Metric and Dimensions Dictionary

MediaMelon utilizes its proprietary SDK to meticulously collect comprehensive data, facilitating the creation of a robust set of metrics for video analytics.

Within our framework, a set of universally recognized metrics is consistently accessible across all dimensions, while certain metrics are exclusively relevant to specific dimensions. The tabular presentation encompasses both the metric values employed in the API and the user-friendly labels integrated into the SmartSight Graphical User Interface (GUI).

It is worth noting that the majority of these metrics remain accessible for all video sessions. Additionally, there exists a subset of metrics reserved exclusively for video sessions optimized for Quality Bitrate Resolution (QBR).

Metric NameDescription Metric (API)

Attempts

No of sessions created regardless of video playback

attempts

Startup Failures

Percentage of attempts where video playback did not start

failurerate

Video Durations

Total duration of video

totalduration

Total Startup Failures

No of sessions where video playback did not start

totalstartupfailure

Sessions

Number of ongoing playback sessions

concurviewavg

Unique Viewers

Number of unique viewers

uniqueviewercount

Plays

Number of attempts the first frame of the video has been seen by a user.

viewercount

Playtime

Total amount of time a video was played

playdur

Traffic

Data downloaded during playback

cbrsize

Average Plays / Viewer

Average number of video playback sessions per unique viewer

playperunique

Average Playtime / Viewer

Average time watched per unique viewer.

playtimeperunique

Errors

Total number of errors during video playback (Fatal & Non-Fatal.)

errors

Startup Delay

Average time from an attempt to play the video to the first frame of video being displayed

latency

Buffering Ratio

Percentage of video viewing time spent in re-buffering

bufferingratio

Connection Induced Rebuffering Ratio (CIRR)

Percentage of video viewing time spent in re-buffering due to connection related issues

sumbuffwaitcirr

Exit Before Video Start

Percentage of video playback sessions that were abandoned before first frame of the video would load

startupabandonmentrate

VDS Active

Total time where Audio for accessibility support was switched on.

isvdsactive

Subtitle Active

Total time where subtitles were switched on.

issubtitleactive

Q Metric

Viewer’s quality of experience, on a scale of 0-5, where 0 is lowest and 5 is highest

qualityofexperience

Signal Strength

Average WiFi signal strength

signalstrength

Wifi Data Rate

WiFi connection max data rate

wifidatarate

Wifi SSID

WiFi Service Set Identifier (SSID)

wifissid

Bitrate

Average bitrate of the last set of segments. Sent in every statistical payload ( every 30s )

bitrate

Bandwidth

Average bandwidth of the last set of segment. Sent in every statistical payload( every 30s )

bandwidth

MetricDescriptionMetric (API)

Ad Fill Rate

The percentage of ad impressions that are played back successfully

adfillrate

Ad Impressions

Number of ads watched by users

adimpression

Ad View Time

Total time in seconds where ads were viewed

adviewtime

Ad Play

Number af ads played by users

adplay

Ad Errors

Number of ad errors

aderror

Ad Blocks

Number of ads blocked

adblock

Ad Startup Delay

Delay is the time taken for the ad to start playing back

adlatency

Ad Buffering Ratio

Ad Buffering Ratio is the percentage of ad viewing time spent in buffering

adbufferingratio

Ad Abandons

EBAS is the percentage of ads where the user abandoned the session before the Ad could begin to play. This excludes errors that caused start-up failures

adstartupabandonmentrate

25% Complete

This indicates the percentage of ads played to 25% of the duration of the ad

adfirstquartilepct

50% Complete

This indicates the percentage of ads played to 50% of the duration of the ad

adsecondquartilepct

75% Complete

This indicates the percentage of ads played to 75% of the duration of the ad

adthirdquartilepct

100% Complete

This indicates the percentage of ads played to 100% of the duration of the ad

adcompletionrate

Ad Skipped

The percentage of ads that were skipped by the user.

