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Call Queue Performance Report

Queue-based performance report: offered, answered and abandoned calls, answer rate, service level, waiting and talk times per queue

Written by Mustafa Eroğlu

The Call Queue Performance Report lets you analyze queue-based performance metrics for inbound calls in your contact center. With this report, you can monitor key performance indicators such as answer rate, service level, waiting times, and talk times for each queue in detail.

Menu path: Reporting > Call > Queue > Call Queue Performance

Purpose and features

Key features of the report:

  • Performance measurement based on the total number of calls, short calls, and answered calls

  • Tracking of core KPIs such as answer rate and service level

  • Monitoring of time-based metrics including waiting time, average waiting, talk time, and average talk time

  • Analysis of call losses through abandoned calls and local disconnects

  • Measurement of queue management efficiency via dequeue activity and answer speed

  • Tracking of outbound call performance with metrics such as talk time and answer rate

Benefits

  • Operational efficiency: Monitor queue-based workload and performance in real time.

  • Quality management: Measure key factors that impact customer satisfaction through service level and answer rate.

  • Resource optimization: Analyze waiting and talk times to optimize agent scheduling and utilization.

  • Loss reduction: Identify improvement opportunities by analyzing abandoned and short calls.

  • Outbound management: Measure outbound call performance in detail to develop effective dialing strategies.

Report columns

Column Name

Description and Calculation Method

Queue

Shows the name of the queue in which the calls took place.

Date

Shows the date and time interval to which the data belongs.

Calls (Offered)

The total number of calls that entered the queue.

Short Calls

Calls that ended while waiting in the queue in less than the defined threshold (e.g., 5 seconds).

Answered

The number of calls answered by an agent.

Answer Rate (AR)

Shows what portion of the total incoming calls was answered.

Answer Rate 2 (AR2)

The net answer rate calculated by excluding short calls.

Answered within SL

The number of calls answered within the defined target time (Service Level Threshold).

Service Level (SL)

The ratio of calls answered within the target time to the total number of calls.

Service Level 2

The service level calculated by excluding short calls.

AHT (Average Handling Time)

Shows how long a call lasts on average (talk time, hold time, etc.).

Abandoned

Calls that ended while waiting in the queue without being connected to an agent.

Waiting Time

The total waiting time of all calls that waited in the queue.

Average Waiting

The average time a call spent in the queue.

Talk Time

The total talk time of the calls answered in the queue.

Average Talk

The average talk time of a call.

Local Disconnect

The number of calls terminated by the agent (before the customer hung up).

Dequeue

Indicates whether the call overflowed or was transferred from one queue to another (1 or 0).

Answer Speed

Shows how quickly calls were answered on average.

Maximum Waiting

Shows the duration of the call that waited the longest in the queue during the relevant interval.

Generating the report

  1. Go to Reporting > Call > Queue > Call Queue Performance.

  1. Set the filtering options:

    • Queue

    • Queue Group

    • Start–End Date

    • Start–End Time

    • Time Interval

    • Cumulative

  1. Optionally, apply the Cumulative filter from the filter area.

  2. Click Apply to display the report.

  1. To clear the filter selections, click the Clear icon.

  1. To download the generated report, use the Export option.

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