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Retrieve email statistics by device type.

API Overview

Tracking your emails is an important part of being a good sender and learning about how your users interact with your email. This includes everything from basics of clicks and opens to looking at which browsers and mailbox providers your customers use.

We have broken up statistics in specific ways so that you can get at-a-glance data, as well as allowing you to get into the details of how your email is being used.

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Info

Category statistics are available for the previous thirteen months only.

Operation overview

GET/v3/devices/stats

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (for global users and subusers)

Base url: https://api.eu.sendgrid.com (for EU regional subusers)

This endpoint allows you to retrieve your email statistics segmented by the device type.

We only store up to 7 days of email activity in our database. By default, 500 items will be returned per request via the Advanced Stats API endpoints.

Available Device Types

Device	Description	Example
Desktop	Email software on desktop computer.	I.E., Outlook, Sparrow, or Apple Mail.
Webmail	A web-based email client.	I.E., Yahoo, Google, AOL, or Outlook.com.
Phone	A smart phone.	iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc.
Tablet	A tablet computer.	iPad, android based tablet, etc.
Other	An unrecognized device.

Advanced Stats provide a more in-depth view of your email statistics and the actions taken by your recipients. You can segment these statistics by geographic location, device type, client type, browser, and mailbox provider. For more information about statistics, please see our Statistics Overview.

Operation details

Authentication

API Key

Headers

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

Authorizationstringrequired

Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

on-behalf-ofstring

Optional

The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.

Query string

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

limitinteger

Optional

The number of results to return.

offsetinteger

Optional

The point in the list to begin retrieving results.

aggregated_byenum<string>

Optional

How to group the statistics. Must be either "day", "week", or "month".

Possible values:

dayweekmonth

start_datestringrequired

The starting date of the statistics to retrieve. Must follow format YYYY-MM-DD.

end_datestring

Optional

The end date of the statistics to retrieve. Defaults to today. Must follow format YYYY-MM-DD.

Responses

200

SchemaExample

Array of:

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

datestring

The date that the statistics were gathered.

statsarray[object]

The list of statistics.

Show child properties for stats

[
  {
    "date": "2015-10-11",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-12",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-13",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-14",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-15",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-16",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-17",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-18",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-19",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-20",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-21",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 1,
          "unique_opens": 1
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-22",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-23",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-24",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-25",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-26",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 2,
          "unique_opens": 2
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-27",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-28",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-29",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-30",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-10-31",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-01",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-02",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-03",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-04",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-05",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-06",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-07",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-08",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-09",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2015-11-10",
    "stats": [
      {
        "type": "device",
        "name": "Webmail",
        "metrics": {
          "opens": 0,
          "unique_opens": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

Retrieve email statistics by device type.

1const client = require("@sendgrid/client");
2client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
3
4const queryParams = {
5  start_date: "2010-01-22",
6};
7
8const request = {
9  url: `/v3/devices/stats`,
10  method: "GET",
11  qs: queryParams,
12};
13
14client
15  .request(request)
16  .then(([response, body]) => {
17    console.log(response.statusCode);
18    console.log(response.body);
19  })
20  .catch((error) => {
21    console.error(error);
22  });