Product-Led Growth Metrics

A list of the key metrics you need to have at hand to grow a healthy SaaS business

Product usage metrics

Conversion rate
Customer go through various milestones and stages in the funnel. The conversion rate is the percentage of users who go from one stage to the next. Divide the number of users in the current stage by the total number of users in the previous stage.
Daily Active Accounts
DAA are the number of users who open your product every day. Once you define what an active user is, you just need to measure how many number of them meet that threshold on a daily basis to determine your DAA.
Daily Active Users
DAU are the number of users who open your product every day. Once you define what an active user is, you just need to measure how many people meet that threshold on a daily basis to determine your DAU.
Feature usage
This is the percentage of users who use a particular product features. To get feature usage over a certain period of time, divide the number of users who used a feature by the total number of users.
License utilization
License utilization is the ratio of active-users in an account and the total number of licenses purchased. It is an important metric for solutions that offer a seat-based pricing model.
Monthly Active Accounts
MAA are the number of accounts who open your product in a month. Once you define what an active account is, you just need to measure how many number of them meet that threshold on a monthly basis to determine your MAA.
Monthly Active Users
MAU are the number of users who open your product in a month. Once you define what an active user is, you just need to measure how many people meet that threshold on a monthly basis to determine your MAU.
Net promoter score
NPS shows how likely customers are to recommend your product. NPS is calculated by first surveying customers on how likely (1-10) they are to recommend the product. You then subtract the percentage of detractors from the promoters’.
New customer growth rate
New customer growth is the number of new customers a company acquires. NCGR is measured by taking the difference in customers from one period to the previous one, then dividing by the number of customers in the previous period.
Number of sessions
This measures how often users use the product in a given period of time. It gives insights into stickiness. If the number of active users or number of sessions is low, then the product is not capturing user needs.
Session length
It measures how long a user typically uses a product at a time. To get it, calculate the session length for all sessions by subtracting the start time from the end time. Then take the average within each period.
Weekly Active Accounts
WAA are the number of users who connect to your product in a week. Once you define what an active user is, you just need to measure how many number of them meet that threshold on a weekly basis to determine your WAA.
Weekly Active Users
WAU are the number of users who connect to your product in a week. Once you define what an active user is, you just need to measure how many people meet that threshold on a weekly basis to determine your WAU.

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