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Calculate click-through rate from impressions and clicks.
Calculate click-through rate from impressions and clicks.
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Click-through rate measures creative resonance: of everyone who saw the message, what fraction cared enough to act? Ads, email subject lines and organic listings each carry their own CTR norms, but everywhere it functions as the earliest quality signal in the funnel.
Low CTR predicts weak downstream performance and inflates CPC on auction platforms, where relevance earns discounts. High CTR with poor conversions suggests curiosity clicks rather than intent — the metric diagnoses, but never alone.
Calculate click-through rate from impressions and clicks. Formula: CTR = Clicks ÷ Impressions × 100. Example: 2,160 clicks from 120,000 impressions is a 1.8% CTR — eighteen clicks per thousand views.
Click-through rate measures creative resonance: of everyone who saw the message, what fraction cared enough to act? Ads, email subject lines and organic listings each carry their own CTR norms, but everywhere it functions as the earliest quality signal in the funnel.
Low CTR predicts weak downstream performance and inflates CPC on auction platforms, where relevance earns discounts. High CTR with poor conversions suggests curiosity clicks rather than intent — the metric diagnoses, but never alone.
2,160 clicks from 120,000 impressions is a 1.8% CTR — eighteen clicks per thousand views. Doubling CTR halves the impressions needed for the same traffic.
Formulas are standard public references (see our methodology). External standards are cited in the text where they apply.
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