6 Super-simple Webinar Metrics to Measure your Success

What are webinar metrics?

Webinar metrics help to inform webinar organizers about the success of their webinars. Without webinar success metrics, it can be hard to tell if specific goals are being met. Such metrics can also help companies know when to pivot if their webinar strategy isn’t working. To compare the performance of your webinar strategy against other companies in the same industry, take a look at the webinar statistics we compiled.

What are the most important webinar metrics?

Some key webinar metrics to pay attention to for webinars are the registration rate, attendance rate, conversion rate, replay views, retention rate, engagement, and CTA click rate.

Webinar registration rate

This metrics tracks the number of people that have registered for a webinar. The best webinar softwares track this information with registration pages. Except in cases where attendees are manually invited without using a registration page, or registered through a registration page that is independent of a webinar software.

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The registration rate is how many people go from the webinar landing page and actually convert to a registration.

What is a good webinar registration rate?

On average, the conversion rate of a webinar registration page is of 30%. But it depends a lot on the origin of the traffic.

If there are not many visits to the landing page then the promotional materials need to be adjusted. If there are many page visits but not a lot of registrations it could be an issue with the registration form being too long. It could also indicate that the wrong audience has been targeted for the content.

Webinar attendance rate

An attendee is a registrant who has actually attended the webinar, wheter it's a live or an on-demand webinar.

Contrary to physical events where attendants are usually counted manually, webinar software automatically logs attendees as they enter the webinar room.

To measure how many registrants actually attend the webinar, one must calculate the attendance rate. It can be found by dividing the number of event attendees by the number of registrants and then multiplying by 100.

What is the average webinar registration rate?

Across industries, webinar attendance rates hover around 30%. However, keep in mind that this figurec changes widely from an industry to another. It also depends a lot on the use case, as well the webinar software you use.

Some webinar platforms have attendance rates as high as 70%, thanks to highly effective reminder emails. Also, webinar softwares that are hosted directly in a browser have higher attendance rates because users don’t have to download any apps or software. Some registrants sign up for webinars with no plans to attend them because they are interested in receiving the replay.

Low webinar attendance metrics can be caused by a failure to promote the webinar to the correct audience. It may also be caused by the day and time of the webinar. At Livestorm, we recommended to hold webinars midweek.

Webinar retention rate

Retention shows how long each audience member stayed during the webinar. Webinar retention metrics can show when attendees leave the webinar room, and hosts can use this information to improve their presentation and their next webinar.

If people drop off after the halfway point of the webinar, it could mean that the webinar is too long. When audience members stop watching after the introduction, it can be a sign that the event was promoted inaccurately.

Engagement metrics (polls, questions, chats)

Metrics that measure engagement include the number of polls, of questions, and of chat messages. Paying attention to these metrics can help when segmenting an audience.

To increase the amount of engagement during a webinar the hosts should let the audience know about these features. Providing incentives may increase the likelihood that audiences will respond to polls and questions. And hosting a Q&A session encourages viewers to discuss in the chat tab.

CTA click rate

On Livestorm, throughout the webinar, hosts have the option to send CTAs to their attendees. These CTAs could be anything from downloading a supporting document to a landing page to purchase a product. The Call to Action metric lets webinar organizers see who clicks on their CTAs.

Viewed replay

This metric tracks which registrants or attendees have viewed the webinar replay. Adding the number of attendees to the number of replay viewers can give a measurement of the global viewership of a webinar.