Metrics question

What are the metrics you will track if you own Google Docs?

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What this question tests

Tests building a metric tree for a collaborative productivity tool, covering individual usage, collaboration and business impact.

Clarify the goal: Docs succeeds when it becomes the default place people create and collaborate on documents, not just open occasionally.
Set the north star as weekly active documents with meaningful edits, not just document opens.
Build supporting metrics: collaboration rate, percent of documents edited by more than one person, comments and suggestions per document, and cross-device usage.
Add a guardrail on document load and sync latency, since performance issues directly threaten daily reliance on the tool.
Segment by use case, individual note-taking versus team collaboration, since these have very different healthy usage patterns.

Picks collaboration rate as a core metric, correctly identifying multi-user editing as Docs' real differentiator over a local word processor.
Names sync and load latency as a guardrail, since Docs' value proposition depends on reliability.
Separates individual and collaborative use cases instead of treating all document activity the same.

Measuring only document opens or creation, missing the collaboration signal that defines Docs' real value.
Ignoring performance metrics like latency, which directly threaten user trust in a real-time tool.

How would you measure the quality of collaboration, not just its frequency?
How would you weigh growth in new documents versus depth of use in existing ones?