
Metrics and Benchmarks
Inbox Placement Rate vs Delivery Rate
Your delivery rate says 99% and a quarter of your email is in spam. Those are different numbers, and only one of them describes whether anyone saw your campaign.
Oct 16, 20265 min read
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Your delivery rate says 99% and a quarter of your email is in spam. Those are different numbers, and only one of them describes whether anyone saw your campaign.
Delivery rate tells you the receiving server accepted your email. Deliverability tells you it reached the inbox instead of the spam folder. Learn how to calculate both, why a 99% delivery rate can hide a placement disaster, how to diagnose spam folder placement without seed testing, and the benchmarks worth holding yourself to.