The Padel School
November 2025
Reporting period: 1 Nov 2025 to 30 Nov 2025  |  Comparison: October 2025
Monthly Analytics Report
Report Sections
Section 01
Executive Summary
High-level snapshot of how the site performed in November versus October 2025
Total Sessions
9,533
▲ +1.6%vs October (9,387)
Visits to the site this month
Total Users
5,924
▲ +0.2%vs October (5,912)
Unique individuals who visited
New Users
5,034
▼ 0.0%vs October (5,034)
First-time visitors acquired
Trial Starts
95
▲ +10.5%vs October (86)
Completed purchase events
ScoreApp Leads
117
▲ +1.7%vs October (115)
Quiz completions generating leads
Top Traffic Channel
Organic Search
3,845 sessions · 40.3% of total
Also top channel for trial starts (42)
Key takeaway: November was TPS's Black Friday month, with 75 email campaigns sent and email traffic reaching 1,006 sessions, the highest email volume in the dataset. Trial starts grew +10.5% to 95, the strongest month recorded in this reporting period. Overall sessions were broadly flat (+1.6%) as paid social investment dropped sharply while organic and email channels compensated. The business performed strongly through the promotional period.
Black Friday effect: The top 10 email sends in November are dominated by Black Friday campaign messages, with the main launch email driving 128 sessions alone. New checkout pages (/checkout/tps-black-friday-offer, /checkout/competitor-bundle-social) appeared in the top landing pages, confirming active promotional campaigns were live throughout the month.

Section 02
Traffic Overview
Where visitors came from in November, compared to October, broken down by channel and top countries
Sessions by Channel
November 2025   October 2025
Organic Search
3,845
3,817
Direct
2,345
2,433
Email
1,006
775
Organic Video
563
497
Organic Social
560
337
Referral
477
419
Paid Social
425
754
Unassigned
309
331
Channel Breakdown
ChannelSessionsvs Oct
Organic Search3,845+0.7%
Direct2,345-3.6%
Email1,006+29.8%
Organic Video563+13.3%
Organic Social560+66.2%
Referral477+13.8%
Paid Social425-43.6%
Unassigned309-6.6%
Email surged +29.8% to 1,006 sessions, driven entirely by Black Friday campaigns. 75 email sends went out in November, by far the heaviest send volume in the dataset. The Black Friday launch email alone drove 128 sessions. Email is clearly functioning as an active commercial channel during promotional periods rather than just a nurture tool.
Paid Social collapsed -43.6% from 754 to 425 sessions. This was the second largest channel in October but dropped to seventh in November. This appears to be a deliberate budget decision, redirecting spend towards the Black Friday email campaign rather than maintaining paid social. Worth confirming with Sandy and Tom.
Organic Social jumped +66.2% from 337 to 560 sessions, the strongest growth of any channel this month. This reflects increased social activity around Black Friday content and promotions. The channel is demonstrating real commercial potential at scale alongside the email push.
Organic Search remained essentially flat at 3,845 sessions (+0.7% vs October), maintaining its position as the dominant traffic source regardless of promotional activity. This confirms a stable, large organic search foundation that does not fluctuate with campaign periods.
Top 10 Countries - Sessions and Users
#CountryNov SessionsNov UsersOct Sessionsvs OctShare
1🇬🇧 United Kingdom3,2811,8033,097+5.9%
34.4%
2🇿🇦 South Africa693539747-7.2%
7.3%
3🇳🇱 Netherlands617353562+9.8%
6.5%
4🇮🇩 Indonesia514288507+1.4%
5.4%
5🇺🇸 United States410312492-16.7%
4.3%
6🇪🇸 Spain349179309+12.9%
3.7%
7🇧🇪 Belgium241164247-2.4%
2.5%
8🇵🇱 Poland21485n/aNEW
2.2%
9🇵🇹 Portugal201118232-13.4%
2.1%
10🇩🇪 Germany199132177+12.4%
2.1%
USA down -16.7% from 492 to 410 sessions, the sharpest country decline in November. The US has historically been a top 5 market for TPS and this drop is worth monitoring. Whether it reflects reduced paid social activity (which would have driven US traffic) or a broader drop in US discovery of TPS content is worth investigating.
Poland entered the top 10 for the first time this month at position 8 with 214 sessions and 4 trial starts. Indonesia continues to punch well above its traffic weight with 9 trial starts from 514 sessions, a conversion rate of 1.75%, the highest of any major market this month.

