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What metrics are available for each report?
What metrics are available for each report?

Your handy guide to Reports and a reference for what metrics are included in each type of report

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Curious about the metrics included in your HeyOrca reports? Use this guide to understand the key data points available for each report type.

Generate and view reports

Before you get started, it's always good to make sure that your accounts are connected to HeyOrca and don't need to be reauthorized.

To access reports, click the Reports button in the left sidebar.

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Select the report you want to view from the Reports Dashboard or the left navigation bar.


Once your report is selected, you will see an overview of your key performance metrics at top:

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Hovering over the information icon (i) will show you how these numbers are calculated.

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Facebook Reports

When generating Facebook account reports, you will be able to view your report for Engagements, Impressions, Page Likes, and Top Posts.

Overview

The overview section of your Facebook report will display the Key Performance Metrics for your profile: Impressions, Engagement Rate, Total Engagement and Change in Page Likes for your selected date range.

Page Engagements

The Page Engagements graph will display your Reactions, Comments, Shares, Clicks, and Page Actions, along with the total of these various engagement metrics.

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Page Impressions

The Page Impressions graph will display your organic impressions, paid impressions and the total impressions for the chosen date range.

Image displaying a graph of the Page Impressions with organic and paid impressions


You can view this graph by each individual metric but simply clicking one metric to remove it from the graph:

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Page Likes

The Page Likes graph allows you to see your Organic Page Likes, Paid Page Likes, Page Unlikes, Changes in Page Likes and the Total for the chosen time period.


Easily see how audience is respond to your page, and view the growth of your page directly from your reports!

Post Performance

The Post Performance overview section of your Facebook report will display the Key Performance Metrics for your posts: post engagements, post engagement rate, post impressions, and post reach for your selected date range.


You can hover over the information icon (i) of each section to these numbers are calculated.

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The Post Performance section displays your published content for the selected date range and allows you to sort by a metric of your choice, and filter from best to worst, or worst to best:

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Instagram Business Reports

Overview

The overview section for Instagram reports will display your Impressions, Engagement Rate, Total Engagement, and Change in Followers for the chosen date range.

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Net Follower Growth

The Net Follower Growth graph will display your Followers Gained, Followers Lost, and Change in Followers for the chosen date range.

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Total Followers

The Total Followers graph specifically focuses only on your Total Followers value for your Instagram channel.

Impressions

The impressions graph will display your Impressions for your Instagram account for the chosen date range. Impressions refers to the number of times your posts, stories, reels, videos and live videos were on screen, including in ads (includes both paid and organic).

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Note: That the impressions metric is different from reach metric, and may include multiple views of your content by the same account.

Account Engagement

The Account Engagement graph displays the total number of actions users take on your Instagram account posts. This includes Likes, Comments, Saves, Shares, Story replies along with the total for the chosen date range, and can be filtered to display organic metrics only, paid metrics only, or a combination of paid and organic.

Graph that shows Account Engagements. Each metric is signified by a different color line.

Post Performance

The Post Performance overview section of your Instagram report will display the Key Performance Metrics for your posts: post reach, post engagement, post impressions, story impression, average watch time, total watch time, and total plays for your selected date range.


Stories Performance

The Stories Performance graph displays the Impressions, Reach, Replies, Exits, Taps Back, Taps Forward, Shares, Follows, and Profile Visits on your Instagram stories.

Any stories with fewer than 5 impressions will not appear on the graph due to Instagram's limitations

Top Stories

The top stories section will display your top performing stories and allow you to sort by Impressions, Reach, Replies, Taps Forwards, Taps Back, Exits and by Date. You can also sort by Best to Worst, and Worst to Best

Reels Plays & Engagement

The Reels Plays graph displays the total number of plays the Reel has received, as well as the total number of times your Reel starts to play for the first time, which excludes replays.


The Reels Engagement graph displays the total number of actions users take on your Reels. This includes likes, comments, saves and shares.



Post Performance

Similar to the Top Stories, the Post Performance section will display your top performing posts for your chosen date range. You can sort by metrics like Engagements, Comments, Likes, Saves and by Date, and filter your posts by Best to Worst, and Worst to Best

LinkedIn Reports

Overview

The overview section for your LinkedIn Reports will display your Impressions, Engagement Rate, Post Clicks, and Audience Growth for the chosen date range.

*LinkedIn's API only allows up to 1 year of metrics to be collected from the API.

Audience Growth

The Audience Growth graph shows the number of people who followed your page for your chosen date range. This section includes both your Organic Followers Gained and your Paid Followers Gained.

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Impressions

The impressions graph displays organic impressions gathered on your page for the chosen date range. The graph will display both your Impressions, as well as your Unique Impressions.

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Engagements

The engagement graph for your LinkedIn reports displays your Likes, Comments, Shares, Post Clicks (all) and the Total of these engagements for your date range.

Post Performance

This section will display your top performing posts for your chosen date range. You can sort your Top Posts by Engagements, Like, Shares, Clicks, Comments, Date

You can also further sort your top performing content to rank from Best to Worst, or Worst to Best to discover actionable insights!

