Understanding the information section of a profile

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Learn about the information section of a profile in Klaviyo. 

The Information section of a Klaviyo profile contains the following information:

• The Klaviyo-assigned First Active and Last Active dates
• How they found you
• Custom properties
• The date and time the profile was created
• The date and time the profile was updated

In this article, you will learn more about each subsection within the Information section of a profile.

First active and last active

The First Active property is automatically created for each contact in Klaviyo the first time that they proactively engage with your account. The date recorded represents the first time the contact was "active" —  i.e. opened or clicked an email, visited your website, made a purchase, etc.

A few things to note:

• If someone is manually uploaded to a list, this will not set the First Active date. Even if this person receives an email, this property will not be created. Only if this person engages with an email, or takes an action that is tracked by Klaviyo, will this property be set.
• If someone first engaged with your organization before you created your Klaviyo account, but Klaviyo was able to sync historical activity through an integration (with your previous ESP, for example), we will set the First Active date to align with the contact's earliest recorded activity. This means it's possible for someone's First Active date to be before their Profile Created date.

The Last Active date represents the last timestamped activity related to a profile. This includes (but is not limited to) events, scheduled messages, and profile updates made by certain integrations.

How they found you

Klaviyo will only populate a profile with How They Found You information if web tracking has been set up on your website. 

The Source value represents how the contact ended up on your website when Klaviyo's web tracking JavaScript first saw them. The possible values are:

• (direct)
  The person either entered your site URL directly in their browser or, more likely, we don't know where the person came from
• (referral)
  The person came from another website by clicking a link on that site
• (organic)
  The person either came to your site from a search engine or you'll see a custom value here if there was a "utm_campaign" set in the URL the person landed on

In the example above, this particular contact was referred from Google — meaning they landed on the website after clicking through a Google search.

Campaign, Medium, Content, and Term fields will be populated appropriately if an individual ended up on your website after clicking through a campaign where Google Analytics tracking was added to links within the email:

• Campaign, utm_campaign
  Name of campaign
• Medium, utm_medium
  The channel through which you sent this content; i.e., email or SMS
• Term, utm_term
  This is an optional UTM parameter that marketers can set to track paid search terms
• Content, utm_content
  This is an optional UTM parameter that marketers can set to differentiate between ads

If you use Klaviyo to automatically add Google Analytics tracking to links within a campaign or flow email and someone clicks through one of these emails and lands on your website for the first time, we will track Source, Campaign, and Medium:

• utm_source
  Name of the list or segment the campaign was sent to
• utm_medium
  The channel through which you sent the campaign or flow (e.g., email)
• utm_campaign
  The campaign name (Campaign ID)

The First Page property will contain the URL of the first page the contact visited after navigating to your website.

Profile updated and profile created

The Profile Created date will represent the date a profile was created. As explained above, this date may or may not align with the First Active date:

• If someone engages with your organization for the very first time and this activity is synced in real-time to Klaviyo, the First Active and Profile Created dates will be identical.
• If someone engages with your organization for the first time before you start using Klaviyo, but when you set up your Klaviyo account you sync or import historic data, we will back-date a contact's First Active date if relevant historic data is available. The Profile Created date, however, will still reflect the date this person's profile was created by Klaviyo.
• If someone is imported into Klaviyo, but we have no activity tracked for them, there will be a Profile Created date, but no First Active date.

The Profile Updated date and time indicates the last time the profile itself was updated, and the Last Active date and time matches the time of the latest event on the profile.

Additional resources

• Guide to properties
• Understanding who is in your account
• Delete, merge, and export a profile