Understand the metrics in the Perlego Analytics tool

Active users is a unique count for the time period or time bucket selected. We count a user as active every time they login to Perlego.

If they select the ‘Keep me logged in’ option we will only count them as active if they trigger an event. Events include, but are not limited to, opening a book, highlighting and annotations, creating, opening or editing workspaces, assignments, bookmarking and searching. For the full list of events contact your Account Manager.

The first time a user becomes active is when they redeem their account.

Users can highlight text within a book and make notes against it.

This metric counts every time a note is created.

BeeLine is an eye guiding colour gradient that makes it easier to read long blocks of text. It helps users read more effectively with better focus.

This metric counts how many unique users have used the BeeLine gradient while reading a book.

Readers can bookmark throughout a book so they can pick up from where the stopped reading.

This metric counts every time a new bookmark is added by one of your users.

References can be generated in over 50 styles and citation links can be copied.

This metric counts every time a user clicks copy against a reference or citation. 

Readers can either highlight a word and open it in Oxford Learners Dictionary, or they can access the dictionary search from the readers controls.

This metric counts ever time a user opens the dictionary.

Readers have the option to change the text style to use the OpenDyslexic font.

This metric counts the number of times the font has been selected.

If the same user switches to the OpenDyslexic font multiple times then it will count each time it is selected.

Publishers provide Perlego with their books digital list price (DLP), we multiply this by the Unique Readers for each book.

This provides an estimated value of each book if you were to buy a digital copy for every reader, at the digital list price.

We describe it as an estimate as we do not have the digital list price for every book.

Users can highlight a section of text from a book.

This metric counts every time a highlight is added.

Read aloud allows books to be listened to.

This metrics counts the number of times your users have played read aloud.

Users have the choice of four background colours within the reader.

This metric counts the number of reading sessions where a user has changed the background colour.

This metric counts the number of books that have been opened by one or more users clicking ‘Read’.

It does not double count books within a date period or time bucket. If five users open the same book, that counts as one unique book opened.

This metric counts the number of unique users that have opened a book by clicking ‘Read’.

It does not double count users for within a date period or time bucket. For example, if a user reads five books, we only count them once.

Text size can be controlled from within the reader. 

This metric counts the number of reading sessions where a user has changed the text size at least once.

This metric counts the number of times your users open books by clicking ‘Read’.

It is cumulative because we will count the same book multiple times. It counts every time a book is opened regardless of whether it is the same user, opening the same book, as long as the book opens occur on different days. By this we mean, if a user opens the same book multiple times in the same day we only count it as one book open. If they open the same book five days in a row we count it as five book opens.

This metric is the sum total of reading minutes across all users for the time period or time bucket selected.

See Total Reading Time (Total Hours read) for an explanation of how we count reading time.

This metric shows the sum total of reading hours across all users for the time period or time bucket selected.

We only count the time the user is active, so we start counting reading time when a user opens a book. We do this using a timer that records their reading in five second intervals.

We stop recording reading time when the user is out of focus. On web, a user becomes out of focus when they start viewing a different tab or become inactive on Perlego. On mobile, the user is out of focus when the app is moved to the background or the screen is locked.

If a user spends less than 5 seconds reading a book no read record is created.

Workspaces allow users to create reading lists, and save books.

This metric counts every time a new workspace is created.