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What is the difference between Click Date and Conversion Date attribution?
What is the difference between Click Date and Conversion Date attribution?

In this article you will learn when to use click date or conversion date.

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Written by Dennis
Updated over 3 months ago

Conversion Date

We usually look at the conversion date to understand the revenue made in the current Facebook view (7d in our example). The attribution window (28d), in that case, defines how long ago the click of the campaigns could have happened that we still give the attribution to a campaign in the current time frame.
→ Meaning the attribution window of the conversion tracking is facing the past.


How to use it

  • Day by Day optimization (Conversion Date, 1-14d Attribution Window, Last Click)

  • Customer Journey analysis (Conversion Date, 7-90d Attribution Window, Linear / U-Shape)

Conversion Date

Click Date

The Click Date attribution shows you from which click in the FB view (7d in our example) have purchases subsequently arisen within the here selected 28d attribution window.
→ Meaning the attribution window of the click tracking is facing the future.


When to use it

  • Intraday scaling at important sales events (Click Date + 1 day), you are just working with the clicks from this day and understand which campaigns are delivering immediate results

  • Sales Event analysis. Select the time frame from, e.g., Black Friday (Click Date + 14d + First click) and understand how much money was generated 14 days after BF through the campaigns from this weekend. You can optimize your strategy for the following sales events if you understand those metrics.

  • With Click Date, you get your spend from a defined timeframe aligned with the corresponding conversion value

Impression Date
  • Every time you switch between the attribution settings in Chrome, you request a new dataset from our Server. Depending on the data range and your ad spend, that can take up to a minute. Usually, it's done in less than a few seconds and in small accounts in less than a second.

  • We load all the data in our cache; after its loaded, you can jump between campaigns, adset, and ads without time delays

  • If you change the time range in Facebook, Tracify is automatically loading the new data from the Server and will present it to you as soon as it is updated

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