How to Test Email Delivery Duration
Every email marketer is interested in delivering their email messages to the recipient’s Inbox. That’s why G-Lock EasyMail7 has the capability to test the email placement and spam filtering before sending the email campaign. There are some email monitoring services that also allow to run email delivery tests, but they charge a fortune for it.
The email placement test reports whether the email was delivered to the Inbox or spam folder at different ISPs or whether it was filtered and blocked even before reaching the recipient’s mailbox.
Testing where the message lands is a great opportunity to discover and fix deliverability issues on a proactive basis but it does not give the full picture of the deliverability effectiveness.
Knowing how much time the email takes to reach the recipient is also important because different email providers handle delivery differently. Some email providers will delay the delivery of emails when the volume passes a certain threshold.
This negatively affects the delivery of time sensitive emails such as promotional campaigns, important transaction emails, fix releases etc. It may happen that only a portion of your contact list will receive the time limited promotion or important update on time. The rest of the list will receive the email too late and the effectiveness of the promotion will be lost.
The delivery duration tracking helps email marketers determine if there is an issue with a particular ISP throttling and schedule the email campaign at the right time to get it delivered without a delay.
This is why we feel the delivery duration tracking does matter and we have included this metric into G-Lock Apps Inbox placement and spam filtering test. Below is a screenshot showing the data provided.
Next time you test your email placement before launching your email campaign, don’t forget to look at the delivery duration.
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