Section 03
Trial Starts Analysis
Which channels are driving trial starts, shown across 1 month, 3 months and 6 months. Uses session-based attribution: trial starts credited to the channel active when the checkout was completed.
November 2025
vs October 2025 (86 trial starts)
95
Total Trial Starts  ▲ +10.5% vs October
Last 3 Months
Sep to Nov 2025 vs Jun to Aug 2025 (106)
279
Total Trial Starts  ▲ +163.2% vs prior period
Last 6 Months
Jun to Nov 2025 vs Dec 2024 to May 2025
385
Total Trial Starts  ⚠ Prior period data unreliable
95 trial starts in November is the strongest single month in the reporting dataset. Organic Search (42) and Direct (37) continue to be the dominant converting channels, consistent with what was seen in April 2026. Black Friday email activity drove 3 same-session trial starts despite the volume of promotional traffic sent.
The 3-month picture is exceptional: Sep to Nov 2025 generated 279 trial starts versus just 106 in Jun to Aug 2025, a +163.2% increase. This reflects a step-change in commercial performance across Q3 to Q4, likely driven by increased content output, email list growth and the Black Friday period.
6-month comparison is unreliable. The prior period (Dec 2024 to May 2025) shows 1,539 total purchases but 729 of these (47%) are attributed to "Unassigned" channel, indicating a significant tracking issue in that period. The current 6-month figure of 385 is accurate; the prior figure is not comparable.
Trial Starts by Country - November 2025
CountryTrial StartsShare
🇬🇧 United Kingdom26
27.4%
🇮🇩 Indonesia9
9.5%
🇳🇱 Netherlands7
7.4%
🇵🇹 Portugal5
5.3%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia5
5.3%
🇵🇱 Poland4
4.2%
🇺🇸 United States4
4.2%
🇪🇸 Spain3
3.2%
+22 more countries32
72.6% of trial starts are international in November. 31 countries generated at least one trial start. Indonesia's 9 trial starts from 514 sessions is a standout conversion rate of 1.75%, the best of any major market. Saudi Arabia generating 5 trial starts is notable given its relatively small traffic volume of 88 sessions.
How Attribution is Measured

The same 95 trial starts look different depending on which question you ask:

Last-Touch: Channel active when they started their trial
Organic Search42
Direct37
Organic Social4
Organic Video4
Email3
Paid Social3
Unassigned2
First-Touch: Channel that originally acquired the buyer
Organic Search38
Direct36
Organic Video7
Email4
Organic Social4
Paid Social3
Email drove 1,006 sessions in November but only 3 same-session trial starts. The Black Friday campaigns clearly drove high engagement and browse activity, with buyers returning later via Direct or Search to complete their trial start. Email's influence on November's 95 trial starts is likely far greater than 3 but unmeasurable in last-click attribution. Check GA4 Conversion Paths for the full picture.

Section 04
UTM & Campaign Performance
Traffic from tracked campaigns. November was the highest email send volume month in the dataset, dominated by Black Friday campaigns.
📧 Email Campaigns (ActiveCampaign)
November 2025 - 1,006 total sessions across 75 email sends
#Email SubjectSessions
1Black Friday is LIVE - Our biggest deal EVER128
23 Tactical Tips Every Padel Player Should Know81
3Hadn't been asked this question in a long time75
4Most players train the wrong way (here's the fix)74
5Only 18 Hours Left54
6Players are jumping on this Black Friday deal48
7Be prepared for padel this winter39
8Members Only: Your Black Friday Deals Are Live32
9Why So Many Padel Injuries31
10[Last 24 Hours] Black Friday IS your moment31
+ 65 more sends463
Black Friday drove 8 of the top 10 emails by sessions in November. The launch email, urgency follow-ups ("Only 18 Hours Left", "Last 24 Hours") and social proof email ("Players are jumping on this") all performed strongly. The content emails ("3 Tactical Tips", "Hadn't been asked this question") show that non-promotional sends still drove significant traffic alongside the campaign.
75 email sends is a record for this dataset. Despite the volume, only 3 same-session trial starts were attributed to email. Black Friday buyers are browsing from email and returning to purchase later, consistent with the attribution pattern seen across all months. The real question is how many of November's 95 trial starts were influenced by email at some point in the journey.
▶ YouTube Campaigns
November 2025 - 563 sessions (223 untagged referral, 340 UTM-tagged)
#Video / CampaignSessions
-youtube.com / referral (untagged)223
1Bio link (TPS Access Links)155
2Community post: Slinger Machine Course20
3Community post: 14-Day Fast Track18
4The Power of Playing Slow in Padel18
5The Overhead Decision That Defines Your Game8
6Community post: Membership7
73 Tactical Mistakes Costing You Matches7
+ more videos and posts107
The YouTube bio link drove 155 sessions, the single largest tagged YouTube source. This confirms that the channel bio is a meaningful traffic driver and should always have a current, optimised link. Community posts are also performing well at 45 combined sessions across 3 posts in November.
39.6% of YouTube traffic is still untagged (223 of 563 sessions). Significantly improved versus earlier months where 67% was untagged, suggesting more consistent UTM tagging of video descriptions. Maintaining this discipline will continue to improve channel attribution visibility month on month.

