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Aimee Spanier

Zendesk Documentation Team

Edited Jan 21, 2025


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Does the response time include the wait time or these are 2 separate metrics?

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Alessandro Battistini

Zendesk Employee

Hi Kevin,

The response time and wait time are separate metrics in Chat Analytics:

 

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Team, what's the formula for acceptance rate? how do we compute it and what's is basis for it to be below 100%. Also, what is acceptable acceptance rate in a nut shell?

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Hi Mark Oliver,

Formula is Accepted Chats over Total Number of Chat Assignments.
Example: 34/45*100=Chat Acceptance Rate

Acceptable acceptance rate depends on the company's metric but with is we are at 95%

Hope this helps!

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Can analytic support send email in hourly?

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Jason Schaeffer

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Qin,

Thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately the highest frequency for this feature that is possible at this time is daily. We do have alternatives that you may be interested in such as using Explore reporting if you do not already which you can also use to measure chat performance and depending on your plan level will refresh once and hour. I will link that information below for you:

Analyzing your Chat activity

I hope that helps!

Jason Schaeffer | Customer Advocate |

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Hi, can I ask what the formula is for the Chat Duration on the Individual Agent report please? I'm getting a different figure when using the default Average Chat Duration in Explore, which is: VALUE(Chat duration (sec))/60.


Thanks!

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Neil

Zendesk Customer Care

Hey Bex,

The formula for the Chat Duration (in Chat Analytics) is the same from what is being used in Explore. 

As mentioned on the Chat Analytics Glossary
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408893283098-Chat-Analytics-CSV-glossary

Average Chat Duration (sec) - The average length of time a chat session takes across all chats served by this agent. Chat duration is calculated by subtracting the timestamp of the first message from the timestamp of the last message.

Hope this helps to answer your concern.

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Is there a way to change the time frame of this report? eg, Monday - Sunday instead of the usual Sunday - Saturday that is sent.

Thanks

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Dane

Zendesk Engineering

Hi Rebecca,
 
Chat Analytics is a built-in report and will not allow any customization aside from the filters that are already present.
 
I hope this helps.
 
Cheers,
Dane

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Hi Zendesk,

 

How to split the (Average Handling Time) AHT from Chat to email, meaning if the conversation started as chat and then later converted into an email, what formula should I use in "calculation" and should it come in what dataset?

Even though if I have to get the number manually from a different dataset separately, I am okay, I would like to know that AHT formula, please?

Thank you in advance!

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Dane

Zendesk Engineering

Hi Nitesh,
 
That's an interesting way on how to review performance. However, Explore formulas are limited to just one dataset and it's not possible extract data from another dataset.
 
The only option is for you to create two separate queries and put it in a Dashboard side by side to compare the values. In your case, you can try to create a report for Chat Duration (min) and another one using Full Resolution Time (min)
 
Hope this helps.
 
Cheers,
Dane

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I may not be seeing this but is there a way to change the analytics to calculate first reply time for agents?

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Cheeny Aban

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Jess,

I understand your need for the functionality to change the analytics to calculate the first reply time, however, it is a default metric and not customizable. As a workaround, you can create your own calculated metrics or attribute for your desired use case. More information can be found here: Creating standard calculated metrics and attributes

I hope that helps!

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Hello

I'm getting different figures when comparing the Analytics dashboard and Zendesk Explore queries for Chats Served. Could you please help identify the cause? Thanks

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Hi Emanuel, 
 
You can find an explanation here: Why is there a discrepancy in Served chats between Analytics and Explore?

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Emanuel Maxim The article you were linked is pretty misleading. While that might be the problem, Chat analytics has been completely broken for quote some time now and Zendesk has stated they will not fix it, and we've been told to wait for it move to Explore if we want any correct metrics. The CSVs you download from the Analytics section are correct, but the information shown in the platform is generated incorrectly. 

This is a direct quote from Support on this issue from March 2021: 

The Chat Analytics dashboard is inaccurate and in being so, leads to a significant increase in work committed to derive information that is purportedly obtainable from said dashboards. For example, when troubleshooting routing issues, CSV data must be downloaded in multiple reports and numerous comparisons made to derive a result that should be readily available on the dashboard.

Our development team has confirmed the behavior encountered is known and expected based on how the Analytics dashboard tabulates the data. They also informed that improvements to the Analytics dashboard will not be made (for the remainder of 2021 at least) in favor of expanded and robust reporting options within Explore.

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@... I have read the article you suggested and did the adjustments. The numbers are still not matching. No one seems to be monitoring the comments in that article so I'm still left with no real answer to my problem. 

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Hi Emanuel Maxim, I have created a ticket for you so we can further investigate on the discrepancy. Thanks!

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It would be great if you would update these articles to reflect that none of these reports work or return accurate data. 

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Hi Team, Where can I download Chat Historical Agent Activity (with invisible, away, online data)

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Hi team! By definition, can you please help us with the difference between online, signed in and serving? Thank you! 

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Dainne Kiara Lucena-Laxamana

Zendesk Customer Care

HI Sheila Mae David ,

There should be a button in your Chat Dashboard>Analytics page that says “Download CSV”. It would include the following: Chat Analytics CSV glossary

 

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Dainne Kiara Lucena-Laxamana

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Faizal Nadong 

Online-Agent is available to take a chat
Signed-in-Agent is logged into chat but not Online. This could be “Away” or “Invisible”
Serving-Agent is already chatting with an end-user

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