Glossary · email-marketing
What is Open rate?
Open rate is the percentage of delivered emails recorded as opened. It is measured by a tiny invisible image in the email that loads when the message is opened, which is why it has become unreliable. Apple Mail's privacy protection loads those images automatically for many users whether they read the email or not, inflating opens, while some other apps block images and under-count them. Open rate is still useful for comparing subject lines within the same list, or spotting a sudden drop that suggests a deliverability problem. For judging whether email is working, click rate, replies and sales from email are more trustworthy.
What does Open rate mean for a business in Pakistan?
Most Pakistani recipients read email in the Gmail app on Android, so the Apple inflation is smaller here than in lists of overseas customers. Lists that mix local and Gulf or UK subscribers can show very different open rates for reasons that have nothing to do with the email.
A worked example
Suppose a Karachi-and-Islamabad furniture brand sends two subject lines to halves of its list: 'New winter sofas' and 'Sofa dekhne showroom kab aayein?'. The Roman Urdu line records more opens and, more importantly, more clicks to the WhatsApp booking link, so it becomes the default style.
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Open rate — quick answers
What does Open rate mean?
Open rate is the percentage of delivered emails recorded as opened. It is measured by a tiny invisible image in the email that loads when the message is opened, which is why it has become unreliable.
Open rate ko Urdu mein kya kehte hain?
اوپن ریٹ — though in practice almost everyone in Pakistan says "open rate". Most Pakistani recipients read email in the Gmail app on Android, so the Apple inflation is smaller here than in lists of overseas customers.
Why does Open rate matter for a business in Pakistan?
Most Pakistani recipients read email in the Gmail app on Android, so the Apple inflation is smaller here than in lists of overseas customers. Lists that mix local and Gulf or UK subscribers can show very different open rates for reasons that have nothing to do with the email.
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