POSTS
Number of Posts
Number of posts, that were published in selected time period.
Posts per Day
Number of posts, that were published in selected time period (average).
Post-Interaction
The post interaction shows how active the fans engage with posts of a page. It shows the average amount of all interactions (reactions (likes, love, wow, haha etc.), comments and shares) per fan per post. As opposed to the Engagement Rate, the Post Interaction ignores days without any posts.
Example:
Page A yields the following interaction values:
Monday: 20 interactions and 3500 fans and 2 posts
Tuesday: 0 interactions and 3590 fans and 0 posts
Wednesday: 37 interactions and 3700 fans and 1 post
Thursday: 100 interactions and 3750 fans and 3 posts
Friday: 0 interactions and 3755 fans and 1 post
Saturday: 0 interactions and 3780 fans and 0 posts
Sunday: 2 interactions and 3783 fans and 3 posts
Now we sum up all interactions by fans for every post and divide it by the amount of posts. ( (20/3500) + (37/3700) + (100/3750) + (2/3783) ) / (2+1+3+1+3) = 4.29% Total Interaction Rate / 10 Posts = 0.429% That means, in this week each fan interacted 0.00429 times with each post of the page.
Weighted Engagement
The weighted engagement is calculated like the regular engagement, but gives a score to the user reactions. Shares are assumed to be three times, comments two times more valuable than reactions (likes, love, wow, haha etc.).
Weighted Post-Interaction
The weighted post-interaction is calculated like the regular post-interaction, but gives a score to the user posts. Shares are assumed to be three times, comments two times more valuable than likes.
Picture-Posts
Number of picture-posts, that were published in selected time period.
Video-Posts
Number of video-posts, that were published in selected time period.
Link-Posts
Number of link-posts, that were published in selected time period.
User Posts
Number of user-posts, that were published in selected time period.
User Posts per day
Number of user-posts, that were published in selected time period (average per day).
Comments on User Posts
Number of comments on user-posts, that were published in selected time period.
User posts with comment by page
Number of user-posts, that were published in selected time period and got a reply from the fanpage.
User posts with reaction of page
Number of user-posts, that were published in selected time period and got an interaction from the fanpage.
PROFILE
Engagement
The Engagement shows an average amount of how often a fan interacts with the posts of a page. It is calculated by dividing the daily amount of reactions (likes, love, wow, haha etc.), comments and shares by the number of fans. If you are looking at a longer period of time it takes the average of the daily Engagement rates.
Example: Page A yields the following interaction values:
Monday: 20 interactions and 3500 fans
Tuesday: 0 interactions and 3590 fans
Wednesday: 37 interactions and 3700 fans
Thursday: 100 interactions and 3750 fans
Friday: 0 interactions and 3755 fans
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 2 interactions and 3783 fans
That leads to the following daily Engagement Rates:
Monday: 0.0057 (20/3500) or 0.57%
Tuesday: 0 (0/3590)
Wednesday: 0.01 (37/3700) or 1%
Thursday: 0.027 (100/3750) or 2.7%
Friday: 0
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 0.00053 (2/3783) or 0.053%
For the whole week, we get the average Engagement value of: (0.0057+0+0.01+0.027+0+0+0.00053)/7 = 0.0062 or 0.62% That means, in this week each fan interacted 0.0062 times with the posts of the page.
Total Reactions, Comments, Shares
Number of interactions on page-posts, that were published in selected time period.
Page Performance Index
The Page Performance Index (PPI) is a combination of engagement and growth. It combines both figures to provide an estimate value for a pages success and is based on the average growth and engagement values of all pages in our index.
We start by by calculating values between 0 and 100%, both for the Engagement and for the Growth. These values serve as a comparison to all other pages in our index.
A value will be set to 100%, if a page is part of the top 10% for this value, so 90% of the pages we are monitoring have a lower value.
Afterwards the engagement and growth are multiplied, the square root is extracted and the values scaled to 100 to present the top end.
Example: Page A has an average Growth rate of 3% and an Engagement rate of 0.2%. Both values are better than 90% of all pages in our index, which produces “temporary” values of 100% Growth and 100% Engagement. These temporary stand-in values multiplied equals 10,000 (100*100), the square root of 10,000 again is 100, which results in a PPI of 100%.
Ad-Value
The ad value is calculated by taking the estimated post reach and an average price for online advertisement into account (CPM).
It shows how much you had to spend with common online ads (outside from Facebook) to get as much as reach as you got on Facebook with the selected posts / time period. We use an estimated CPM of 12.00 € and multiply it with the estimated reach.
The ad value does NOT show the amount you’ve spent on Facebook into ads.
Note: You can set your own CPM for different post types if you’re the admin of a page and granted us insight rights. The Ad Value does not proportionally depend on the number of fans, but more important is the engagement.
Service Level
The service level shows how many userposts get a reaction by the page in form of a like, a comment or deletion. Reactions on “regular page posts” (published by the page itself) do not count.
Example: Page A got 20 userposts within the chosen period of time. 4 of them got a like, 5 a comment and 2 were deleted; 11 userposts got a reaction, which equals 55% ( 11 / 20 * 100 = 55).
