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Shopify + Google Ads: New Benchmarks in Varos

Now you can get a more complete picture of your business performance and potential by benchmarking your Shopify and Google Ads KPIs against similar companies to yours.

Shopify

The Shopify ecosystem is littered with case studies and clickbait telling you what a “typical” return rate or repeat order rate looks like. 

These stats, however, are usually biased, based on a small sample size and always taken with a hefty grain of salt. 

With Varos’ new Shopify integration, you can anonymously and directly benchmark the following metrics with similar companies:

  • Cohort Analysis - Avg. # of Cumulative Orders Per Customer By Month after Purchase - This is the average cumulative number of purchases per customer over time. The data is displayed in cohorts, normalizing all customers from all time starting at month 1. This is the only metric in the dashboard that is for all time (date filters don’t apply). This only includes users who purchased more than 12 months ago, so you can see a full year of data. 
  • Abandoned checkout rate - The percent of users who started the checkout page, abandoned it, and did not return. This data only goes three months back. 
  • AOV - Average order value
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To illustrate, below is the Return Rate for 10 weeks from our community of users. The purple represents the brand with medium Return Rate, the red is the top 25% performing brand, and the green is the bottom 25% performing one. 

You can see that the top 25% of companies didn’t even have a spike in returns around Christmas, whereas the rest did

Refunds as a % of Orders in Varos' Shopify Dashboard


It takes just a couple clicks to connect your Shopify store to Varos, and you’ll be joining a group of DTC merchants anonymously crowdsourcing their KPIs with each other. 

All data is pulled directly from shopify, stripped of all identifying information, and shown in averages. 

Google Ads

Our integration with Google Ads came by popular demand from our customers already using Varos to benchmark their Facebook Ads data with market data. 

The Google integration lets you drill down in real-time into how you’re doing, both in absolute value and over time, compared to similar companies. 

Now, with both Google and Facebook benchmarks, you’re one step further to getting the full picture of how you’re doing compared to the market. 

If you’re not sure how much you should be allocating to each network (and also within the various products inside the Google Network such as Youtube) Varos can help you plan and forecast by showing you real-time average costs & metrics at a granular level.

You can benchmark the following metrics from Google in the dashboard: 

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You can also filter the market KPIs by:

  • Slot - the location of the ad on the page (for example, the top of Google search)
  • Network - The Google product where the ad is shown (for example, Youtube search)
  • Device - This one is self explanatory (for example, mobile phones)

As a taste, here you can see the fairly wide range in Google CPMs out of our community of users. The purple represents the brand with medium CPM, the red is the top 25% performing brand, and the green is the bottom 25% performing one. 

CPM benchmarks in Varos' Google Ads Dashboard


In the dashboard, you can filter this data to drill down at a more granular level. 

To start exploring the data, go to app.varos.com and we’ll get you set up.

About the Author

Yarden Shaked

Co-founder & CEO at Varos

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Chase Dimond | Email Marketing Nerd 📧
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Bottom line: I’m recommending Varos to you all because it’s FREE (for now) and it’s already added a ton of value for myself and my clients.Check it out 👇

Social Savannah
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I would definitely recommend checking out Varos. With Varos you can easily see how your peers are performing, for free. You get insights into not only TikTok Ads benchmarks, but also similar data for Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and more. #VarosAmbassador

jason wong
@eggrolI

Varos allows thousands merchants to upload anonymize marketing data across meta and google and aggregating it to show what the average is across different categories and ad spend

Cody Plofker
@codyplof

With varos.com, I can see exactly how our performance across channels stacks up against our competitors in our space.

Barry Hott ☄️
@binghott

Compare your ad performance to benchmarks of companies just like yours, anonymously.
I would've killed for this tool years ago and now it's here and oh it's free. Amazing.

Ron Shah
@obviceo

I've been seeing some content about @Varos_com so we decided to check it out.

One underrated feature of theirs is the Shopify Benchmarking, which is FREE btw.

Literally impossible to access this data anywhere else. Check out what we're seeing at @my_obvi 👇

William Harris
@wmharris101

I'm loving what @Varos_com is doing with providing much more relevant benchmarks for #ecommerce... especially since it shows that we are absolutely DOMINATING @Elumynt on #facebookads!

This is in the Baby and Children vertical.#fbads #ppcchat #retail #dtc

Chase Dimond | Email Marketing Nerd 📧
@ecomchasedimond

Bottom line: I’m recommending Varos to you all because it’s FREE (for now) and it’s already added a ton of value for myself and my clients.Check it out 👇

Social Savannah
@social_savannah

I would definitely recommend checking out Varos. With Varos you can easily see how your peers are performing, for free. You get insights into not only TikTok Ads benchmarks, but also similar data for Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and more. #VarosAmbassador

jason wong
@eggrolI

Varos allows thousands merchants to upload anonymize marketing data across meta and google and aggregating it to show what the average is across different categories and ad spend

Cody Plofker
@codyplof

With varos.com, I can see exactly how our performance across channels stacks up against our competitors in our space.

Barry Hott ☄️
@binghott

Compare your ad performance to benchmarks of companies just like yours, anonymously.
I would've killed for this tool years ago and now it's here and oh it's free. Amazing.

Ron Shah
@obviceo

I've been seeing some content about @Varos_com so we decided to check it out.

One underrated feature of theirs is the Shopify Benchmarking, which is FREE btw.

Literally impossible to access this data anywhere else. Check out what we're seeing at @my_obvi 👇

William Harris
@wmharris101

I'm loving what @Varos_com is doing with providing much more relevant benchmarks for #ecommerce... especially since it shows that we are absolutely DOMINATING @Elumynt on #facebookads!

This is in the Baby and Children vertical.#fbads #ppcchat #retail #dtc