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# Retention

Analyzing user retention in your app is crucial for understanding how well your app retains users over time.

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Here in the image, we can see:

* Pie chart for sessions during current period(28 Nov to 27 Dec). The selected timeframe here is 30 days.
* -33.33% shows the comparison of previous period from current one.
* You can see the new app sessions generated during the timeframe and retention session. Hover on the different colors and check the sessions generaed. For example, blue color has 2 sessions that means 2 sessions were retained for the selected timeframe.