Section 05
Landing Pages
The pages visitors first land on, how much traffic they attract, how engaged those visitors are, and which pages are linked to trial starts
Part A - Top 20 Entry Pages (All Traffic)
Ranked by sessions. Engagement Rate = % of sessions lasting 10+ seconds or viewing 2+ pages.
#Landing PageSessionsEngagement RateBounce RateAvg Session Duration
1/1,76570.4%29.6%5:42
2/feed58281.1%18.9%14:23
3(not set)5251.1%98.9%0:03
4/links41566.0%34.0%1:36
5/drill-book31744.8%55.2%2:13
6/checkout/tps-black-friday-offer26861.9%38.1%3:47
7/users/sign_in25366.4%33.6%7:39
8/checkout/player-membership-new25138.6%61.4%3:23
9/padel-tips/padel-shoes16666.3%33.7%1:54
10/the-padel-players-guide16342.3%57.7%1:58
11/padel-tips/when-is-it-legal-to-hit-over-the-net15349.0%51.0%2:35
12/courses13665.4%34.6%6:20
13/checkout/competitor-bundle-social12743.3%56.7%2:52
14/events11362.8%37.2%3:03
15/padel-tips/padel-rules-you-need-to-know11263.4%36.6%2:19
16/padel-assessment10144.6%55.4%2:17
17/slinger-ball-machine-course10044.0%56.0%3:50
18/features9047.8%52.2%7:38
19/the-drill-book-sales-page7642.1%57.9%0:53
20/post/essential-padel-return-rules7562.7%37.3%3:26
* Row 3 "(not set)" represents API or app traffic with no page context - exclude from analysis.
Two Black Friday checkout pages entered the top 20: /checkout/tps-black-friday-offer at position 6 (268 sessions, 61.9% engagement, 3:47 average duration) and /checkout/competitor-bundle-social at position 13 (127 sessions). The Black Friday page engagement rate of 61.9% and nearly 4-minute session duration indicates visitors were seriously evaluating the offer, not just bouncing.
/checkout/player-membership-new has a 61.4% bounce rate despite being the standard checkout page. Even in a month with 95 trial starts, more than half of direct checkout arrivals are leaving. This remains the most important CRO opportunity on the site: reducing this bounce rate by 10 points would add approximately 25 additional trial starts per month.
/feed continues to perform exceptionally - 582 entry sessions, 81.1% engagement and a 14-minute average session duration. Members actively logging in and consuming content. This sustained engagement across all months is a strong indicator of healthy member retention and product satisfaction.
/the-drill-book-sales-page appeared in the top 20 for the first time at position 19 (76 sessions). The Drill Book was clearly promoted during Black Friday with its own dedicated sales page. With 1 trial start attributed to this page, it shows the product can convert directly when promoted.

Part B - Pages Linked to Trial Starts
Entry pages for trial start sessions and key insights about what they tell us about the trial start journey.
Entry Page of Trial Start Sessions
Landing PageTrial Starts
/49
/checkout/player-membership-new19
/users/sign_in5
/links4
/the-padel-players-guide3
/features2
/feed2
11 more pages11
The homepage drove 49 of 95 trial starts (51.6%), a higher share than any other month. The trial start conversion funnel in November was clearly running homepage discovery to checkout. /users/sign_in driving 5 trial starts is also higher than usual, suggesting returning or lapsed members re-activating via the sign-in page.
Key Insights for Trial Start Sessions
🏠 Homepage drove 51.6% of trial starts in November. With Black Friday campaigns pushing large volumes of traffic through email and social to the homepage, the homepage-to-checkout funnel was clearly the dominant conversion path during the promotional period.
💳 /checkout/player-membership-new drove 19 direct trial starts from 251 entry sessions. That's a 7.6% same-session conversion rate on direct checkout arrivals, notably higher than the overall site conversion rate, confirming that visitors arriving directly at checkout are the highest-intent audience on the site.
🔗 /links page drove 4 trial starts, the highest this page has produced. With YouTube bio link traffic at 155 sessions in November, there is a clear YouTube-to-links-to-trial path working. Adding a stronger trial CTA directly in the bio link page could increase this further.
📄 /the-padel-players-guide drove 3 trial starts, the highest for a content page this month. Longer content pages with high intent signals are proving they can convert. Investment in more comprehensive guide-style content is justified by this conversion data.

