KPI Tree

Klaviyo Metric

Email Marketing

Email list health score is a composite metric combining Klaviyo list growth rate, engagement distribution, bounce rate, complaint rate, and unsubscribe rate to produce a single indicator of overall list quality. It assesses whether your subscriber base is growing, engaged, and deliverable.

KlaviyoEmail Marketing

Email List Health Score

Email list health score is a composite metric combining Klaviyo list growth rate, engagement distribution, bounce rate, complaint rate, and unsubscribe rate to produce a single indicator of overall list quality. It assesses whether your subscriber base is growing, engaged, and deliverable.

Why email list health score matters for Klaviyo users

A large list is worthless if it is full of disengaged subscribers who damage your sender reputation and suppress deliverability. List health score captures the balance between quantity and quality, surfacing problems that individual metrics - growth, engagement, deliverability - might not reveal in isolation.

Positioning list health at the foundation of your metric tree ensures that every email programme decision is grounded in sustainable list management. A declining health score is an early warning that your programme is extracting value from subscribers faster than it creates it.

Understand and act on email list health score with KPI Tree

KPI Tree calculates a composite list health score from your warehouse data, combining growth, engagement, deliverability, and churn metrics. Position it as a foundational indicator in your email tree.

Assign RACI ownership to your email operations lead. Set alerts when list health score declines and track hygiene actions such as sunset flows, re-engagement campaigns, and acquisition source audits.

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List Growth Rate

Email Marketing

Metric Definition

List Growth Rate = ((New Subscribers - Unsubscribes - Bounces) / Total Subscribers at Start) x 100

List growth rate measures the net rate at which your Klaviyo subscriber list expands over a given period, accounting for new subscriptions, unsubscribes, bounces, and manual removals. It indicates the trajectory of your addressable email audience and the sustainability of your acquisition efforts.

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Email Deliverability Rate

Email Marketing

Metric Definition

Deliverability Rate = (Emails Delivered / Emails Sent) x 100

Email deliverability rate measures the percentage of Klaviyo emails that are successfully delivered to recipients' inboxes without bouncing. It encompasses hard bounces, soft bounces, and spam folder placement to assess the technical health of your email programme and sender reputation.

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Unsubscribe Rate

Email Marketing

Metric Definition

Unsubscribe Rate = (Unsubscribes / Emails Delivered) x 100

Unsubscribe rate measures the percentage of Klaviyo email recipients who opt out of future communications after receiving a message. It serves as a direct indicator of message relevance, frequency appropriateness, and the overall health of the relationship between your brand and its subscribers.

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Email Engagement Scoring

Email Marketing

Metric Definition

Email engagement scoring assigns a composite score to each Klaviyo subscriber based on their open, click, purchase, and recency patterns. It provides a unified view of subscriber engagement that goes beyond any single metric to identify highly engaged, at-risk, and disengaged subscribers.

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Email Engagement Cohort Analysis

Email Marketing

Metric Definition

Email engagement cohort analysis groups Klaviyo subscribers by their signup date or acquisition source and tracks how their engagement evolves over time. It reveals whether newer cohorts engage as well as older ones and how quickly engagement decays after initial subscription.

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