Product Life-Cycle & Portfolio

Post-Launch KPI Dashboards: What to Track and Why

After release, the right dashboard focuses the team on leading indicators that predict staying power. Prove you can separate vanity numbers from the KPIs that actually drive outcomes.

In GA4, how do you treat a user action as a conversion in dashboards?

mark the relevant event as a conversion

use only predefined ecommerce goals

add a filter to sessions with UTM tags

create a separate view with goals

GA4 is event‑based; any event can be flagged as a conversion. You then analyse conversions in standard and custom reports.

What qualifies as an engaged session in GA4?

a session with at least 10 seconds of engagement, or 2+ page/screen views, or at least one conversion

sessions from returning users only

only sessions longer than five minutes

any session with a pageview

GA4 defines engaged sessions based on time, depth, or conversion. This underpins engagement rate calculations.

How is engagement rate calculated in GA4?

engaged sessions divided by users

conversions divided by users

pageviews divided by sessions

engaged sessions divided by total sessions

Engagement rate normalises engaged sessions against all sessions. It’s a leading indicator of attention quality.

Which report helps you analyse user retention over weeks after launch?

the Tech details report

the Monetisation overview only

the Cohorts report segmented by acquisition date

the Real‑time stream

Cohort analysis groups users by when they were acquired and tracks them across time windows. It reveals retention curves.

Which paired KPIs are commonly used to gauge product ‘stickiness’?

pageviews and average scroll depth

DAU/MAU ratio along with retention percentage

total installs and marketing spend

impressions and CTR

DAU/MAU summarises habitual use while retention shows how many users return. Together they indicate staying power.

In App Store Connect, what is the difference between Active Devices and First‑Time Downloads?

Active Devices count unique Apple IDs; First‑Time Downloads count updates

They are synonyms in Apple analytics

Active Devices count devices that used the app in a period; First‑Time Downloads count initial installs

Active Devices are push‑notification opt‑ins; First‑Time Downloads are trials

Active Devices reflect usage, not just acquisition. First‑Time Downloads measure new installs regardless of use.

Right after launch, which leading indicators offer early signals of long‑term retention quality?

bounce rate alone

ad spend and CPC

total pageviews and impressions

engagement rate and average engagement time per user

Time‑on‑task and engaged sessions correlate with depth of use. Volume metrics can be high yet low‑quality.

Where do you track funnel step completion in GA4 for post‑launch monitoring?

Audience builder only

DebugView

Conversions and Explorations with event‑based funnels

Realtime card

GA4 funnels operate on events and parameters. Conversions and Explorations let you define and track completion rates.

For a staggered multi‑country release, how can you compare performance by market?

look only at global totals to keep it simple

disable geo dimensions to avoid sampling

segment dashboards by Country/Region and break down conversions and retention per territory

average metrics across all countries to reduce noise

Geo segmentation surfaces adoption differences and helps tune localisation, pricing, and rollout pacing.

Which quality KPI should sit alongside growth metrics on a post‑launch dashboard for mobile apps?

crash rate/ANR trends with drill‑downs by app version

number of new blog posts

count of beta testers invited

length of your release notes

Reliability issues kill retention; tracking crash/ANR by version speeds triage and protects growth.

Starter

Great start—review the core concepts and patterns for this topic.

Solid

Strong performance—tighten definitions and apply them to edge cases.

Expert!

Outstanding—translate these insights into system design and decisions.

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