Marketing Pulse Metrics
Ad Platform Metrics
Clicks
Total number of clicks on your ad.
In-platform metric name:
- Google: Clicks
- Meta Ads: Link Clicks
- LinkedIn Ads: Clicks
Impressions
Number of times your ad is shown.
In-platform metric name:
Google: Impressions
Meta Ads: Impressions
LinkedIn Ads: Impressions
CTR (click-through-rate)
Clicks divided by impressions. Indicates how compelling your ads are
Spend
Total spend over the selected time period.
In-platform metric name:
Google: Cost
Meta Ads: Amount Spent
LinkedIn Ads: Spend
CPC (cost-per-click)
Average amount you paid for each click.
CPM (cost-per-1,000-impressions)
Cost to deliver 1,000 impressions.
Conversion
Number of times users completed a desired action (like a form submission or purchase).
In-platform metric name:
Google: Conversions
Meta Ads: Results
LinkedIn Ads: Conversions
CPA (cost-per-acquisition)
Average amount you spent on each conversion (total spend divided by conversions)
Conversion Rate
Shows how often, on average, a click results in a conversion. Calcualted by dividing conversions by clicks.
Conversion Value
Conversion value (Conv. value) is the sum of conversion values for your conversions. This metric is useful only if you have it configured in each each ad platform.
In-platform metric name:
Google: All Conv. Value
Meta Ads: Results Value
LinkedIn Ads: Conversion Value
ROAS (return-on-ad-spend)
Revenue generated from ad spend (Conv. Value / Spend)
Reach
Number of unique users who saw your ad at least once.
In-platform metric name:
Google: Unique users (only available for video campaigns)
Meta Ads: Reach
LinkedIn Ads: Reach
Frequency
Average number of times each person saw your ad.
In-platform metric name:
Google: Avg. Impr. Freq. / User (only available in video campaigns)
Meta Ads: Frequency
LinkedIn Ads: Frequency
Views
The number of times your videos have been watched
In-platform metric name:
Google: Views
Meta Ads: ThruPlays
LinkedIn Ads: Video Views
View Rate
Views divided by impressions
CPV (cost-per-view)
Cost ÷ Video Views. For Meta it is cost-per-Thruplay
Organic Social
Post Impressions
The total number of times a specific post has been viewed. This may include multiple views by the same user, depending on the platform. Often called impressions.
In-platform metric name:
- Facebook: page_post_impressions and post_impressions
- Instagram: views
- LinkedIn: Total Impressions
Post Video Views
The total number of times a video post or reel has been watched.
In-platform metric name:
Facebook: post_video_views
Instagram: views (video only)
LinkedIn: 3+ second video view
Engagement
The number of clicks, reactions, saves, comments, shares and replies on your content
In-platform metric name:
Facebook: likes + comments + reactions + shares
Instagram: total interaction metrics (likes + saves + comments + shares
LinkedIn: organic clicks, likes, comments, and shares
Reach
The number of unique users who saw your post in their feed or timeline. Unlike views, reach only counts each user once, even if they see the post multiple times.
In-platform metric name:
Facebook: page_posts_impressions_organic_unique, post_impressions_organic_unique
Instagram: Reach
LinkedIn: Reach
Likes
The number of times users have clicked the "like" button on a post. A basic form of positive engagement or approval.
In-platform metric name:
Google: Total likes
Meta Ads: Total likes
LinkedIn Ads: Total likes
Followers
The total number of users who have chosen to subscribe to your profile or page to see your content regularly. A key audience size indicator.
In-platform metric name:
Facebook: Follows
Instagram: N/A (Instagram discontinued this metric in their API)
LinkedIn: Followers
Comments
The number of comments and replies on your content
In-platform metric name:
Google: Post comments
Meta Ads: Post comments
LinkedIn Ads: Post comments
Shares
The number of shares on your content
In-platform metric name:
Google: Post shares
Meta Ads: Post shares
LinkedIn Ads: Post shares
Page Engagement Rate
A percentage showing how engaged your audience is with your content, calculated as Engagements ÷ Impressions × 100%
Google Analytics
Sessions
A website visit that represents a period of time during which a user interacts with your website
Engaged Sessions
The number of sessions that lasted longer than 10 seconds, or had a conversion event, or had 2 or more screen or page views.
Engagement Rate
The percentage of engaged sessions (engaged sessions/sessions)
Average engagement time per session
User engagement duration per session.
Event count
Events measure user interactions on your website and app
Key events
Key events are the events that are important to your business, such as a purchase or a newsletter signup
Events per session
The average number of events per session.
Session key event rate
The percentage of sessions in which any key event was triggered
New users
The number of users who interacted with your site or launched your app for the first time
Returning users
Users who have initiated at least one previous session.
Total users
The total number of unique users who have logged an event.
Total revenue
The sum of revenue from purchases, subscriptions, and advertising (must have data layer setup to include ecommerce information)
MailChimp
Total Sends
Total number of emails sent (attempted deliveries) for the selected campaigns/time range.
Clicks
Unique subscriber link clicks within sent emails (Mailchimp). Excludes multiple clicks by the same recipient on the same link.
Opens
Number of unique recipients who opened the email at least once.
Open Rate
Unique opens divided by delivered emails (sends minus hard & soft bounces). Indicates subject line & audience resonance.
Order Rate
The percentage of successfully delivered emails that resulted in an order.
Bounces
Total number of bounced email addresses (hard + soft).
Click Rate
Unique subscriber clicks divided by delivered emails. Measures how well email content drives engagement.
Bounce Rate
(Hard + soft bounces) divided by total sends. High bounce rate can hurt deliverability.
Unsubscribe Rate
Unsubscribes divided by delivered emails. Track list fatigue and content relevance.
