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Ask HN: What SaaS metrics turned out to be completely useless?
15 points by tech_voyager 596 days ago
3 comments

Monthly active users. It signaled growth and activity and real interest from living people. Now it includes scrapers, good bots and bad bots. A number so inflated, it might as well be completely made up.
Vanity metrics like website visits are those shiny cards; they look cool but don't really help you win the game!
Any metric without segmentation might fall in this category. Conversion rate

Win rate

Mql to sql rate

Total visitors