Instagram Post Insights
Updated
You can leverage Instagram insights to learn more about overall trends across your followers and understand how your content is performing with your audience. You can also view insights for specific posts, stories, videos, reels and live videos that you've created to see how each one performed and how people engaged with them.
Post Insights Metrics
Metric | Description | Paid/Organic |
Instagram Post Comments | The number of comments that your Instagram post has received. | Organic |
Instagram Post Comments Trend | The number of comments that your Instagram post has received. This is a trend metric, presenting a value by the Date of engagement. | Organic |
Instagram Post Likes | The number of likes that your Instagram post has received. | Organic |
Instagram Post Likes Trend | The number of likes that your Instagram post has received. This is a trend metric, presenting a value by the Date of engagement. | Organic |
Instagram Video Views | The number of times your video has been viewed. | Organic |
Instagram Video Views Trend | The number of times your video has been viewed. This metric should be used in conjunction with the dimension Date. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Impressions* | The total number of times the media object has been seen, applicable only for business profiles. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Engagement* | This engagement metric can now be used for both Reels and Non-Reels excluding Stories, as they are provided through the same endpoint. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Reach* | The total number of unique accounts that have seen the media object, applicable only for business profiles. This also includes Reach for IG Reels. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Saved* | The total number of unique accounts that have saved the media object, applicable only for business profiles. This also includes Saves for IG Reels. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Story Exits* | The number of times someone exited the story, applicable only for business profiles. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Story Replies* | The total number of replies to the story, applicable only for business profiles. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Story Taps Forward* | The total number of taps to see this story's next photo or video, applicable only for business profiles. | Organic |
Instagram Business Post Story Taps Back* | The total number of taps to see this story's previous photo or video, applicable only for business profiles. | Organic |
Completion Rate | The number of people that watched your entire Story. This is calculated by dividing the total number of impressions on the last segment in your story by the total number of impressions on the first segment. Then, the result is multiplied by 100 to turn it into a percentage. | Organic |
NOTE: Natively Likes, Comments, Saves & video-views count will be the sum of Organic and Paid counts, however, channel API provides only Organic Likes.