What are Calculated Metrics?
Calculated Metrics let you build your own custom metrics by combining existing ones with a formula. For example, you could create a "Revenue per Click" metric by dividing revenue by clicks, or a "Blended CPA" that combines data across channels.
Once created, your calculated metrics appear alongside standard metrics in dashboards, reports, and data tables.
Creating a calculated metric
Go to Settings → Calculated Metrics and click Create.
1. Name and description
Give it a clear name (e.g. "Revenue per Click" or "Blended ROAS"). Add an optional description so your team knows what it measures.
2. Choose a data context
Select where this metric will be used:
- Ad Performance — Paid advertising metrics (impressions, clicks, cost, conversions, etc.)
- Website Analytics — GA4 metrics (sessions, users, page views, bounce rate, etc.)
- E-commerce — Transaction and revenue metrics
- Social Media — Organic social metrics (engagement, followers, shares, etc.)
- Search Term Report — Paid search keyword metrics
- Ad Performance + E-commerce — Combine ad metrics with e-commerce metrics (for custom dashboards)
3. Build the formula
Use the metric dropdown to insert metrics, and combine them with:
- + − × ÷ — Basic math
- ( ) — Group calculations
- Numbers — Type in constants (e.g. multiply by 100 for percentages)
For example: Revenue / Clicks or (Conversions / Sessions) * 100
4. Set the unit
Choose how the result should be displayed: as a number, percentage, or currency amount.
Where calculated metrics appear
Your custom metrics show up:
- As columns in data tables (Ad Performance, Website Analytics, etc.)
- As metric options in custom dashboard widgets
- As selectable metrics when creating KPIs
- In reports
Good to know
- Metric names must be unique within each data context
- Website Analytics formulas can use up to 10 different metrics
- Some metrics have restrictions — for example, "Followers" in Social Media can't be combined with other metrics because it represents a total count, not a daily value
- The "Ad Performance + E-commerce" context requires at least one metric from each side
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