Social Media Engagement Rate Calculator

Engagement rate measures how actively your audience interacts with your content relative to your follower count. It's the key metric for evaluating content quality, audience connection, and social media performance beyond vanity metrics like follower count. Worked example: a reel seen by 48,000 accounts that collects 2,880 likes, 190 comments and 50 shares has 3,120 interactions ÷ 48,000 reach = 6.5% engagement. Anything above 4% on Instagram or 6% on TikTok beats the median brand account.

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   Enter the total likes on your post or average across posts

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   Add the total number of comments received

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   Include shares, retweets, or saves as applicable

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   Step 4

   Input your total follower count

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   Calculator computes engagement rate and provides performance rating

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  Instagram average engagement: 1-3%, 3-6% is good, above 6% is excellent

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  Engagement rate typically decreases as follower count increases

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  Comments and shares are more valuable than likes for algorithm ranking

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  Calculate engagement rate per post and as an account average

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  Track engagement trends over time rather than individual post variations

• Comparing Across Different Platforms

• Ignoring Follower Quality

• Not Accounting for Reach

• Obsessing Over Single Posts