typically one week for B2B)

- Document all tests and results, regardless of outcome

- Share learnings across the team — failed tests are valuable information

- A test that confirms the status quo is not a failure — it builds confidence in your current approach

### Continuous Optimization Cadence

- **Daily**: monitor paid campaigns for budget pacing, anomalies, and disapproved ads

- **Weekly**: review channel performance, pause underperformers, scale winners

- **Bi-weekly**: refresh ad creative and test new variants

- **Monthly**: full performance review, identify new optimization opportunities, update forecasts

- **Quarterly**: strategic review of channel mix, budget allocation, and targeting strategy

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