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What should I track?

In order to understand what people do in your product you need to know:

  • Who your users are (e.g. their email address, role, etc.)

  • What they do (e.g. what actions they take)

If you don't have anything in place to track this information yet, don't worry. We'll walk you through how to set it up.

But before we do that I want to give you a couple of tips, so you can get the most out of June.

Start with 5 events

When you're just getting started with June, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the things you could track. So I recommend you limit yourself to just 5 events as a starting point.

If you're not sure what to track, here are some ideas:

  • Signed up

  • Used an important feature (e.g. created a project, sent a message)

  • Upgraded to a paid plan

  • Invited a team member

Make sure you keep your event names short and descriptive. What we like to use is the Object-Action convention:

1
Object + Action in the past tense
2


3
e.g. Project created, Message sent, Team member invited

If your event names are understandable without any context, you're doing it right.

Start with 5 traits

You can think of traits as a way to filter in and out the users and companies you care about. Our recommendation for traits is include information about:

  • Subscription status (e.g. free, trial, paid)

  • Role (e.g. admin, editor, viewer)

  • Job title (e.g. CEO, developer, designer)

  • Source of signup (e.g. organic, referral, paid)

  • Set up status (e.g. completed KYC, connected their CRM, or whatever is relevant to your product)

If you're a B2B company, you'll want most of your traits to be company-wide. If you're a B2C company, you'll want your traits to be user-specific.

Keep most of your tracking server-side

Adblockers and modern browsers are making it harder and harder to track users on the client-side. So if you want to make sure the data you're collecting is accurate, you'll want to do most of your tracking server-side.

From what we've seen frontend events make you lose between 15% and 30% of events. So if you're only tracking on the client-side, you're missing out on a lot of data, even if you're using a reverse proxy.

Next steps

Let's jump right in and get started with setting up June. Go to the quick start guide →