Section 06
Lead Generation - ScoreApp Quiz Funnel
The ScoreApp padel assessment quiz funnel. November saw a slight dip in quiz starts but leads held firm at 117, the strongest lead volume in the dataset.
Funnel Performance - November vs October
Quiz Started
User began the assessment
117
vs October: 127  -7.9%
↓ 90.6% continued to completion
Questions Answered
Total question interactions
1,770
vs October: 1,903  -7.0%
↓ 90.6% completion rate
Quiz Completed
Finished all questions
106
vs October: 115  -7.8%
↓ Lead form shown to 161 users
Lead Generated
Contact details submitted
117
vs October: 115  +1.7%
117 leads from 106 completions means some leads came from people who saw the lead form without finishing all questions. Lead capture is working above the completion stage. Despite quiz starts dropping -7.9%, leads held at 117, suggesting stronger intent quality among November quiz takers.
90.6% quiz completion rate remains very high. October also had 90.6%. The April 2026 100% completion rate was the outlier; 90-91% appears to be the genuine baseline, which is still exceptional for a quiz funnel of this type.
Which Channels Drive ScoreApp Activity?
ChannelScoreApp EventsShare
Direct970
42.7%
Organic Search541
23.8%
Organic Video375
16.5%
Organic Social116
5.1%
Email101
4.4%
Unassigned87
3.8%
Referral60
2.6%
Paid Social21
0.9%
Organic Video continues to punch above its weight for ScoreApp activity. It drove 375 ScoreApp events (16.5% of total) from just 5.9% of site sessions. This is consistent with the April 2026 data and reinforces that YouTube audiences engage with the quiz at roughly 3x the rate of the average site visitor.
Email drove 101 ScoreApp events despite "only" generating 3 same-session trial starts. This shows that email traffic, while not converting directly to trials, is actively engaging with the quiz funnel, generating leads and feeding the top of the sales pipeline. Email's contribution to the lead pipeline is demonstrably significant.
117
Leads in November (best month)
90.6%
Quiz completion rate

Section 07
Website Behaviour
The top 20 most visited pages in November, how engaged visitors are and how long sessions last
#PageSessionsEngagement RateAvg DurationPage Type
1/2,12673.0%2:08Homepage
2/feed1,29789.1%2:17Members Area
3/courses63789.8%1:27Courses
4/checkout/player-membership-new62172.3%1:26Checkout
5/drill-book45558.2%1:14Product
6/users/sign_in43178.4%1:01Login
7/links42666.0%0:35Link-in-bio
8/the-padel-players-guide38670.7%1:22Content
9/events33485.0%1:26Events
10/checkout/tps-black-friday-offer30662.7%1:41Black Friday
11/features30281.1%1:09Product
12/c/coaching-zone/28193.2%2:13Course
13/c/intermediate-level/27396.3%1:17Course
14/c/basic-level/26693.6%1:26Course
15/pricing23889.1%0:58Pricing
16/padel-assessment21173.5%0:48ScoreApp
17/account/billing18389.1%1:47Account
18/settings/profile18291.2%1:33Account
19/padel-tips/padel-shoes17064.7%1:49Content
20/c/the-drill-book-7373bc/16694.0%2:06Course
Course pages again dominate engagement with three pages averaging 93 to 96%, consistent with every month in the dataset. /c/coaching-zone/ (93.2%), /c/intermediate-level/ (96.3%) and /c/basic-level/ (93.6%) show the same pattern as April 2026, confirming that course content engagement is structural, not seasonal.
The Black Friday checkout entered at position 10 with 306 sessions and 62.7% engagement. 306 sessions against 0 visible same-session trial starts suggests Black Friday buyers visited the page, left, and came back to buy later via the standard checkout. The Black Friday offer page served as a decision-making touchpoint rather than a direct conversion page.
/settings/profile at position 18 with 91.2% engagement confirms that a significant cohort of active members is managing their accounts. Combined with /account/billing at position 17 (89.1%), member account activity is consistently high and reflects a well-retained, engaged paying base.

Section 08
Final Insights & Takeaway Summaries
Plain-English summaries of the most important findings, growth signals, watch points and anomalies from November 2025
Growth Signal: Best Trial Start Month in the Dataset

95 trial starts in November is the highest single-month figure in the TPS reporting dataset. Black Friday clearly drove commercial performance, with the homepage as the primary conversion entry point at 51.6% of all trial starts. Organic Search and Direct each held their ground as the top converting channels, delivering 42 and 37 trial starts respectively without any paid search activity.

