There are a number of LinkedIn metrics you should track in order to gain a full understanding of how your content is performing and if you need to make changes to your LinkedIn activity or overall strategy.

Finding the best LinkedIn content metrics to track helps you determine whether your strategy is working or not. There are different categories of analytics that help you understand different things, like how your content is performing, who your audience is, and more.

Those categories include:

Content analytics
Visitor analytics
Follower analytics
Lead analytics
Newsletter analytics
Competitor analytics
Employee advocacy analytics
LinkedIn traffic analytics

Let’s walk through the different LinkedIn profile analytics you might want to consider tracking, broken down by category.

Content analytics

LinkedIn content analytics refers to how your LinkedIn posts are doing—both individually and as a whole. Your overall LinkedIn marketing strategy relies heavily on your organic content performance, so there are a lot of metrics and KPIs to track here.

Luckily, Socialinsider can be a big help. Here are some of the most important LinkedIn metrics to track, all of which can be found right inside your Socialinsider dashboard.

Reach (available in Socialinsider)

Reach is the number of people who have seen your LinkedIn content. This is the count of unique viewers of each LinkedIn post.

Understanding how many people each of your posts reaches helps you to see how your content is doing against the LinkedIn algorithm. Ideally, your post reach is equal to or greater than the number of followers your LinkedIn account has.

Note: If you’re checking this metric in your native LinkedIn analytics dashboard, it will be called “unique impressions” instead of reach.

Impressions (available in Socialinsider)

Impressions refers to the number of times your post has been seen. This number may be greater than reach as it will count all views, rather than individual people who have seen your post. So if someone has viewed your post twice, that would count as one towards reach, but two towards impressions.
You want your impressions to be higher than reach because it means that people may be coming back to check out your content again and again—a good sign that it’s resonating with your audience.

Engagement (available in Socialinsider)

Engagement refers to the number of interactions people have had with your content. On LinkedIn, this includes interactions like:

Likes/reactions
Comments
Reposts
Link clicks
Video views
Follows

If you’re posting content and not receiving any engagement, you need to rethink your content strategy. People must not be resonating well enough with your posts if they’re not leaving any reactions or comments. Play around with different types of content until you start generating engagement.

Clicks (available in Socialinsider)

Clicks are the number of times someone has clicked on your LinkedIn post. This could include clicks on a link you’ve shared, clicks on your content to read more, clicks to your company page, or clicks on a document you’ve shared.

In Socialinsider, you’ll be able to see engagement data with or without clicks. This is because clicks are metrics you’ll only gain access to when you connect an authorized LinkedIn account that you manage.

This way, you can get a more accurate comparison of certain engagement metrics by comparing engagement rates without clicks to your competitors—while also having data like engagement rate with clicks for your internal usage.

Reactions (available in Socialinsider)

On LinkedIn, reactions refer to the number of ways someone can react to a post. What started as just “likes” when LinkedIn launched has now increased to:

Like
Celebrate
Support
Love
Insightful
Funny

Though many people may just leave a simple “like,” having the option for people to leave additional reactions gives you an idea of how they feel about your content. Plus, leaving a reaction other than a “like” takes more time, meaning they wanted to dedicate more to your post than a quick click of the “like” button.

Comments (available in Socialinsider)

Comments, of course, tell you how many people have left a comment on your LinkedIn posts. You want to see this number continue to grow as you grow your LinkedIn presence.

One great way to increase the number of comments you receive is to end each of your LinkedIn posts with a question. Aim to start some dialogue around your post’s topic to see if that engages your audience better.

Reposts (available in Socialinsider)

Reposts (also known as shares) refers to the number of times someone shared or reposted your post onto their own profile or company page. When people repost your content, it opens you up to reaching a whole new audience—so you want to increase reposts.

Start by having your employees re-share your content (we’ll talk a bit more about this in the employee advocacy analytics section) and make sure to continue creating content that your audience will enjoy.

Engagement rate (available in Socialinsider)

Engagement rate is found by dividing your total engagement by your total followers, total reach, or total impressions (then multiplying by 100 to get it in percentage form). You’ll find all three of these engagement rate calculations within your Socialinsider dashboard to give you a clear idea of how engaged your audience is.

Top-performing posts sorted by engagement (available in Socialinsider)

In the Posts section of your Socialinsider dashboard, you can get a line-up of your top-performing posts sorted by engagement. You can also filter to view them by:

Engagement rate
Date
Engagement/impressions rate
Impressions
Clicks
Views

Again, look for patterns to see if you can tell which types of posts are remaining at the top, no matter which way you sort.

Content formats sorted by impressions (available in Socialinsider)

Under the Impressions tab of your Socialinsider insights, you can view your Post types by impressions bar chart. This shows you which types of posts (i.e., link shares, images, videos, polls, native documents, text, carousels) are getting the most impressions so that you can create more of that post type.

Video views (available in Socialinsider)

Under the Engagement tab in Socialinsider, you can scroll down until you reach the various video metrics—one of the most important being your video views.

Video views show you how many views your videos have gotten. Keep in mind that on LinkedIn, a video view is counted after someone has been watching your video for at least three seconds. Video views are also counted if someone watched your video more than once.

