One of our values at Kit is to work in public. We strive for transparency, which is why we share information that is typically kept private, such as our finances.
One commonly asked question by creators looking for a new email marketing platform is, “How is your email deliverability?”
Here is our monthly deliverability report to answer that question:
If you missed previous Deliverability reports, you can check them out below:
In February, Kit sent over 880 million messages.
When messages are sent, they can be delivered or they can bounce. For more details on how email deliverability operates, check out our blog post here. But for a little TLDR- The more messages delivered, the better!
It is inevitable for some messages to bounce due to invalid addresses, full mailboxes, etc., but a good delivery rate indicates healthy deliverability for Kit. We consider a system-wide delivery rate of 98% and above to be very healthy.
In February, our system-wide delivery rate was 98.95%
This high delivery rate indicates a healthy reputation for Kit, which gives our customers a solid foundation for their email deliverability. To get even more detailed about how well we’re performing, it helps to filter down by mailbox provider.
Here are the top 5 domains Kit sends to in terms of volume:
1. Gmail.com
Volume: 485 million messages
Delivery rate: 99.54%
2. Yahoo.com
Volume: 94 million messages
Delivery rate: 99.82%
3. Hotmail.com
Volume: 78 million messages
Delivery rate: 99.86%
4. AOL.com
Volume: 22 million messages
Delivery rate: 99.9%
5. Outlook.com
Volume: 9 million messages
Delivery rate: 99.86%
The average open rate of all emails sent through Kit was 29%.
Senders often ask how their open rates stack up to others. Truth is, open rates can vary greatly depending on your industry and audience type (B2B vs. freemail addresses, for example). However, here’s a general scale you can use to measure your performance:
I talk more about open rates and why they aren’t always reliable in this article.
Our system-wide complaint rate remained 10x lower than industry standard
A complaint is when a subscriber marks a message as spam. An elevated complaint rate is a signal that the sender’s quality of mail isn’t good. We have a team dedicated to ensuring that the mail sent from Kit is wanted by the recipients.
In the email industry, a complaint rate less than 0.1% is seen as healthy. Kit’s complaint rate in February was 0.01%, which speaks to the high quality of mail sent by our customers and the healthy reputation of our infrastructure.
Deliverability Tip of the Month:
The biggest factor that influences your deliverability is how your subscribers engage with your messages. For a high reputation and healthy deliverability, you need to regularly remove unengaged subscribers from your list. You can easily do this in Kit by removing your Cold Subscribers.
For more information on how to prune Cold Subscribers from your list, check out this Knowledge Base article.
Industry news and Kit updates
How to measure the impact of deliverability issues
In February, I contributed to Kickbox’s blog series “Email Deliverability Unfiltered”. You can check out the post here.
Meet our Deliverability Specialist: Melissa Lambert
We are so excited to have Melissa as a Deliverability Specialist on our Support Team! Melissa has been a Product Specialist at Kit since September 2018. While she has experience helping our customers with a variety of topics, she always found deliverability to be most interesting. She loves digging in to complex deliverability issues and helping educate customers on a topic that can sometimes feel overwhelming. Outside of work, Melissa loves to run outdoors and travel any opportunity she can get.
