Email reports with a CSV file should use the friendly column names ("Visits" instead of "nb_visits")
#17,122 opened on Jan 20, 2021
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Description
When creating an email report in the "CSV" format, the CSV file uses "raw" column names, like this:
Visits Summary
nb_uniq_visitors,nb_visits,nb_actions,max_actions,nb_actions_per_visit,avg_time_on_site,bounce_rate
8068,8146,21495,291,2.6,00:03:23,60%
Here is the top of the CSV file:

Maybe it would be easier for most people If we added translateColumnNames=1 to the CSV report generator request,
so that the output would go to the more friendly format eg:
Visits Summary
Label,Unique visitors,Visits,Actions,Users,Maximum actions in one visit,Total time spent by visitors (in seconds),Bounces,Visits with Conversions
Germany,1781,1788,4850,0,66,409926,1032,709,613,613
also it seems that even when downloading any report in Matomo it also sets translateColumnNames=1? (I've been trying but can't find a way to generate the CSV report with "raw" columns from the "Export this data" icon below reports. ). So doing this for email reports as well would maybe make it overall more consistent.