Facebook Insights
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This document provides an overview of Facebook Insights, which is an analytics tool for Facebook Page owners. It allows Page owners to monitor key metrics about their audience and how people interact with their Page. The dashboard provides data on metrics like new page likes, daily active users, post views, and post interactions. It also provides more detailed breakdowns of audience demographics and interactions with specific page posts. The goal is to help page owners understand their audience and optimize their page to increase engagement.
Facebook Insights
- 1. Facebook Insights Product Guide for Facebook Page owners Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Monitor key metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Get Insights about the people using your Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Get Insights about how people interact with Your Page . . . . . 10 Get more fans and interactions for your Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Facebook © 2011 Page 1
- 2. Introduction Facebook Insights: Analytics for Websites, Applications and Pages all in one place Having good analytics is a key to successfully growing a business. To this end, we want to provide you with even better metrics for your Facebook Apps, websites, and Pages. We’re excited to announce that we recently launched an improved Insights dashboard. The new Insights dashboard provides a single view of all your Facebook analytics related to: Websites, including fully-integrated sites, sites that use social plugins, as well as non-integrated domains Apps, including canvas, mobile, device, and desktop apps Facebook Pages, including Pages created on Facebook.com and those that are part of the Open Graph protocol For example, you can now view analytics about specific stories that people liked on your website, or how many people commented on your Page Posts*. This data will tell you what your audience finds most interesting so that you can capitalize on that content. In this guide, we will focus on Insights for your Page and will help you understand the analytics that Insights provide. This information can be used to fine-tune pages in order to increase engagement. If you have integrated the Open Graph protocol into your Web pages, Insights will capture engagement with Pages regardless of whether an action was taken on or off Facebook. *Note: This is anonymized aggregate data and does not include personally identifiable information. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 2
- 3. Getting Started To see metrics on your Facebook Page, go to the Insights dashboard (http://www.facebook. com/insights). Only Page admins, application owners, and domain admins can view Insights data for the properties they own or administer. On this dashboard, you’ll be able to see basic metrics for all of your Pages: Likes Interactions Monthly Active Users: The number of people Daily Post Views: The number of times who have interacted with or viewed your people (fans and non-fans) have viewed Page or its posts in the last 30 days. This a story posted by your Page during the includes interactions from fans and non- last complete day for which the data was fans. gathered. Daily New Likes: The number of new Likes Daily Post Feedback: The number of likes that your Page received during the last and comments made on stories posted by complete day for which the data was your Page during the last complete day for gathered. which the data was gathered. To access a more detailed dashboard for a specific Page, select the name of the Page in the drop- down menu on the left navigation bar or click on ‘View Insights’ under the name of your Page. Two Ways to View Detailed Insights 1 2 © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 3
- 4. Monitor key metrics: Page Overview tab The tabs on the left side of the page allow you to navigate within the Insights dashboard. The Page overview tab shows you key metrics about who the people engaging with your Page are, as well as how they interact with it. You can also export these analytics directly into a spreadsheet. You can select whether you want to see monthly or weekly data in the top right corner of the page. If you select monthly data, the dashboard will automatically default to the last complete month. If you select weekly data, the dashboard will automatically default to the last complete week. You can also choose to refine the date range. If at any point you’re unsure of what date range you’re looking at, you can mouse over the question mark next to the metric. Tabs Date Selector © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 4
- 5. Users Facebook is rebuilding the web around people, and lets businesses build authentic connections at scale. In the User section, you can learn more about the people who engage with your Page. New Likes: The number of new Likes that your Page received, during the date range you specified. Lifetime Likes: The total number of Likes that your Page received, as of the end of your date range. Monthly Active Users: The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts in the last 30 days. This includes interactions from fans and non-fans. Monthly Active: The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts in the last 30 days. Weekly Active: The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts in the last 7 days. Daily Active: The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts in the last day. Active Users: The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 5
- 6. Interactions When you create compelling content, people will want to interact with it by commenting, liking, or writing on your Wall. These people help to share your content organically throughout Facebook, as their interactions lead to organic stories being published in their friends’ News Feeds. The Interactions section of Insights allows you to track how people interact with your stories, and helps you evolve your content to make it more effective. Post Views: The number of times people (fans and non-fans) have viewed a story posted by your Page, during the date range you specified. Post Feedback: The number of Likes and comments made on stories posted by your Page, during the date range you specified. Comments: The number of times people have commented on a post by your Page during the date range. Likes: The number of times people have liked a post by your Page during the date range. Page Content Feedback: The number of Likes and comments made on stories posted by your Page, during the date range you specified. Export your data You can export data from the dashboard using the ‘Export’ button at the top right corner of the dashboard. After you click the Export button, a dialog box allows you to specify the date range that you would like to export data for as well as whether you would like to get the data as an Excel file or as a CSV (comma separated values) file. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 6
- 7. Get Insights about the people using your Page: Users tab If you want to get more details about the people using your Page, click ‘See Details’ next to ‘Users’ on the Page Overview tab. The Users tab not only contains the same user metrics as the Page Overview tab (New Likes, Lifetime Likes, Monthly Active Users, Active Users), but also more detailed breakdowns of the people using your Page based on their demographics and activity on your Page. In Practice If you discover on this dashboard that many people like your posts but don’t comment on them, you might want to try asking for their opinions more often and giving them a chance to provide input or share stories about your business. You might also discover on this dashboard that the majority of people who like your Page are women 18 to 24, and you might decide to run an ad campaign for this particular demographic, or post content on your Page that will resonate with those young women. Daily Active Users Breakdown Breakdown of the number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts on that day, by type of action, during the date range you specified. This includes views and interactions from both fans and non-fans. Daily Wall Posts: the number of times someone wrote on your Page wall on that day. Commented on a Post: the number of times someone commented on one of your Page posts on that day. Liked a Post: the number of times someone clicked Like on one of your Page posts on that day. Post Viewers: the number of people who have seen your content in their News Feed or on your Page’s Wall on that day. Unique Page Views: the number of unique people who have visited your Page on that day. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 7
