Metrics reference
Columns fall into three families.- Engagement metrics: plain counts and totals.
- Retention: Cohorted data (Resets per window).
- ROAS: Cohorted data (Cumulative).
Engagement
Retention (Resets per window)
ROAS (Cumulative)
Cumulative vs. resetting
The two windowed families look alike — both come in day 1/3/7/14/30 flavors — but read them differently when reporting or charting. ROAS is cumulative Each window includes every prior one.day_30_roas already contains the revenue counted in day_1_roas, day_7_roas, and so on — it’s running total ÷ spend, measured further and further out. Later windows are always greater than or equal to earlier ones for the same cohort.
day_1: 0.12 → day_7: 0.31 → day_30: 0.50
Retention is not cumulative
Each window is an independent snapshot: the share of the cohort that came back on that specific day, not the share that came back at any point up to it. day_30_retention does not include the users counted in day_1_retention — it can be lower, higher, or unrelated.
day_1: 0.42 → day_7: 0.18 → day_30: 0.09