Get started with Hootsuite Analytics

Tracking and analyzing your social media performance can help you get better at social. It can help you understand which social networks work best for your brand as well as which types of posts grab attention, drive engagement, and grow your audience.

Keeping an eye on your social metrics can also show you where you can improve engagement and grow your audience. For example, data can show you the best times to post based on when your audience is online and interacting with your content. You can also see which types of posts your audience finds most engaging. You can then analyze them, figure out why they worked, and use that information to create better posts.

Tip: Not sure what social media analytics is, how you should use it, or why? Check out What is Social Media Analytics? Everything You Need to Know.

About analytics in Hootsuite

Hootsuite helps you track and measure your results on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and TikTok. Whether you want to identify your most engaging posts, see how your campaigns are performing, or uncover opportunities to get your brand in front of more people, Hootsuite has you covered with insights and reports to help drive your social strategy.

Before you begin

If this is your first time using analytics in Hootsuite, make sure you connect your social accounts to Hootsuite. We also recommend creating and publishing a few posts on your social networks and accounts. Find out more about getting started with Hootsuite.

How to get started with Analytics

Use the following links to familiarize yourself with Analytics and start reviewing your social results. A great way to explore Analytics in Hootsuite is to check out our demo reports. You can find these when you select Create a report, and then select Demo reports in Analytics.

Open Hootsuite and go to Analytics.

Review your most successful posts

You can easily find out which of your posts on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok got the most comments, reactions, likes, or clicks. Go to the Post performance view to see how your audience interacted with your social content.

Learn how to review your overall post performance.

Find out when to post

When, exactly, is the best time to post on social media? If you’ve spent time researching the topic, you already know there are some generic, suggested times to post for each industry and social network. But chances are you’ll be more successful if you base this decision on your own data, data that tells you exactly when your audience is online and more likely to notice and interact with your posts.

Go to the Best time to publish view to get recommendations on the optimal times to post on every social network. We personalize recommendations for you based on your past post performance and when your audience is online.

Learn how to get your best times to post.

View your social score and insights

Visit your Social score and insights in Analytics to gauge your progress and identify what's driving your results on social. Your social performance score provides a weekly snapshot of your social media performance on your Facebook Pages, LinkedIn Pages, or Instagram business accounts. In addition, you'll get insights and recommendations to help you improve and strengthen your social media presence.

Learn all about your social score.

Create a report

While the previous options show you the overall performance of your posts, you can get better insights using pre-built template reports to track your performance by goal or by social network. You can also create your own custom reports and decide which metrics you want to add and analyze. Select Create a report to get started.

Learn how to create a report.

Compare results across time frames

Once you create a report, you can analyze trends over time or compare results across time frames (for example, compare engagement on Facebook posts from last week to the previous week).

Learn how to track your results over time.

Customize your shortcuts

Create report shortcuts so you can quickly access the reports that you monitor often. For example, if you know you’re checking engagement results for your Facebook Pages once or several times a day, you can create a Facebook engagement report, and then pin it to your navigation.

Learn how to manage your reports.

Share a report or schedule an automatic export to your email

Share results with your team or schedule email exports to automatically email you and your team the latest report.

Learn how to share a report.

Next steps

Check out Measure social media success with Hootsuite for guidance, examples, and tips on how to get more out of Hootsuite analytics.