--- title: "Volume vs. quality: what are you really optimizing for?" description: Optimizing for install volume hides the real cost of low quality traffic. 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Yet many teams keep chasing volume because volume is visible. It shows up in the CPI. It shows up in the weekly report.   Quality does not show up on day one. It shows up in day 7 retention. It shows up in day 30 revenue. When the only goal is scale, it becomes easy to accept traffic that never converts into real value for the app. The numbers look good on the surface, but the users behind them were never going to stay.   A thousand users with real intent are worth more than ten thousand who never come back. In mobile, user quality is measured post install, not at the moment of the click. 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