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Weekly-Active-Users-Wau

Description

WAU measures how many unique users engage with your app or platform during a 7-day period.

Definition

WAU is a key engagement metric that tracks weekly user activity, providing insight into medium-term retention and overall user health.

Why Is Weekly-Active-Users-Wau Important for App Marketers?

WAU helps identify engagement patterns beyond daily use. It’s especially useful for non-daily use cases like shopping, finance, and education apps.

Where You Can Use Weekly-Active-Users-Wau

Product analytics, growth tracking, cohort analysis, engagement campaigns, churn prediction models.

What Are the Best Practices

  • Segment by user type, monitor trends vs DAU/MAU, track feature adoption week-to-week, benchmark against peers.
WAU captures the steady pulse of your app. High weekly activity signals long-term value and habit formation.