Instagram — Story engagement — Story engagement

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Social profiles > Instagram > Story engagement > Story engagement

Why use this board

Use this board to analyze Instagram Story performance: taps, exits, replies, and engagement patterns to refine your Stories cadence and creative hooks.

Board controls

  • Select data source: Select Owned Instagram Profiles or Profile Labels. In order to use another data source type, please delete the current one and add a different data source type.

  • Adaptive filters: Open Filter in the toolbar to narrow posts by Content Label, Sentiment, Media Type, Content Type, Full text, Advanced filter, or Origin of content. Active filters appear as chips below the toolbar; remove a chip to clear that filter.

  • Aggregated by: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year.

  • Date range: Defaults to the last 30 days. The board subtitle shows the active range when available.

Metrics on this board

  • [Engagements] — Top stories by engagement

  • [Impressions] — Top stories by engagement

  • [Reach] — Top stories by engagement

  • [Completion Rate] — Top stories by engagement

  • Story reach — Average story reach

  • Story media views — Story media views

  • Story impressions — Story impressions by media type trend

  • Number of stories — Stories by media type

  • Story media views — Story media views by media type trend

  • Average completion rate — Average story completion rate

  • Story media views — Story media views by media type

  • Media type — Story impressions by media type

  • Story completion rate — Story completion rate by media type

  • Story impressions — Number of story impressions

  • Story replies — Number of story replies

Widgets

Top stories by engagement

What it measures: A detail view of the best-performing stories based on the total number of engagements among stories published by selected profiles during the selected date range. Note: As of April 21, 2025, Meta will no longer provide new data for Instagram video views and impressions due to metric deprecations. New data will be replaced by the Media views metric, which maps views into impressions and video views. Please refer to Media views for exact figures as shown in Instagram after this date. Shown as ranked content cards — use it to see which individual posts drove the metric.

Metrics: [Engagements], [Impressions], [Reach], [Completion Rate]

Visualization: Content card

Average story reach

What it measures: The sum of lifetime reach for stories published during the selected date range, divided by the number of stories from the same period. This metric does not count user-generated content. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Story reach

Visualization: Value with change

Story media views

What it measures: The total number of times content in Instagram stories published by the selected profiles during the selected date range was played or displayed to a user over the story’s lifetime. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Story media views

Visualization: Value with change

Story impressions by media type trend

What it measures: An overview of the the number of users who viewed an Instagram story that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by media type (e.g. images, carousels, videos) and story publication date. Note: As of April 21, 2025, Meta will no longer provide new data for Instagram video views and impressions due to metric deprecations. New data will be replaced by the Media views metric, which maps views into impressions and video views. Please refer to Media views for exact figures as shown in Instagram after this date. Shown as stacked bars — each segment shows a category's share of the total; use it to see composition, not just the headline number.

Metrics: Story impressions

Visualization: Stacked bar chart

Stories by media type

What it measures: The distribution of Instagram stories published during the selected date range, segregated by media type (e.g. images, carousels, videos). Shown as stacked bars — each segment shows a category's share of the total; use it to see composition, not just the headline number.

Metrics: Number of stories

Visualization: Stacked bar chart

Story media views by media type trend

What it measures: An overview of the total number of times content in Instagram stories published by the selected profiles during the selected date range was played or displayed to a user over the story’s lifetime, segregated by media type and publication date. Shown as stacked bars — each segment shows a category's share of the total; use it to see composition, not just the headline number.

Metrics: Story media views

Visualization: Stacked bar chart

Average story completion rate

What it measures: The average percentage of times a story was watched in full during its lifetime. Instagram considers a story completed when the impression was not interrupted by an exit, tap back, or tap forward. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Average completion rate

Visualization: Value with change

Story media views by media type

What it measures: The distribution of the total number of times content in Instagram stories published by the selected profiles during the selected date range was played or displayed to a user over the story’s lifetime. Data is segregated by media type. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Story media views

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Story impressions by media type

What it measures: The distribution of the number of users who viewed an Instagram story that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by media type (e.g. images, carousels, videos). Note: As of April 21, 2025, Meta will no longer provide new data for Instagram video views and impressions due to metric deprecations. New data will be replaced by the Media views metric, which maps views into impressions and video views. Please refer to Media views for exact figures as shown in Instagram after this date. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Media type

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Story completion rate by media type

What it measures: The percentage of times a story impression was not interrupted by an exit, tap back, or tap forward. Data is segragated by publication date and media type (image, video). Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Story completion rate

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Number of story impressions

What it measures: The sum of lifetime story impressions for the set of stories published during the selected date range. Note: As of April 21, 2025, Meta will no longer provide new data for Instagram video views and impressions due to metric deprecations. New data will be replaced by the Media views metric, which maps views into impressions and video views. Please refer to Media views for exact figures as shown in Instagram after this date. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Story impressions

Visualization: Value with change

Number of story replies

What it measures: The sum of replies for the set of stories published during the selected date range. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Story replies

Visualization: Value with change