Loyalty metrics can be used to better understand visitor habits and preferences, evaluate the health of businesses, and help market the merits of specific neighborhoods. Analyze visit frequency to see how many times people visit a district, neighborhood, or specific public places such as parks, hubs, and tourist centers.

You’ll be able to answer these questions after reading this article:

1. How can you use traffic metrics to compare locations’ visit frequency?
2. How can you differentiate between loyal and casual visitors?
3. How can you see how many unique visitors visited a location?

Get started with the following steps:

Step 1: Review Placer Traffic Metrics to compare visit frequency

Open the Property report page for your POIs^{Points (Locations) of Interest.} (add multiple locations by clicking on the plus icon and clicking Go) and choose your preferred time period. By comparing Visit Frequency^{The number of total visits by unique visitors.} (Metrics), you can see that these 2 attractions in nearby markets have different metrics.

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Step 2: Review Loyalty data for specific POIs

a. From the Property report page, navigate to the Loyalty section in the left sidebar. 

b. Here, you can view the breakdown between loyal and casual visitors. You determine what a loyal visitor is by setting the minimum number of visits each visitor has to make in your chosen time period to your location to be considered loyal. For example, if you set your minimum number of visits to be 4, the visitors who have visited your location 4 or more times will be counted as loyal visitors. All other visitors will be counted as casual visitors. You can view the data with different filters and easily switch between the Loyal and Loyal vs. Casual visualizations by using the Hide Casual toggle.

c. In the second section, Visits Frequency, each bin in the chart shows the estimated number of unique visitors that visited a POI a certain number of times during your chosen time period.

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