Recommend Glossary

The Recommend includes the following metrics and terms:

Metric/Term Name	Description	Formula
Attributable Sales	The value of products sold that were clicked on in the Algonomy placement.
Average Order Size from Recs	The average revenue from an order containing a recommended item.
Clicks on Recs	The total number of clicks on products in recommendation placements.
Items from Recs.	The number of units sold through recommendations. If a single SKU was sold multiple times, each unit sold contributes to this quantity. These products must have been clicked on in the Algonomy placement to count.
Orders from Recs	The total number of orders that contain at least one recommended item.
Overall Average Order Size	The total site sales over the total number of orders.	Overall site sales / overall orders
Overall Conversion Rate	Overall orders as a percentage of sessions.
Overall Items	The total product units sold sitewide.
Overall Orders	The distinct count of order numbers captured through the Purchase Complete page.
Overall Sales	The value of total sitewide sales.
Overall Units per Order	The overall units sold Sitewide per order.	Number of products / Number of orders
Page Rec Clickthru Rate	Clicks on recs as a percentage of page views. For example, a page contains two placements. Three customers viewed that page. Customer 1 did not click on any placement. Customer 2 clicked on the top placement. Customer 3 clicked on the bottom placement. The rec clickthru rate is 2/3, or 66.67%.
Page Views	The number of rendered pages containing Algonomy recommendations. One page view can contain multiple placement views. If a customer views a page that is instrumented, but no placements appear, this does not count as a page view.
Rec Clickthru Rate placement.	The number of clicks on recs as a percentage of page views. For example, a page contains two placements. Three customers viewed that page. Customer 1 did not click on any placement. Customer 2 clicked on the top placement. Customer 3 clicked on the bottom placement. The rec clickthru rate is 2/3, or 66.67%.
Rec Sales %	The sales from recs as a percentage of overall sales.
Revenue per Session	The overall sales per sessions.	Overall Sales / Sessions
Sessions	The number of unique user sessions that are identified by the retailer and passed to Algonomy through the JavaScript instrumentation or an API call.
Units Per Order from Recs	The average quantity of units sold in orders containing at least one recommended item. It counts both attributable and non-attributable products in the order.