Not ecj but you post got me curious. I am Bronze, zRank of 5 (6 is highest it's ever gone) and have 491 public products. I just checked by sorting by Most Sold and counting until I hit the first zero. 124 things sold out of 491, so 25%. Not great but actually more than I was expecting. A month or two ago I deleted about 30 products in one session and it had no effect on my rank. I rarely do any promoting so my linkovers are abysmal and the last time I earned a referral that wasn't from me buying my own product was all the way back in June of 2021. I have no way of knowing for sure but I think linkovers and not just actual referrals are a factor as they show you are trying & driving traffic to the site even if those visitors don't actually buy anything (and maybe they are buying, we wouldn't know unless our cookie stuck and thus showed up as a referral).
I have an old now-defunct store that I set to Private but left the handful of products in it Public (I had some twisted reasoning for that LOL). So 8 public products, all of which had sold, that's a 100% rate. But its zRank is only 3 because I never did the store completion steps, it's only at 60%. Would be interesting to see what the zRank would jump to if I completed it but with only 8 products I couldn't do that even if I wanted to.
ecj must be selling well, possibly much more than me, but I associated that she should have a much better ratio because even with better sales zrank=9 is very different from zrank=6
Agreed. 9 is astounding. She said her sales have been normal so the drop to 7 IMO has to be attributed then mostly to the lack of referrals since Jan. It's possible she added enough new products since she was last ranked to skew her ratio which also contributed to the drop, but 7 is still excellent. Given the "data" shared by the three of us now to compare, I'd say referrals and consistent sales & growth factor much heavier than the ratio. None of us are getting referrals so things are even there. And despite my 25% ratio I have the lowest rank at 5, which I attribute to having the least consistent sales.
Ah, I rarely look at that page so just checked it out. It shows 160 for me but I can see that includes both Hidden and Deleted products. Going to my backend to show only Hidden products, I have 21 that have sold. 160 - 21 = 139.
139 - 124 (how many public products I counted earlier today) would leave 15 products that I deleted even though they sold. I don't know if that's right. but I'm not worried about it. The zRank page says Hidden products don't factor in to it, and including Hidden & Deleted products in figuring your ratio would skew the numbers. In my case it would go from 25% to 33%. But if you're a newer store or just confident you haven't Hidden and/or deleted anything that's sold, then looking at that number is way easier then counting from the backend.
