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Case Study — P.03

Decibel.by Medallia

A digital experience analytics platform — behavior tracking, session replays, heatmaps and an automated experience score — for teams optimizing how their site actually performs for real users.

Client

Decibel, by Medallia

Company

Acquired by Medallia in 2021

Category

Digital experience analytics

Platform

Web dashboard

Turning millions of clicks, scrolls and rage-taps into one score a team can act on.

Decibel is a digital experience analytics platform, acquired by Medallia in 2021. It watches how real visitors behave on a site — where they click, where they hesitate, where a form breaks — and rolls it all into a single Digital Experience Score (DXS), so teams can spot friction without digging through raw session data.

The dashboard had to hold dense, real-time data — revenue, page scores, session behavior — while staying scannable enough to check in thirty seconds.

Key Features

What Decibel does

Behavior Tracking

Watches user actions like mouse movements, clicks, scrolls and form errors.

Digital Experience Score

Uses smart technology to score the quality of a user's online visit automatically.

Session Replays

Lets companies watch video-like replays of user sessions to find bugs and design flaws.

Heatmaps

Shows hot spots where users click or get stuck on a page.

Decibel dashboard: Overview with total sessions, page views, revenue, Overall DXS score, engagement/frustration/technical/form/navigation scores, and pages with top revenue loss opportunity

Page-level Insight

PXS & metrics

Drilling into a single page breaks its Page Experience Score down into Engagement, Frustration, Form and Technical sub-scores, alongside behavioral metrics — pageviews, focus time, focus rate and duration — each compared against a segment.

Decibel Page Insights overview: PXS, Engagement, Frustration, Form and Technical scores with pageviews chart

Page Insights — Overview

Decibel Page Insights Metrics tab: pageviews, focus time, focus rate and duration over time

Page Insights — Metrics

Alerts

Catch issues before they spread

Custom alerts trigger on any metric threshold — bounce rate on a specific page and device segment, for example — with per-subscriber schedules and delivery across email, Slack and browser notifications.

Decibel alert setup screen: bounce rate condition, recent performance chart, and subscriber notification settings

Connect

Integrations & data streams

Decibel plugs into the rest of the stack: split-testing tools like Optimizely, Adobe Target and Google Optimize on one side, and scheduled data exports to cloud storage like Amazon S3 on the other — so DXS data feeds into whatever a team already uses.

Decibel Connect: split testing integrations including Adobe Target, Optimizely, Google Optimize and more

Split testing integrations

Decibel Connect: data streams configuration for exporting to Amazon S3 cloud storage

Data streams — cloud export

Focus areas

What the work prioritizes
01

One score (DXS) that summarizes experience quality without hiding what's driving it.

02

Dense analytics data kept scannable at dashboard level and explorable at page level.

03

A platform that plugs into the rest of the martech stack instead of replacing it.

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