Mixpanel's Users page allows you to filter users and gain a deeper understanding of how they interact with your website or application. By filtering your users into groups called cohorts, you can import these cohorts into other reports and perform analyses on those specific users.
Prerequisite: Guide to Mixpanel Basics
This guide assumes that you already have a foundational understanding of the Mixpanel data model. If you haven't already done so, please take time to review the Guide to Mixpanel Basics before proceeding with this guide.
Use Case
Mixpanel’s Users page aggregates and organizes a collection of user profiles. This facilitates a granular view into the behavior of individual users or groups of users. The Users page can be used to:
- Count users based on behavior.
- Explore their unique history.
- Update user profiles.
- Create cohorts of groups of users.
Users Page
You can select User Profiles or All Users in the Users page. If you select User Profiles, the page will only show users that have at least one user profile property set. If you select All Users, the page will show all users who have completed any event.
By clicking the name of a user in the User tables, you can explore that user's unique history by examining their user profile. Learn more about the Users Profiles here.
Cohorts
A cohort is a group of users who share a certain set of properties or have performed a particular combination or frequency of events. You can create a cohort on the Users page by generating filtering criteria. Once a cohort is created, you can save it and use it to group and filter data in other Mixpanel reports.
Learn more about Cohorts here.
Modifying Table Columns
You may wish to change what data is displayed in the Users table. You can do so by clicking on Edit Columns and selecting / deselecting the profile properties you wish to display on the User table
Total Users vs. Unique Users
It is important to consider how to aggregate and sum user actions. Mixpanel reports values according to events, but it is important to distinguish the total number of events versus the total number of users that perform an event.
A total count is the total amount of times an event is fired. For example, if one person fires an event 50 times, that will count as 50 when looking at Total.
When looking at unique values, Mixpanel counts how many distinct_ids have fired that event. In other words, this counts the number of users that perform an event.
It is possible to select count type in Insights reports. Funnels and Retention reports always count uniques.
Learn more about the differences in user counts here.
Further Learning
This article covers the basics of the Users report. For further reading, check out these related articles:
- Advanced Users Functionality - learn more advanced features available in the Users report
- User Profiles Overview - learn more about User Profiles
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