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slug: fortschritt-und-meilensteine
title: "What do the milestones under “Data status” show?"
category: einstieg
locale: en
updated: 2026-10-12
keywords: ["progress","milestones","data status","getting started","first steps","status"]
questions: ["How can I tell the measurement is really working?","Where do I see how far along I am?","What are milestones?","Is there a progress bar?","Why is nothing under Reached yet?","Do I have to work through the milestones?","Where did the “Progress” page go?"]
url: https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/fortschritt-und-meilensteine
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# What do the milestones under “Data status” show?

**How can I tell the measurement is really working?**

The “Milestones” section under “Data status” in the portal lists what has already happened in your data (such as the first signal from your website, the first conversion, the first journey across several touchpoints, the first week without gaps) and what is still outstanding. There are no points, no rank and no comparison with other customers; every line is a state of your own data.

The milestones are in the portal under “Data status”, in the “Milestones” section. Until 5 October 2026 they were a page of their own called “Progress”; the old address still leads there. The section answers a question the reports themselves do not: is what I am seeing already the right picture, or is something still missing?

## What it lists

- Reached: what has happened, with the time it happened.
- Open: what happens by itself as soon as the matching signals arrive.

None of it needs to be triggered by hand. A milestone such as “journey across several touchpoints” appears when a conversion first has more than one preceding touchpoint. Until then every attribution model shows the same thing, and that is exactly what the open entry explains.

The check runs every quarter of an hour. A milestone therefore does not appear in the same second but at most fifteen minutes after the event. Measurement takes precedence: your events should not wait because progress is being calculated in the background.

## Why it is not a game

Points, ranks and streaks would reward a behaviour we do not recommend: looking in every day. Measurement does not improve by being watched more often. What the section is meant to give you is orientation, not attachment.

> **Note:** For some milestones we send a short email to the account’s admins. It can be switched off under “Settings → Notifications” without the milestones themselves disappearing.

## Also asked

- Where do I see how far along I am?
- What are milestones?
- Is there a progress bar?
- Why is nothing under Reached yet?
- Do I have to work through the milestones?
- Where did the “Progress” page go?

## Related

- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/einrichtung-ueberblick
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/wie-lange-bis-daten
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/kennzahlen-in-worten