Social Media KPIs & Metrics
Explore the top metrics and KPIs for modern social media marketing teams
What are social media KPIs?
Social media KPIs are values used by digital marketing and social media marketers to measure the performance of social media campaigns.
Social media marketing is a multi-channel strategy. Marketing teams use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest to share content. Multi-channel marketing can make it challenging to track the success of your campaigns since the results are spread across multiple accounts. To maximize your marketing efforts, it’s important to understand your social media performance by tracking your metrics and KPIs on a social media dashboard.
Why do I need a social media KPIs dashboard?
A social media dashboard allows marketers to monitor performance across social platforms and gather the necessary insights and information about how users engage with your brand on social media.
Collecting and analyzing your social media metrics and KPIs allows marketing teams to identify areas of improvement, plan strategic campaigns, and engage with users meaningfully. When you track your content engagement metrics, such as likes, shares, and comments, you have insight into whether or not your audience is engaging with your message and if their engagement positively impacts your marketing campaign.
Best social media marketing KPIs and metrics
The top Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for modern social media teams to track:
- Likes
- Engagement
- Followers growth
- Traffic conversions
- Social interactions
- Social sentiment
- Social shares
- Web visitors by channel source
- Social visitors conversion rate
Discover more inspiration for top social media marketing metrics that you and your team can track in PowerMetrics.
How do you measure social media ROI?
Return on marketing investment, or ROMI, is a monetary measure to gauge the success of your marketing campaigns. Track your return on marketing investment alongside your social media marketing metrics on a dashboard. Dashboards bring all of your important data together in one place. Monitor your social media campaigns, track the metrics that allow you to analyze your performance, identify trends, and make real-time decisions based on the results.
For more examples and templates of KPIs, see below.
Social Media Metrics & KPIs
Social Shares
Measure the amount of times your content has been shared on social media platforms.
Facebook Likes
Measure the total number of Facebook users that like your company page.
Facebook Page Likes
Understand the effectiveness of your company’s Facebook page.
People Talking About This on Facebook
Understand how people are engaging with your page.
Followers Growth KPI
Track your follower growth against your goals on a social media dashboard
Instagram Followers
Track the total number of Instagram accounts following your profile and measure audience growth over time.
Key Social
How effective is your website at building an audience?
New Followers
How many social media followers are your campaigns attracting?
Social Events
Monitor interactions on your social channels to understand audience engagement and grow your reach.
Social Media Dashboard Examples
- Social Media
Social Media Metrics Dashboard
Track performance across every social platform in one reliable view — no tab-switching, no manual data wrangling.
- Social Media
YouTube Analytics Dashboard
Track views, watch time, and subscriber growth in a clear YouTube dashboard.
- Social Media
X (Twitter) Analytics Dashboard
Boost your X (Twitter) performance by monitoring key engagement metrics in a dashboard.
- Social Media
Instagram Dashboard
An Instagram dashboard is a visual reporting tool that displays the metrics and KPIs for your Instagram account.
- Social Media
Facebook Analytics Dashboard
A Facebook Analytics dashboard is a visual reporting tool that displays the metrics and KPIs related to your Facebook Page.
- Social Media
LinkedIn Analytics Dashboard
Measure your organic LinkedIn content strategy.
- Social Media
Social Media Performance Dashboard
Unify your social channels and track what matters most.
- Social Media
Facebook Ads Dashboard
Track campaign performance, ad spend, and ROI with a Facebook Ads dashboard built for your whole team.
- Social Media
LinkedIn Ads Dashboard
Track your ad spend, engagement, and campaign performance in one place.