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How are Ratio Metrics Calculated?
How are Ratio Metrics Calculated?

Understand the calculations happening behind the conversion metrics in your OneUp

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Written by Margo Neary
Updated over a week ago

When viewing your ratio metrics in OneUp, you may be wondering how we've used individual ratios to calculate a team or company total ratio, especially if your users have data but the total ratio is reading 0:0. The article below explains how ratios are calculated from your performance data.

Individual Ratios

Individual ratios are calculated using the total performance for each metric, simplified to provide a X : 1 value.

For example, if a user sent 8 CVs and made 2 placements last week, this will be a ratio of 4 : 1.

This ratio says that, according to last week's performance, the user needs to send 4 CVs in order to make 1 placement.

I've recorded data, but my ratio is 0 : 0!

This means that one of the metrics included in the ratio does not have any data.

In the example above, 6 CVs have been sent, but no placements have been made. Without data recorded for both metrics, a ratio calculation cannot be performed and the value will show as 0 : 0.

Team/Company Total Ratios

Team or company ratios are calculated using the performance totals for each metric included in the ratio.


Total ratios are not calculated by adding up individual ratios


Looking at the example below, it's a common misconception to think that the total ratio should be calculated as 23.5 : 4 or 5.875 : 1.

However, total ratios must be calculated using the CVs Sent and Placement totals.


Top Tip! Add the individual metrics as columns next to your ratio in the Matrix. That way you can see the metric totals being used to calculate the ratio.


Looking at the total for CVs Sent and for Total Placements for all users, it's now clear that the team ratio is 38 : 6, which simplifies to 6.33 : 1.

This ratio says that the team needs to send 6.33 CVs to make 1 placement, according to last week's performance.


Troubleshooting

If you still require help on this topic, get in touch with our support team via the chat system or email support@oneupsales.co.uk.

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