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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

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Note: On April 6, 2026, the X (formerly Twitter) integration will be removed from HeyOrca, discontinuing X analytics and direct publishing. For more information, visit our FAQ page here.

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.​

Interface displaying various report options. Features blocks labeled for Facebook Pages, Instagram Business Profiles, Instagram Demographics, LinkedIn Corporate Pages, LinkedIn Personal, X Profiles, TikTok Profiles, and a Custom Report option.

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

Image displaying a Facebook page report. At the top and shows the profile overview metrics - views, engagement rate, total engagement and change in page follows.

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

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Historical Data Availability by Platform

Platform

Historical Data Available

Notes

Facebook

Up to 2 years

Instagram

Up to 2 years*

  • Follower & engagement data may be limited before account connection.

  • Stories data available only from the date of account connection.

Competitor Reports

Up to 2 years*

  • For newly added competitors, Followers/Page Fans data may take up to 24 hours to appear. Data collection begins from the date the competitor is added, so reports for periods prior to that date may be incomplete.

LinkedIn

Up to 1 year

TikTok

Profile insights: Up to 60 days before data collection began

Post insights: Up to 2 years

  • Post data may not refresh after 7 days of inactivity but stale data remains accessible.

X (formerly Twitter)

Post data is available for the 100 most recent posts published before the account was connected to HeyOrca, and can be collected up to 2 years after connection date.

  • Follower data is available from connection date onward.



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: Views, Engagement Rate, Total Engagement and Change in Page Follows for your selected date range.

shows the profile overview metrics - views, engagement rate, total engagement and change in page follows.

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.

Image displaying a graph of the social account metrics

This metric is a page-level metric, meaning it includes engagement gathered during the selected period, across all posts regardless of when they were published.

Page Views

The Page Views graph will display your organic views, paid views and the total views for the chosen date range. This indicates the number of times your content was played or displayed, including videos, posts, stories and ads.

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

You can view this graph by each individual metric by selecting the metric you want to remove from the graph: ​

Image displaying a graph of the Page Impressions with organic impressions only

Page Follows

The Page Follows graph allows you to see your Page Follows, Page Unfollows, and the Change in Page Follows for the chosen time period. You can view your total page follows under the "Total Page Follows" metric.

This metric shows how your audience is responding to your page, and allows you to view the growth of your page directly from your reports!

Post Engagement

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 see how these numbers are calculated.​

Image of the Post Engagements graph and its description

These metrics are post-level metrics, meaning they include the lifetime engagement gathered on posts published during the selected date range.


Reels Engagement

The Reels Engagement graph displays the total number of actions users take on your Reels. This includes follows, likes, and social actions, which is a combined metric for comments and shares.

Image of the Reels Engagement graph and it's description


Post Performance

​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:

Image displaying posts from a social account, showing their metrics and image.

Instagram Business Reports

Overview

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

Net Follower Growth

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

Total Followers

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

Views

The Views graph will display your Views for your Instagram account for the chosen date range. Views refers to the number of times your content was played or displayed. This metric is different from reach metric, and may include multiple views of your content by the same account.

Image showing the Views graph

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. ​

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

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.

Drop-down menu showing different options for the graph: "Show paid metrics", "show organic metrics" or "Show both paid and organic metrics."

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 views, story views, average watch time, total watch time, and total plays for your selected date range.

Screenshot of "Post performance overview" section which displays post reach, post engagement, post views, story views, average watch time and total watch time.


Stories Performance

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

Picture of the "Reels Engagement" graph. Each metric is signified by a different color line.

Any stories with fewer than 5 views 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 Views, Reach, Replies, Taps Forwards, Taps Back, Exits and by Date. You can also sort by Best to Worst, and Worst to Best.


Post Views

The Post Views graph displays the number of times your content was played or displayed. Content includes reels, posts, stories.

Image of the Post Views graph. The total is written at the bottom of the graph.

Reels Engagement

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

Picture of the "Reels Engagement" graph.



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

Post Performance section displays 3 posts and a bar showing the breakdown between images, carousels and reels. A pop allows to sort by types of metrics, or from best to worst and vice versa.

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.

Image displaying an overview of a social account's metrics.

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.

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.

Image displaying a graph of the impressions, broken down between impressions and unique impressions.

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.

Image displaying a graph of the engagements including Likes, Comments, Shares, Post Clicks (All), and the Total of all engagements.

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.

Post Performance section displays 3 posts and a bar showing the breakdown between images, carousels and reels. A pop allows to sort by types of metrics, or from best to worst and vice versa.

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, Reposts and Change in Followers for your selected date range.

Image displaying an overview of a social account's metrics.

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 Reposts 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

Net Follower Graph

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

Picture of a graph showing the change in followers.

Profile Engagement

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

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.

Image displaying a graph of the Post Views.

Profile Views

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

Image displaying a graph of the profile views.

Post Performance Overview

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

Image displaying an overview of a social account's metrics.

Post Engagement

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

Image displaying an overview of a social account's Post Engagement, including likes, comments, shares and total engagement.

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.

Image displaying an overview of a social account's post views.

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!

Image displaying an overview of a social account's top performing posts.

Custom Reports

Custom Reports allow you to generate 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:

Image showing a Custom Report with an arrow pointing at the "Customize" button.

Image showing the Customize menu with a list of social accounts and the selected metrics

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.

Image showing the cross-channel impressions for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok. Each platform is shown with a different coloured line.

Cross-Channel Engagements

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

Image showing the cross-channel engagements for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok. Each platform is shown with a different coloured line.

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.

Image showing the cross-channel audience growth for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok. Each platform is shown with a different coloured line.

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.

Image showing the 3 best performing posts for Facebook.

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

Social Listening Reports

Facebook Competitors Reports

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

Image displaying an overview of a social account's metrics compared to their competitor's.

Facebook Page Engagements

Image displaying Facebook post engagements for HeyOrca and Hootsuite. Each account has a different colour line in the graph. Their average post engagements are also broken down in a bar by reactions, comments and shares.

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

Facebook Page Fans

Image displaying Facebook page fans for HeyOrca and Hootsuite.

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

Image displaying a breakdown of published post types for HeyOrca and Hootsuite.

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.

Image displaying an overview of a social account's metrics compared to their competitor's.


Instagram Business Followers

Image displaying Instagram business followers for HeyOrca and Hootsuite.

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

Published Posts

Image displaying published post types for HeyOrca and a selected competitor.

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

Image displaying top posts on Instagram for HeyOrca and the selected competitor. A filter pop-up shows the option to filter the top posts, or sort by engagement type.

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

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