User ManualStickiness

Stickiness

The Stickiness insight measures how often the same users come back — by counting, for each user, how many distinct days they fired the target event over the date range.

Open Stickiness in the sidebar (/stickiness).

What you’ll see

Two views of the same distribution:

  • Histogram — exact user count per “times performed” bucket. The first bar is users who did the event on exactly 1 day, the second on exactly 2 days, and so on.
  • Cumulative line — overlaid on the histogram, showing users who did the event on at least N days. Useful for “what fraction of users came back at least 3 times?”.

Below the chart, a table repeats the same data as numbers — convenient for screenshotting into a report.

Filters

FieldNotes
Date rangeThe window over which distinct days are counted.
Target eventThe event you want to measure (e.g. app_opened, dashboard_viewed).

Reading the chart

A right-skewed distribution (most users on the left, few on the right) is typical for top-of-funnel events like signup or first-view. A bimodal distribution — a bump near 1 and another near N (the max possible) — is the classic “tried it once or used it every day” pattern, signalling product–market fit asymmetry.

For SaaS products, the percentage of users with 5+ distinct days in a 30-day window is a useful “power user” cohort threshold. Use it to seed a Cohort for outreach.

Limits & gotchas

  • Counts distinct days, not distinct sessions or fires. A user who fires the event 50 times in one day counts as 1 day.
  • Time zones — days are bucketed by your workspace timezone, set under Settings.
  • Lifecycle — new/returning/resurrected/dormant breakdown
  • Retention — return-rate cohort grid