Weekly Active Users (WAU)
What Are Weekly Active Users? WAU, which stands for weekly active users, refers to a type of measure employed in product diagnostics that indicates the quantity of different customers that use a digital media such as a platform or a mobile application within one week. The measurement provides companies with a possibility to determine whether the customers use the offered product on a regular basis instead of just downloading the application or creating an account. WAU is different from the measurements showing the total number of sessions or visits as it measures how many different clients have shown that they have performed the action. For example, even if the user runs the application ten times a week, he will still be regarded as one user for weekly active users purposes. In order to define the action, it is necessary to take into account the type of a mobile application used. For instance, when it comes to a gaming app, the action could be playing a game or finishi...