LinkedIn — Overview — Time comparison

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LinkedIn Pages

These boards report on LinkedIn Pages (company and showcase pages connected in Emplifi), not personal LinkedIn member profiles.

Why use this board

Use this board to compare LinkedIn profile metrics between two date ranges; explain what improved, declined, or held steady in weekly and monthly reports.

Board controls

  • LinkedIn Pages: Select a LinkedIn Page.

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

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

  • Compare period: Previous period, Previous day, Previous week, Previous month, Previous quarter, Previous year. Default: Previous period.

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

  • Interactions: Interactions, Interactions per 1k followers.

Metrics on this board

  • Impressions engagement rate — Impressions engagement rate per media type

  • Average engagements — Average engagements trend

  • Engagements — Engagements trend

  • Average engagements — Average engagements per media type

  • Followers — Number of followers

  • Followers growth — Followers growth trend

  • Followers growth — Followers growth

  • Number of followers — Followers trend

  • Average engagements — Average number of engagements

  • Content impressions — Number of impressions

  • Impressions engagement rate — Impressions engagement rate

  • Number of posts — Content trend

  • Interactions — Interactions trend

  • Interactions per 1k followers — Interactions trend

  • Impressions engagement rate — Impressions engagement rate trend

  • Posts by media type — Content by media type

  • Impressions per media type — Impressions per media type

  • Content impressions — Impressions trend

  • Interactions — Interactions by type

  • Interactions per 1k followers — Interactions by type

  • Interactions — Number of Interactions

  • Interactions per 1k followers — Number of Interactions

  • Engagements — Number of engagements

  • Engagements — Engagements per media type

  • Number of posts — Total content

Widgets

Impressions engagement rate per media type

What it measures: The distribution of impressions engagement rates, segregated by media type (e.g. image, video, link, etc.). Impressions engagement rate refers to the percentage of users who engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, divided by the number of content impressions. Note: This metric shows organic data only. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Impressions engagement rate

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Average engagements trend

What it measures: An overview of the average number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by post publication date. Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Average engagements

Visualization: Bar trend

Engagements trend

What it measures: An overview of the total number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by publication date. Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Engagements

Visualization: Bar trend

Average engagements per media type

What it measures: The distribution of the average number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by media type (e.g. image, video, link, etc.). Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Average engagements

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Number of followers

What it measures: The total number of users who are following selected profiles 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: Followers

Visualization: Value with change

Followers growth trend

What it measures: An overview of the net increase or decrease of the total number of users who are following a profile during the selected date range, segregated by date. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Followers growth

Visualization: Bar trend

Followers growth

What it measures: The net increase or decrease of the total number of users who are following a profile 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: Followers growth

Visualization: Value with change

Followers trend

What it measures: An overview of the number of users who are following selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by date. Shown as a trend over time — use it to spot spikes, drops, and seasonality across the selected period.

Metrics: Number of followers

Visualization: Line chart

Average number of engagements

What it measures: The average number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range. Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Average engagements

Visualization: Value with change

Number of impressions

What it measures: The total number of times posts published during the selected date range were viewed, segregated by media type (image, video, link, etc.). Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Content impressions

Visualization: Value with change

Impressions engagement rate

What it measures: The percentage of users who engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, divided by the number of content impressions. Note: This metric shows organic data only. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Impressions engagement rate

Visualization: Value with change

Content trend

What it measures: An overview of posts published during the selected date range, segregated by publication date. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Number of posts

Visualization: Bar trend

Interactions trend

What it measures: Post-level metrics show data for posts published during a selected date range. Regardless of when an engagement happened, all post data is aggregated and displayed for the day the post was published. This means it can include data about engagement that occurred even after the selected date range. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Interactions, Interactions per 1k followers

Visualization: Bar trend

Impressions engagement rate trend

What it measures: An overview of the percentage of users who engaged with a post that was published by selected pages during the selected date range, divided by the number of content impressions. Data is segregated by post publication date. Note: This metric shows organic data only. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Impressions engagement rate

Visualization: Bar trend

Content by media type

What it measures: The distribution of posts published during the selected date range, segregated by media type (image, video, link, etc.). Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Posts by media type

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Impressions per media type

What it measures: The total number of times a post published during the selected date range was viewed, segregated by media type (image, video, link, etc.). Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Impressions per media type

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Impressions trend

What it measures: An overview lifetime impressions for posts published during the selected date range, segregated by publication date. This metric does not count user-generated content. Shown as bars over time — use it to compare day-by-day or period-by-period volume and spot spikes.

Metrics: Content impressions

Visualization: Bar trend

Interactions by type

What it measures: Post-level metrics show data for posts published during a selected date range. Regardless of when an engagement happened, all post data is aggregated and displayed for the day the post was published. This means it can include data about engagement that occurred even after the selected date range. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Interactions, Interactions per 1k followers

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Number of Interactions

What it measures: Post-level metrics show data for posts published during a selected date range. Regardless of when an engagement happened, all post data is aggregated and displayed for the day the post was published. This means it can include data about engagement that occurred even after 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: Interactions, Interactions per 1k followers

Visualization: Value with change

Number of engagements

What it measures: The total number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range. Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as a KPI with period-over-period change — use it to see whether the metric is rising or falling.

Metrics: Engagements

Visualization: Value with change

Engagements per media type

What it measures: The distribution of the number of times users engaged with a post that was published by selected profiles during the selected date range, segregated by media type (e.g. image, video, link, etc.). Note: This metric shows organic only. Shown as a ranked horizontal bar chart — longer bars mean higher values; use it to compare many categories at once.

Metrics: Engagements

Visualization: Horizontal bar chart

Total content

What it measures: The sum of all posts 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: Number of posts

Visualization: Value with change