Retention Analytics

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Located under the Analytics tab, ByteBrew's Retention Analytics Dashboard gives a unique view of your player's performance by breaking down your player's key performance indicators against each day they come back to play.

Required to Start using Retention Analytics

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To start using the Retention Analytics Dashboard, you must first have initialized the ByteBrew SDK in your game.

Retention Analytics Charts

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See the table below for a breakdown of all the Retention Analytics Charts.

Daily Retention Chart & Heatmap Retention chart calculates the daily user retention of players in the developer's games for up to 30 days in a visual graph. This is shown as a graph and heatmap.
Session Length by Retention Chart & Heatmap This metric calculates daily average session length broken down by each day your users return to play your game or app. This is shown as both a graph and heatmap.
Session Count by Retention Chart & Heatmap This metric calculates the number of daily average sessions per user broken down by each day your users return to play your game or app. This is shown as both a graph and heatmap.
Playtime by Retention Chart & Heatmap This metric calculates the daily average playtime per user broken down by each day your users return to play your game or app.
Cumulative Playtime by Retention Chart & Heatmap This metric calculates the total summed playtime of users based on the day they return to play your game of app. For example, cumulative playtime of a user returning on Day 4 will sum their playtime of Day 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 to show the total cumulative playtime of that user.
Purchases by Retention Chart This chart shows the average number of users that make a purchase based on the day they return to play your game. Purchase Tracking in your ByteBrew SDK implementation is required to see this metric.
Ads Watched by Retention Chart This chart shows the average number of ads watched by users based on the day they return to play the game. Ad Tracking in your ByteBrew SDK implementation is required to see this metric.

Timespan Settings

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At the top of the Retention Analytics dashboard you have the power to set the retaining date range for all your retention metrics using the Timespan Settings. See below for the options for settings your timespan:

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Days: See options for daily retention below.
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7 Days
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14 Days
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28 Days
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60 Days
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90 Days
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180 Days
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365 Days
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Custom

Choosing Custom retention range, you can set the exact dates you want to see in all charts on Retention Analytics.

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Weeks: See options for Weekly retention below.
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4 Weeks
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8 Weeks
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16 Weeks
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24 Weeks
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32 Weeks
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46 Weeks
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52 Weeks
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Choosing Custom retention range, you can set the exact dates you want to see in all charts on Retention Analytics.

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Months: See options for Monthly retention below.
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2 Months
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4 Months
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8 Months
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12 Months
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18 Months
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Choosing Custom retention range, you can set the exact dates you want to see in all charts on Retention Analytics.

Exporting Charts

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Every chart on the ByteBrew dashboard is able to be exported via .csv by clicking on the three dots icon in the corner of the chart.


FAQs

All analytics on ByteBrew shows up in real-time. There aren't any wait periods like other platforms. Seconds after your user's play your game, you will see data start showing up on the dashboard.

To see data populate in the Retention Analytics dashboard, first make sure to initialize the ByteBrew SDK in your project.

The dashboard operates in UTC time.

If you are having trouble seeing your data show up on the dashboard while testing your game, make sure that you've integrated the ByteBrew SDK correctly.

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