Growth Signal: 3-Month Trial Starts Up +163.2%

The Sep to Nov 2025 period delivered 279 trial starts versus just 106 in Jun to Aug 2025. This represents a genuine step-change in commercial performance across Q4, driven by a combination of stronger organic reach, the email list maturing, Black Friday promotional activity and consistent content output on YouTube and social. TPS's Q4 momentum is clear.

Growth Signal: Email at Record Volume and Sessions

75 email sends drove 1,006 sessions in November, both records in this dataset. Black Friday was clearly the primary driver, with 8 of the 10 top emails being campaign messages. Email is demonstrating its commercial value during promotional periods at a scale not seen in other months. The list engagement is strong enough to sustain high send volumes without obvious fatigue.

Issue: 6-Month Comparison Is Not Usable

The prior 6-month period (Dec 2024 to May 2025) shows 1,539 total purchase events, but 729 of them (47%) are attributed to "Unassigned" channel. This indicates a significant tracking or attribution issue in that period where channel data was not being captured correctly. The current 6-month figure of 385 is accurate and trustworthy; the prior figure is not. Historical comparisons stretching back to 2024 should be treated with caution.

Issue: Paid Social Down -43.6%

Paid Social dropped from 754 sessions in October to 425 in November, losing 329 sessions and falling from the second to the seventh channel. This appears to be a deliberate budget reallocation towards the Black Friday email campaign. If Paid Social was paused or reduced for November, that decision should be evaluated against trial start data: November still delivered 95 trial starts without it, suggesting the organic and email channels can compensate during promotional periods.

Insight: Indonesia Is TPS's Highest-Converting Major Market

Indonesia generated 9 trial starts from 514 sessions in November, a same-session conversion rate of approximately 1.75%. For context, UK generated 26 trial starts from 3,281 sessions (0.79%). Indonesia converts at more than twice the UK rate. This is consistent with November's strong Indonesian engagement data and suggests a highly motivated buyer audience in that market that could be worth targeting more deliberately.

Insight: YouTube Bio Link Is a Significant Traffic Driver

The YouTube bio link (tagged as bio_TPS_Access_Links) drove 155 sessions in November, the single largest UTM-tagged YouTube source, outperforming every individual video. This confirms that the bio link placement is working actively and should always point to the highest-converting destination. The /links page that receives this traffic drove 4 trial starts in November, its best performance. Optimising the /links page layout specifically for conversion could meaningfully increase trial starts from this traffic source.

Insight: Email's Real Contribution Is in the Pipeline, Not Last-Click

1,006 email sessions, 101 ScoreApp events and 3 same-session trial starts in November. The last-click number dramatically understates email's role. The Black Friday campaigns drove awareness, consideration and return visits that converted later via Direct or Search. The ScoreApp funnel shows email feeding top-of-funnel qualification. Check GA4 Conversion Paths to quantify how many of November's 95 trial starts had an email touchpoint earlier in the journey.

Opportunity: Saudi Arabia Is an Emerging High-Intent Market

Saudi Arabia generated 5 trial starts from just 88 sessions in November, a conversion rate of approximately 5.7%, the highest of any market in the dataset this month. Despite sitting at position 19 in overall traffic, Saudi Arabia is converting at an exceptional rate. The Gulf padel market is growing rapidly. If TPS were to create targeted content or campaigns for this market, even small traffic increases could yield disproportionate trial starts given the demonstrated intent quality.

Opportunity: The Checkout Bounce Rate Is Still the Top CRO Win

/checkout/player-membership-new had 251 entry sessions and a 61.4% bounce rate in November. Even in the strongest trial start month on record, 154 people landed on checkout and left. The Black Friday checkout page by contrast had 38.1% bounce rate and 3:47 session duration, suggesting that a more compelling offer framing on the standard checkout page could significantly reduce bounce and increase trial starts without any additional traffic.

Watch Point: USA Traffic Down -16.7%

The USA dropped from 492 to 410 sessions in November, falling from position 5 to position 5 but with a sharper volume decline than other markets. Whether this is connected to the Paid Social reduction (which may have driven US discovery) or reflects a genuine organic drop in the US market, it is worth monitoring over December and January to determine whether it is a trend or a one-month fluctuation.

Growth Signal: ScoreApp Leads at All-Time High

117 leads in November is the highest monthly lead total in the dataset. Despite quiz starts dropping slightly versus October (-7.9%), the lead output held strong thanks to a high completion rate (90.6%) and strong lead form conversion. Organic Video continues to drive the highest-quality quiz audience relative to its session share, and email is feeding meaningful ScoreApp activity at 101 events despite the low same-session trial start conversion.


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