Response Time
The Response Time describes how long a page needs to respond to userposts. For this value, we only take into account when a page makes a comment to a userpost. This is mainly because Facebook does not provide time values for likes and shares. We first calculate the response time for each userpost and then take the median of all posts for the selected period of time. The median is the value, that is exactly in the middle of all values, when you sort them.
Example: Page A from our previous example reacts within the following timeframes:
Userpost 1: commented by page after 10 minutes (0.17h),
Userpost 2: commented by page after 45 minutes (0.75h),
Userpost 3: commented by page after 2 hours (2h),
Userpost 4: commented by page after 20 hours (20h),
Userpost 5: commented by page after 53 minutes (0.88h)
If you sort all durations you get the following list: 0.17h, 0.75h, 0.88h, 2.00h, 20.00h
The value in the middle is 0.88h, so the Response Time is 0.88 hours.
Why don’t we take the average of all values? The average has two problems: First of all, the average is very prone to overevaluate outliers. In our example, one post was responded to only after 20 hours. If you calculated the average of the values, you would get to 4.76 hours. This is much higher than you would think fair if you looked at the other posts. Secondly, these 4.76 hours are a completely fictive value, whereas the 0.88 hours of the median can be clearly and correctly explained to any interested party (your boss or client) as: “Half of all userposts are responded to in less than 0.88 hours.”
Number of Fans
Number of fans, who liked the fanpage.
REACTIONS
Number of Likes
Number of likes on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Comments
Number of comments on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Shares
Number of shares on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Likes per Post
Number of likes on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Comments per Post
Number of comments on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Shares per Post
Number of shares on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Number of Reactions
Number of reactions on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Love
Number of love on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Wow
Number of wow on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Haha
Number of haha on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Sad
Number of sad on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Angry
Number of angry on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Number of Thankful
Number of thankful on posts, that were published in selected time period.
Reactions per Post
Number of reactions on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Love per Post
Number of love on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post
Wow per Post
Number of wow on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Haha per Post
Number of haha on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Sad per Post
Number of sad on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Angry per Post
Number of angry on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
Thankful per Post
Number of thankful on posts, that were published in selected time period, average per post.
FACEBOOK VIDEOS
Facebook-Videos
Number of Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Total amount of reactions, comments and shares on Facebook-Videos
Number of reactions, comments and shares on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of reactions on Facebook-Videos
Number of reactions on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of likes on Facebook-Videos
Number of likes on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of love on Facebook-Videos
Number of love on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of wow on Facebook-Videos
Number of wow on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of haha on Facebook-Videos
Number of haha on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of sad on Facebook-Videos
Number of sad on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of angry on Facebook-Videos
Number of angry on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of thankful on Facebook-Videos
Number of thankful on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of comments on Facebook-Videos
Number of comments on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
Number of shares on Facebook-Videos
Number of shares on Facebook videos, that were published in selected time period.
GROWTH
Average Weekly Growth
Difference in number of fans, comparison of the first and the last day of the selected time period, average per week.
Daily Growth (in %)
Difference in number of fans in %, comparison of the first and the last day of the selected time period, average per day.
Growth (absolute)
We distinguish between daily/weekly and absolute growth.
If not said otherwise, we use “Growth” as the average weekly growth rate of a Facebook page. The growth rate does not compare the number of fans at the beginning and the end of a period, but it answers the question “How much had the page to grow in a week on average to get from value A to value B?”. That makes sense, because it gives you a more “stable” impression about the growth without being too vulnerable to sudden spikes or extreme differences.
Example for the weekly growth rate:
Page A has 2000 fans, when two weeks ago it only had 500. Just the difference is 1500 fans or 300% of the starting value of 500. The calculation of the average weekly growth rate “only” equals to 100%. The page grew by 100% in the first week, which is 500 fans: 500 fans + 500 fans = 1000 fans. For the second week it’s another 100%: 1000 fans + 1000 fans = 2000 fans.
Example for the absolute growth:
To calculate the absolute growth, you have to note, that all values for „number of fans“, that are visible at Fanpage Karma, are based on the UTC time code from Facebook, at 0:00 am UTC, at the beginning of the day.
Page A had a growth of +712 fans in December 2016.
– On December 1, at the beginning of the day at 0:00 am UTC, the Page A had 106.191 fans.
– On December 31, at the beginning of the day at 0:00 am UTC, the Page A had 106.877 fans.
– On January 1, at the beginning of the day at 0:00 am UTC, the Page A had 106.903 fans.
Therefore, during the day of December 31, the Page A got 26 fans, at total 106.903, at 11:59 pm UTC.
To get the growth of December, we take the first value of December 1, at 0:00 am UTC (106.191) and the last value of December 31, at 11:59 pm UTC (106.903), the difference is 712.
Growth (absolute) per day
Difference in number of fans, comparison of the first and the last day of the selected time period, average per day.
Percentage increase since starting point
Difference in number of fans in %, comparison of the first and the last day of the selected time period.