Onboarding Flow Measurement Study
Transit app: location ask before the first map
A regional transit consumer app with riders in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru
The team believed splash duration caused first-session loss. Our three-week measurement study of the Android path showed something else: the precise-location dialog opened on a nearly empty canvas, before any nearby stations rendered.
Of the eleven first installs we observed in the window, six denied the dialog. Four of those six never recovered a usable map because the app offered no browse-by-station fallback. The written report sequenced splash, soft-ask, system dialog, empty map, and exit.
After the readout, the team shipped a station list that loads on city defaults, then asks for precise location. A later remeasurement is planned; the first change already removed the blank-canvas ask.