B
Evidence Grade B
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not independently verified
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75%
75% -- percentage of real emails opening with no greeting for real email messages (2026)
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Evidence graded
Value
75%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
71,216
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Hacker Noon
Primary
Tier B
https://hackernoon.com/three-quarters-of-email-begins-with-nothing?source=rss ↗
Source Article
Three quarters of email begins with nothing
75% of real email opens with no greeting at all. We counted 71,216 messages: "Hi" dominates the rest — and "Dear" is now a phishing tell.
Original Research
Hacker Noon
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Methodology
Analysis of 71,216 email messages
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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real email messages: 75% percentage of real emails opening with no greeting. Source: Hacker Noon (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-opens-with-no-greeting-75
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-opens-with-no-greeting-75" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>75%</strong> -- percentage of real emails opening with no greeting for real email messages<br><small>Source: Hacker Noon (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-opens-with-no-greeting-75" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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