B
Evidence Grade B
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14%
14% -- click to open rate for retail (email marketing) (2026)
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14%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
SendGrid
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Tier B
https://maestra.io/blog/q-and-a/ctor-vs-ctr ↗
Source Article
Click-to-Open Rate vs Click-Through Rate: CTOR vs CTR Explained
Click-to-Open Rate vs Click-Through Rate: CTOR vs CTR Explained
Use CTR to assess your email campaign’s initial appeal and effectiveness, and use CTOR to the impact of your email content on an already interested audience.
CTR (Click-Through Rate) is the percentage of all delivered emails that receiv…
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SendGrid
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retail (email marketing): 14% click to open rate. Source: SendGrid (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-ctor-retail-14
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