adskippercentage

Click through ratio

The percentage of ads that were clicked by the user

adclickthroughrate


Additional Metrics & Dimensions that are calculated but not visible on Smartsights are as follows

Metric

SmartSight UI

Description

audienceengagement

Audience Engagement

Provides information about which portions of the video are being watched the most. The video length is divided into 10 buckets; the value in each bucket shows the number of sessions that played that percentage

bufferingbucket

Re-Buffering Ratio Distribution

Buffering ratio distribution. This is only available for completed and ended sessions

bufferingratio

Re-Buffering Ratio

Ratio of sumbuffwait to playdur

buffwait

Average Buffering

Average buffering duration

cbrbitrate

Bitrate

Average bitrate of sessions

concurviewavg

Sessions

Total number of sessions

concurviewpeak

Peak Concurrent Sessions

Maximum number of concurrent sessions

domainname

Domain

Web domain where the player is hosted; applicable only for web-based players

downshiftcount

Downshifts

Count of switches to a lower bitrate representation

engagementbuckettrend

Audience Abandonment Trend

audienceengagement normalized to the total number of sessions

latencybucket

Startup Delay Distribution

Latency Distribution of successful plays 10 - 0-1 sec

20 - 1-2 sec

30 - 2-3 sec

40 - 3-4 sec

50 - 4-5 sec

75 - 5-7.5 sec

100 - 7.5+ sec

mode

QBR Mode

Optimization mode for QBR-enabled players; one of QBRDisabled, QBRCostsave, QBRBitsave, QBRQuality

signalstrength

n/a

Average WiFi signal strength

sumbuffwait

Total Buffering

Total time (in seconds) spent re-buffering

startupabandonmentrate

EBVS

Percentage of exits before video start to attempts

uniqueviewercount

Unique Viewers

Count of unique viewers with active session

upshiftcount

Upshifts

Count of switches to a higher bitrate representation

adblockpercentage

Blocked Rate

Ratio of adblock to adrequest

adclick

Clicks

Number of times a viewer clicked an ad

adcomplete

Complete

Number of ads completed playing

adcompletionrate

Completion Rate

Ratio of adcomplete to adplay

adcreative

n/a

Advertisement MIME type

adduration

n/a

Average ad duration

adstartupabandonmentrate

Ad Abandons

Number of Ads abandoned

adfirstquartilepct

25% Complete

Ads which have completed 25% playback

adsecondquartilepct

50% Complete

Ads which have completed 50% playback

adthirdquartilepct

75% Complete

Ads which have completed 75% playback

adcompletionrate

100% Complete

Ads which have completed 100% playback

aderrorpercentage

n/a

Ratio of aderror to adrequest

adrequest

Ad Request

ount of requests made to the ad server

adskippercentage

Skipped (%)

Ratio of adskip to adplay

adviewtime

Average Ad View Time

Average time (in seconds) until an ad was closed, skipped or completed

Common Metrics (QBR-optimized video streams)

These metrics are available for QBR-enabled streams.

Metric

SmartSight UI

Description

cbrbitrate

Bitrate

Original (CBR) bitrate in Mbps

countqualimp

n/a

Count of instances where QBR selected a higher quality segment vs CBR

countqualred

n/a

Count of instances where QBR selected a lower quality segment vs CBR

pctbitssaved

Bits Saved

Percentage of bandwidth saved by QBR

qbrbitrate

QBR Bitrate

QBR bitrate in Mbps

qualcbr

Original Avg iMOS

Original (CBR) quality score (iMOS value)

qualperbitcbr

Original Quality Density

Original (CBR) quality density

qualperbitqbr

QBR Quality Density

QBR quality density

qualqbr

QBR iMOS

QBR quality score (iMOS value)

qbrsize

QBR Traffic

Actual data downloaded (in MB) with QBR optimization; equal to cbrsize when QBR not used

Dimension-specific Metrics (QBR-optimized video sessions)

These metrics are available for QBR-enabled streams.

Metric

Dimension

Description

profile

profile

Representation index of the video being played

res

res

Stream resolution of the video being played

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