metric
n. countablen. a standard way to measure or judge how well something is doing. You use this to track progress or compare different things using numbers.
n. a standard of measurement used to assess performance, progress, or quality. Often used in business and technical contexts to quantify abstract goals.
The most important metric for our website is daily visitors.
The marketing team analyzed every metric from the social media campaign to determine which platform provided the best return on investment.
While profit remains a primary metric for success, modern corporations are increasingly pressured to report on environmental and social metrics to satisfy a broader range of stakeholders.
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
Commonly used in the plural form when referring to a set of different measurements.