Marketplace Insights dashboard in commercial marketplace analytics
This article provides information on the Marketplace Insights dashboard in Partner Center. This dashboard displays a summary of commercial marketplace web analytics that enables publishers to measure customer engagement for their respective product detail pages listed in the commercial marketplace online stores: Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace.
For detailed definitions of analytics terminology, see Commercial marketplace analytics terminology and common questions.
Marketplace Insights dashboard
The Marketplace Insights dashboard presents an overview of Azure Marketplace and AppSource offers’ business performance. This dashboard provides a broad overview of the following:
- Page visits trend
- Call to actions trend
- Page visits and Call to actions against offers, referral domains, and campaign IDs
- Marketplace Insights by geography
- Marketplace Insights details table
The Marketplace Insights dashboard provides clickstream data, which shouldn't be correlated with leads generated in the lead destination endpoint.
Note
The maximum latency between users visiting offers on Azure Marketplace or AppSource and reporting in Partner Center is 48 hours.
Access the Marketplace insights dashboard
Note
The Partner Center workspaces view gives you a more efficient and productive user experience through logically grouped workspaces. To learn more about the workspaces view and how to turn it on, see Getting around Partner Center.
Sign in to Partner Center.
On the Home page, select the Insights tile.
In the left menu, select Marketplace insights.
Elements of the Marketplace Insights dashboard
The Marketplace Insights dashboard displays web telemetry details for Azure Marketplace and AppSource in two separate tabs. The following sections describe how to use the Marketplace Insights dashboard and how to read the data.
Month range
You can find a month range selection at the top-right corner of each page. Customize the output of the Marketplace Insights page graphs by selecting a month range based on the past 6 or 12 months, or by selecting a custom month range with a maximum duration of 12 months. The default month range (computation period) is six months.
Note
All metrics in the visualization widgets and export reports honor the computation period selected by the user.
Page visits trends
The Marketplace Insights Visitors chart displays a count of Page visits and Unique visitors for the selected computation period.
Page visits: This number represents the count of distinct user sessions on the offer listing page (product detail page) for a selected computation period. The red and green percentage indicators represent the growth percentage of page visits. The trend chart represents the month-to-month count of page visits.
Unique visitors: This number represents the distinct visitor count during the selected computation period for the offer(s) in Azure Marketplace and AppSource. A visitor who has visited one or more product detail pages will be counted as one unique visitor.
Call to actions trend
This number represents the count of Call to Action button clicks completed on the offer listing page (product detail page). Calls to action are counted when users select the Get It Now, Free Trial, Contact Me, or Test Drive buttons. Consent given represents the total count of clicks for customer-provided consent to Microsoft or the partner, and equals the number of customers acquired for your offers. The following two examples show where Consent given clicks appear:
The following graph shows the CTA vs. Consent given metric:
Page visits and Call to actions against offers, referral domains, and campaign IDs
Offers
Select a specific offer to see the monthly trend of page visits, calls to action, and consent-given clicks on the chart.
Referral domains
Selecting a specific referral domain shows the monthly trend of page visits, calls to action, and consent clicks on the chart to the right. Additionally, there is a column for Platform – website and client, displays for AppSource offers only. The funnel view depicts the conversions rates among page views, calls to action, and consent-given clicks on the chart.
Campaign IDs
By selecting a specific campaign ID, you should be able to understand the success of the campaign. For each campaign, you should be able to see the monthly trend of page visits, calls to action, and consent-given clicks on the chart.
Marketplace Insights by geography
For the selected computation period, the heatmap displays the count of page visits, unique visitors, and calls to action (CTA). The light to dark color on the map represents the low to high value of the unique visitors. Select a record in the table to zoom in on a country/region.
Note the following:
- You can move the map to view the exact location.
- You can zoom into a specific location.
- The heatmap has a supplementary grid to view the details of customer count, order count, and normalized usage hours in the specific location.
- You can search and select a country/region in the grid to zoom to the location in the map. Revert to the original view by selecting the Home button in the map.
Marketplace Insights details table
This table provides a list view of the page visits and the calls to action of your selected offers' pages sorted by date.
- The data can be extracted to a .TSV or .CSV file if the count of records is less than 1,000.
- If the count of records is over 1,000, exported data will be asynchronously placed in a downloads page for the next 30 days.
- Filter data by Offer names and Campaign names to display the data you are interested in.
Tip
You can use the download icon in the upper-right corner of any widget to download the data. You can provide feedback on each of the widgets by clicking on the “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” icon.
| Column name in user interface |
Attribute name | Definition | Column name in programmatic access reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Date of Visit | The date of page visit and/or CTA click event generation on the offer’s page in Azure Marketplace and/or AppSource. | Date |
| Offer Name | Offer Name | The name of the commercial marketplace offering. | OfferName |
| Referral Domain | Referral Domain | The name of the referral domain from where the page visit happened. If there are no referral domains captured for the page visit, then the corresponding entry is “Referral domain not present”. | ReferralDomain |
| Country Name | Country Name | The name of the country from where the page visit has happened. | CountryName |
| Page Visits | Page Visits | The number of page visits associated with the Offer Name for a particular date. | PageVisits |
| Get It Now | Get It Now | The number of clicks to the “Get It Now” CTA on the offer’s page for a particular date. | GetItNow |
| Contact Me | Contact Me | The number of clicks to the “Contact Me” CTA on the offer’s page for a particular date. | ContactMe |
| Test Drive | Test Drive | The number of clicks to the “Test Drive” CTA on the offer’s page for a particular date. | TestDrive |
| Free Trial | Free Trial | The number of clicks to the “Free Trial” CTA on the offer’s page for a particular date. | FreeTrial |
| Campaign | Name of the Campaign | Ability to understand web telemetry (page visit and CTA clicks) against the campaign name. | Campaign |
| Consent given | Consent given | Total count of clicks for customer-provided consent to Microsoft or the partner | consentGivenCount |
| Platform | Platform | Indicates website or client (in-product store) as the source for page view, CTA, or consent clicks | platforms |
| n/a | Site | The name of the storefront from which the page visit or CTA click occurred. The possible values are:
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Site |
Next steps
- For an overview of analytics reports available in the commercial marketplace, see Access analytic reports for the commercial marketplace in Partner Center.
- For information about your orders in a graphical and downloadable format, see Orders dashboard in commercial marketplace analytics.
- For virtual machine (VM) offers usage and metered billing metrics, see Usage dashboard in commercial marketplace analytics.
- For detailed information about your customers, including growth trends, see Customer dashboard in commercial marketplace analytics.
- For a list of your download requests over the last 30 days, see Downloads dashboard in commercial marketplace analytics.
- To see a consolidated view of customer feedback for offers on Azure Marketplace and AppSource, see Ratings & Reviews analytics dashboard in Partner Center.
- For frequently asked questions about commercial marketplace analytics and for a comprehensive dictionary of data terms, see Commercial marketplace analytics terminology and common questions.