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Spotting the vanity metric

Product Management · Metrics for PMs · easy · Company-context scenario · 5 min

A growth team celebrates that 'total registered users crossed 10 million.' Why might a PM push back on using this as the headline success metric?

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A. It's too small a number to matterB. It's identical to DAU, so it's redundantC. It's a cumulative vanity metric: it only goes up, ignores churn/inactivity, and doesn't reflect whether users get value nowD. Registered users can't be measured accurately

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Spotting the vanity metric

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