Although you can also get metrics like:

Average views per video
Total watch time
Average watch time per video

Content pillars analysis (available in Socialinsider)

Content pillars are the main topics that your business publishes content around. With Socialinsider, you can easily tag your posts into different campaigns based on their content pillar. Do this in the Campaigns tab of your dashboard.

This gives you insights into which content pillars are performing best. Perhaps a certain topic resonates better on LinkedIn while other topics might perform better on other platforms. Adjust your content strategy accordingly.

Next, you’ll want to dive into your visitor analytics to get an idea of who is checking out your LinkedIn company page. You’ll find these metrics within your native LinkedIn analytics dashboard.

Let’s walk through each section of the LinkedIn visitor metrics to give you a better idea of the data analytics you can find—and what it means for your strategy.

Visitor analytics

The visitor highlights gives you three main insights:

Page views: The number of times your company page has been viewed
Unique visitors: The number of unique individuals who have visited your company page
Custom button clicks: If you have a custom button set up at the top of your company page, this tells you how many times it was clicked in a given reporting period

This highlights section provides the perfect birds eye view of your company page performance.

Visitor metrics

This area showcases visitor metrics that are based on your page traffic. Filter this by time ranges to watch the line graph adjust based on your request. You can also see how many people checked out your different page sections, the number of times your page was viewed, as well as your unique visitors (again).

Visitor demographics

Here, you can get a better understanding of the type of person that’s regularly visiting your company page based on their profile demographics.

Find details like:

Job function
Location
Seniority
Industry
Company size

This can help you gauge whether or not you’re reaching the right people with your content.

Life page traffic

Life pages are custom pages that let you share more of your company culture with job seekers on LinkedIn. You can share more of what your company does, who works for you, and more. This is a great way to appeal to talent during hiring periods.

And you can get insights specifically about your life page performance under the Visitors tab. Find metrics like total visitors as well as unique visits to make sure people are checking out your published life page.

Follower analytics

The third tab in LinkedIn’s native analytics dashboard tells you all about the people who have actually clicked that Follow button and are now actively following your company page.

Let’s dive into the different follower metrics you can find within the native LinkedIn analytics tool.

Follower highlights

Get quick insights into your LinkedIn followers in the highlights area. You’ll find:

Total followers: The total number of followers your company has on the platform
New followers: Your follower growth within the last 30 days, along with your growth percentage

Follower metrics

In this section, you get access to a line graph showcasing how your follower growth has changed over a given period of time. While this graph will likely show some periods of growth and others of decline, you ideally want to see upward trends overall.

Follower demographics

This section houses similar data to the visitor demographics section. Find out who is following you based on their set LinkedIn demographics. You’ll see info like:

Job function
Location
Seniority
Industry
Company size

All followers

This section showcases your company page followers along with certain details about them plus when they followed your page, listed in order of recency.

Lead analytics

As LinkedIn is a professional social networking platform, it of course provides the option to generate leads. And it has an analytics report just for you to see how your lead generation is doing.

In this section, you’ll be able to see each lead generation campaign you’ve run, when it was created, its current status, and how many leads it’s generated. Then, you’ll be able to download a file of all leads to add to your CRM and start nurturing them.

Newsletter analytics

If your company has started its own LinkedIn newsletter, you’ll want to pay attention to this section in your LinkedIn analytics platform—it’ll help you get an idea of how your newsletter is performing.

Let’s dig through the sections available in the LinkedIn newsletter analytics report.

Trends

See trends of your newsletter over a given time frame. The specific metrics you can find here are:

Article views: The number of times your newsletter content has been seen
New subscribers: The number of new people who have subscribed to your newsletter

You’ll also see a line graph so you can visually see any growth.

Article totals

Here, you’ll get key metrics from your newsletter, like:

Impressions: Total number of views your newsletter has gotten
Engagements: Total number of engagements your newsletter has gotten
Article views: Total number of times someone has clicked on one of your articles to open and read it

Subscriber demographics

Filter through your subscribers based on their:

Job function
Location
Seniority
Industry
Company size

New subscribers

View your subscribers in order of recency. You’ll see snippets of their profile, showing you their job title and level of connection.

Competitor analytics

Next, you can find your LinkedIn competitor analytics. First, you’ll need to add pages that you want to compare your own performance to.

From there, you’ll get access to a couple new sections that can help you track your growth versus their growth.

Competitor highlights

Here, you can see how many posts you shared versus your competitors within the last 30 days, as well as your engagement rate versus theirs.

New follower metrics

See where you rank in new followers versus the competition over the last 30 days in this chart.

Organic content metrics

See where you rank in total engagements and total posts amongst your competition with this section.

Employee advocacy analytics

This section tells you which employee advocacy metrics to track, giving you an idea of how active your employees are on the platform. As LinkedIn is focused more on professionalism, many employees use it to promote or mention the brands they work for.

This is called employee advocacy—when your team members are actively advocating for your company—and can be a great way to reach a wider audience and generate more leads and sales.

If you’re wanting to run an employee advocacy campaign, you’ll want to take advantage of this section. It gives you details like:

How many employees are posting
How many LinkedIn members are interacting with your employees
Content that’s been recommended to your employees

There are a number of different metrics you can track here, depending on what you’re looking to get out of your employee advocacy program.