X Reports

Overview

Your X (Twitter) Report overview section will display the Total Engagements, Likes, Retweets and Change in Followers for your selected date range.

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Net Follower Growth

The Net Follower Growth displays the total follower growth and the Change in Followers over the period of time selected for your account.

Engagements

The engagement graph displays Likes and Retweets along with the Total Engagement by users taken on your X content.

Top Posts

The Post Performance section will display your top performing posts for your chosen date range. You can sort your Top Posts by Engagements, Like, Shares, Clicks, Comments, Date

Image displaying a dropdown with option to sort the top posts section of a report based on different factors, like engagement, reach, etc.

You can also sort by Best to Worst, and Worst to Best!

TikTok Reports

Profile Overview

The overview section for your TikTok Reports will display your key metrics including Post Views, Engagement Rate, Total Engagement and Change in Followers

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Net Follower Graph

The net follower graph displays the growth of your TikTok followers over the selected time.

Profile Engagement

The Profile Engagement graph displays the total number of actions users take on your TikTok account. This includes Likes, Comments, and Shares and Total Engagement

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Post Views

The Post Views graph displays the total number of times your TikTok account's posts have been viewed. A user swiping away and swiping back will count as another view. If a user reaches the end of a video and it starts over, that will not be counted as another view.

Profile Views

The Profile View Graph shows the total number times users have viewed your TikTok profile page.

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Post Performance Overview

The post performance overview will show your Post Engagment, Reach and Views for the select time duration in the Post Performance Summary.

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Post Engagement

The Post Engagement Graph shows the total number of actions users take on your TikTok posts. This includes likes, comments, and saves.

Post Views

Post Views display the total number of all views and unique views on your posts. A user swiping away and swiping back will count as another view, but will not increase reach. If a user reaches the end of a video and it starts over, that will not be counted as another view.

Top Performing Posts

The post performance section of your TikTok Reports shows you your top performing content for your selected TikTok profile. Top Posts include metrics for Likes, Comments, Shares, Views, Average Watch Time and Reach!

Facebook Competitors Reports

The Facebook Competitor Reports show your content performance and brand's growth on Facebook compared to your selected competitors.

Facebook Page Engagements

Compare Engagements on your Facebook accounts with your selected competitor accounts.

Facebook Page Fans

Compare the number of likes on your Facebook accounts with your selected competitor accounts. The number of page fans is equal to the number of people who have liked your page.

Published Posts

Compare the type of content being posted on your Facebook accounts with the type of content being posted on your selected competitor accounts.

Top Posts

View up to 3 of your best performing posts for your Facebook accounts and selected competitor accounts.

Instagram Competitor Reports

The Instagram Competitor Reports show your content performance and brand's growth on Instagram compared to your selected competitors.


Instagram Business Followers

Compare the follower growth of your Instagram Accounts with your selected competitor accounts.

Published Posts

Compare the type of content being posted on your Instagram accounts with the type of content being posted on your selected competitor accounts.

Top Posts

View up to 3 of your best performing posts for your Instagram accounts and selected competitor accounts.

Custom Reports

Custom Reports allows you to generated reports for one or more social channels, including only the metrics you need!

To begin, click Customize to select the accounts and metrics you wish to include in your Custom Report:

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By default, Custom Reports will display Cross Channel Impressions, Engagements and Audience Growth graphs along with the Top Performing Posts.

Cross Channel graphs overlay the data for each of your selected channels in a singular graph, to compare and contrast performance.

Cross-Channel Impressions

The Cross-Channel Impressions graph shows your impressions for your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok account as well as the Total Impressions for that date range.

Cross-Channel Engagements

The Cross Channel Engagement graph displays engagement across your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and TikTok account along with the Total Engagements.

Cross-Channel Audience Growth

The audience growth graph displays the growth of your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and TikTok audience along with the Total Growth.

Post Performance

The post performance section of your Cross Channel Reports shows you your top performing content for your selected platforms. You'll be able to easily see your best performing content across all channels, right within your reports dashboard.

You can sort your top performing posts across your channels by Engagement, Likes and Date!

Other Custom Reports metrics

Visit our full guide on Custom Reports here!

Here's a summary of each graph type that can be added per platform in a Custom Report. Note: Each graph can be added as a bar graph, or line graph.

Facebook

  • Page Engagements

  • Page Impressions

  • Change in Page Likes

  • Total Page Likes

  • Post Engagements

  • Post Views

Instagram

  • Net Follower Growth

  • Total Followers

  • Impressions

  • Account Engagement

  • Post Engagement

  • Stories Performance

  • Reels Play

  • Reels Engagement

X (Twitter)

  • Net Follower Growth

  • Total Followers graph

  • Engagements

LinkedIn

  • Audience Growth

  • Impressions

  • Engagements

TikTok

  • Net Follower Growth

  • Total Followers

  • Profile Engagement

  • Profile Video Views

  • Profile Views

  • Post Engagement

  • Post Views

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