Facebook Insights

Marketers are often confused by the data Facebook reports.

Here’s some definitions from Facebook on some of the potentially confusing terms we use:

“News Feed” & “Stream” Impressions

An impression happens every time a user sees any post from a Page, anywhere on Facebook.com or in a Facebook mobile app.

Technically, an impression is counted whenever a status update is rendered in the browser. So if someone visits their Facebook newsfeed or your fan page wall, then Facebook counts impressions for all the posts that they send to your browser, even if the user doesn’t scroll down the page to see them.

Facebook reports impressions in three ways:

Total Impressions-per-post

The total number of times that users have viewed this particular post.

Daily Total Impressions

Counts the total impressions generated on a given day across all your posts for a single page.

Daily Unique impressions

Counts the unique impressions generated on a given day across all your posts for a single page.


Pageviews

A pageview is counted when a user visits your fan page at facebook.com/pagename

Each tab visit is also counted as a pageview, so if a single user visits three custom tabs, it will count as three pageviews, but only one unique pageview for that day.

Facebook reports pageviews in two ways:

Daily Total Pageviews

Counts the total pageviews generated on a given day on your fan page, including your custom tabs.

Daily Unique Pageviews

Counts the unique pageviews generated on a given day on your fan page.


More Definitions:

Fan Sources

This is a breakdown of the number of Page likes from the most common places where people can like your Page. Note: this does not include all areas of Facebook where users can like your Page. (Unique Users)

Stream Views or Impressions

The number of times people (Fans and non-Fans) have viewed a News Feed story posted by your Page.

Internal Referral Sources

Daily Top referrers to your Page on Facebook (Total Count)

External Referral Sources

Daily Top referrering external domains sending traffic to your Page. (Total Count)

Active Users

The number of people who have interacted with or viewed your Page or its posts. This includes interactions from Fans and non-Fans. (Unique Users)

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