- 8. New Likes The number of new Likes that your Page received, during the date range you specified. Unlikes: the number of people who unliked your Page on that day. New Likes: the number of new people who liked your Page on that day. Like Sources Breakdown of the number of Page Likes from Suggestions: the number of new Likes from Page the most common places where people can like suggestions that Facebook recommends to people your Page, during the date range you specified. Note: this does not include all areas of Facebook Ads: the number of new Likes directly from the inline where people can like your Page. action of an Ad Like Box: the number of new Likes from the Like box Page: the number of new Likes directly from your social plugin Facebook Page User Profile Page: the number of new Likes Search: the number of new Likes from the Facebook from the user profile of someone who has search page already liked your Page Requests: the number of new Likes from friends who Unknown: additional areas of Facebook where send Page recommendations to other friends people can like your Page that are not yet being explicitly reported in the Insights dashboard Stream: the number of new Likes from stories displayed in News Feed Demographics Gender and Age: Aggregated demographic data about the people who like your Page based on the age and gender information they provide in their user profiles, for the date range you specified. Countries: Number of people who like your Page, broken down by country, based on the geolocation of users’ IP addresses, for the date range you specified. Cities: Number of people who like your Page, broken down by city, based on the geolocation of users’ IP addresses, for the date range you specified. Language: Number of people who like your Page, broken down by language, based on the default language setting selected when accessing Facebook, for the date range you specified. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 8
- 9. Tab Views and External Referrers Tab Views: Number of views that each tab on your Page received when logged-in users visited your Page, during the date range you specified. External Referrers: Number of views coming from the top referring external domains sending traffic to your Page, during the date range you specified. Page Views Total number of views of your Facebook Page, during the date range you specified. Unique Page Views: Number of distinct people who visited your Page. Daily Logged-in Page Views *: Number of views of your Page by people logged into their Facebook accounts. *Note: Most people use Facebook when they are logged in Media Consumption After you post a Facebook video, a photo, or an audio clip, people are able to click to consume that piece of content. This data corresponds to number of views of that your videos, photos and audio clips received on that day, during the date range you specified. Photo Views: Number of views that the photos you posted to your Page received on that day. Audio Listens: Number of views that the audio clips you posted to your Page received on that day. Video Views: Number of views that the videos you posted to your Page received on that day. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 9
- 10. Get Insights about how people interact with your Page: Interactions tab If you want to get more details about how people are interacting with your Page, click ‘See Details’ next to ‘Interactions’ on the Page Overview tab. The Interactions dashboard not only contains the same metrics as the Page Overview tab (Post Views, Post Feedback), but also more granular data on the interactions on your page, such as the number of impressions and feedback on specific posts, and the breakdown of the type of interactions, from people writing on your Page wall to people mentioning your Page in their status updates. In Practice You can compare the engagement that each specific post generates in order to identify patterns: if you notice that asking questions to your audience always generates more comments than other posts, you might decide to ask questions more frequently. Or, if you decide to run a specific promotion where people have to post a video to your Wall, you can now track the number of videos that were posted. Daily Story Feedback When you post stories to people who like your Page, they can engage with your content by liking or commenting. They can also choose to unsubscribe from your Page so that stories will not appear in their News Feed in the future. Unsubscribes: Number of people who unsubscribed from your Page on that day. Comments: Number of times people comments on your stories on that day. Likes: Number of times people clicked ‘Like’ on your stories on that day. Page Posts The total number of times your Page post was seen in News Feed or on the Page Wall. The feedback percentage is the ratio of the total Likes and comments on that story over the total number of times the story was seen. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 10
- 11. Daily Page Activity Other than liking and commenting on your posts, people who like your Page can engage with it in a number of ways. They can write on your Page’s Wall, upload photos or videos to your Page, write reviews (if applicable), create posts on your Discussion Board, or mention your Page in their own status updates or Wall Posts to their friends. Daily Videos: The number of times people posted a video to your Page on that day. Daily Wall Posts: The number of times people posted on your Page’s Wall on that day. Daily Reviews: The number of times someone wrote a review on your Page on that day. Daily Discussions Posts: The number of times people participated on your Discussion Board on that day. Daily Mentions: The number of times the name of your Page was mentioned in people’s status updates. or Wall posts on that day. Daily Places Activity Your Page is associated with one or more Places. People can engage with your Places from their mobile device by checking in when they are nearby or claiming a Deal if you have enabled this feature. Note: Check-ins and Claimed Deals are only being counted since March 8, 2011. Claimed Deals: The number of times people claimed a Deal at your Place on that day, if you have enabled this feature. Check-ins: The number of times people checked in at your Place on that day. © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 11
- 12. Get more fans and interactions for your Page One of the best ways to increase the number of fans and interactions of your Page is to create a Facebook Ad campaign. With Facebook Ads, you can promote your Page to more than 500 million potential customers, choose your audience by location, age and interest, use our ‘Like’ button to increase your ad’s influence and build a community around your business. Simply click ‘Create an Ad’ at the top right hand corner of any page within Insights to get started. If you want more information about Facebook Ads, please visit our Guide to Facebook Ads (http://www.facebook.com/adsmarketing). © 2011 Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications subject to change without notice. 12