Engagement Rate

social performance metric

01 Definition

Engagement Rate meaning: Interactions expressed as a percentage of an audience or exposure measure.

Engagement rate compares actions such as reactions comments shares saves or clicks with impressions reach followers or another denominator. The formula must be stated to make comparisons meaningful.

Also called

ER

Why it matters

How Engagement Rate fits the work

It normalizes interaction volume for more useful comparisons across posts or accounts.

In context

The carousel earned a 6 percent engagement rate by reach.

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Practical note

Do not combine rates that use different actions or denominators without labeling them.