Instagram Insights: Tracking and analyzing your performance is a commonplace activity among marketers across all platforms. Tracking and analyzing is important because it helps you see what content is driving the most engagement, to discover what’s working, to find out what’s not, and to determine what needs to be tested and optimized.
In this article, we will show you how to use and understand Instagram insights. The platform’s built-in analytics tool is usedto track your performance.
Accessing Instagram Insights
You will be able to access Instagram Insights from the Instagram app once you switch to a professional account. To access Insights, you simply have to open the Instagram app while logged in to your account, tap on the profile icon, then tap on the menu icon. Lastly, tap on the insights tab on the menu.
This will take you the insights section, where you’ll find detailed analytics and metrics about your content, your activity, and your audience, and we will explain what the information and metrics on this section mean.
Activity Metrics
“Activity Metrics” are details about the performance of your content, such as the number of people your reach and how much engagement they generated.
Impressions
Impressions represents the number of times your content has been seen by users. This is a relevant metric because it includes all kinds of use.
That means that your total number of impressions includes the number of times users saw your content, read your content, and actually paid attention to your content, but it also includes the number of times that users scrolled past your content without paying attention to it.
It also includes a number of times that people visited your profile or that saw your content through a direct message.
In other words, you can use this metric to determine how many times people have seen your profile and your content across all possible placements.
Reach
Reach is also related to the number of users you get on your content. But this time it relates to unique views.
A unique view represents unique views from an individual user. So if one user visited your profile and then searched your content, it counts as a unique view.
This is a much more relevant metric because it lets you know the number of users that actually viewed your profile and content.
Interactions
Interactions represent engagement. This is likes, comments, shares and saves. This is a much more accurate metric when it comes to determining performance because it lets you know if you are getting a healthy amount of interactions when compared to your impressions and reach.
To give you an examples, let’s imagine that you are getting thousands and thousands of impressions and reach, but only a handful of likes and comments and no one is saving your posts. This is a signal that you are reaching a good number of people, but that your content isn’t engaging enough. On the other hand, if you are generating a thousand impressions a day and a similar amount of interactions, then it means you are on the right track.
Audience Metrics
Audience Metrics are details about your audience. More specifically, they are pieces of demographic information that will allow you to learn more about the type of people that you attract with your content.
Audience metrics you’ll find through insights are as follows:
Gender
Audience metrics includes the gender range of your audience. It will be represented as a percentage and it will help you to know which gender finds your content relevant.
Age
Audience metrics also includes the age range of your audience. It is represented as a percentage as well, and it helps you to know what’s the average age of people that find your content enjoyable or useful.
Top Locations
Insights will also provide you with a breakdown of the locations where your audience lives and includes cities and countries from top to bottom.
By knowing your top locations, you can also uncover other details about your audience, such as dominant language, time zone and purchasing power.
Active Hours
Another useful metric is “hours” and “days” when your followers are the most active. This information will help you to better plan and schedule when to publish your content for maximum reach and engagement.
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Author: Ankita Mundhra