Which metrics matter most to your business?

kara_susvilla
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

To determine the success of your content, you have to set goals and track the metrics that make the most sense for your business. This could be page views, conversions, and so on. Keeping this in mind, which metrics matter most to your business and why? Tell us in the comments below.

 

*To learn more about this, check out the Measuring and Analyzing Your Content lesson via HubSpot Academy. 

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SLevesque
Contributor

Which metrics matter most to your business?
I dont have a business at the moment, but if I were just starting, I would think the metrics that would matter most would be Reach, traffic sources, bounce rate, clickthrough rate then the conversion rates.

RGarcia14
Member

As a student without a business yet, I think that it's important to focus one customer acquisition and cost, lifetime value, and engagement rates, as I think this will all help on overall performance and growth of a business. 

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ONGUTI
Contributor

The most relevant metrics are organic lead generation, conversion, and close rate.

I want to ensure a steady flow of prospects and customers.

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JVillarroelRo0
Member

I think it is impressions and engagement and clickthrough rate

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BBrillantesJr
Contributor

reach

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LilyRJ
Member

For my future business, in my opinion, both 'Social Media' and 'Conversion' metrics will matter the greatest to me. As someone who would like to dive into the streetwear business (and HEAVILY market myself online as a ton of my favorite brands do), I will need to have a strong understanding of said business proceedings on a digital scale, both through online sales and social media impressions. We live in a. World nowadays where people cannot manage to get OFF of their phones, so I believe that as a business owner... you should take advantage of that! Especially if it costs you nothing.

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Chenjinyang
Member

Customer Satisfaction: Direct feedback or satisfaction scores help evaluate overall performance and user experience.

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SMahrib
Member

CPA and CPC

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K_Wangari
Participant

Which metrics matter most to your business?

Conversions: Ths tells me if people are doing what I want them to do, like buying stuff or signing up.

Engagement Rate: This shows if people like my stuff, share it, and comment on it.

Bounce Rate: This tells me how many people leave after seeing just one page, which shows if my content is interesting and good quality.

 

 

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VLowe
Contributor
  • CPA for lead generation
  • CPC to increase traffic and conversions on the website
  • ROAS for social media engagement and buying.
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PMishra02
Participant

To measure the success of your content, you need to focus on the metrics that align with your business goals. Whether it’s page views, conversion rates, customer engagement, or lead generation, the key is tracking what drives real value for your business.

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fkaada
Contributor
  • CPC for cost-effective lead gen.
  • ROAS for campaigns and media buying 
  • CPA plus CLTV for long-term business positioning
GMaia3
Participant

Social media engagement and click though

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JApezan
Participant

As a freelancer, important metrics to my career success include: Traffic, engagement, and conversion.

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Silvinf
Member

As a business owner and content creator, there are several metrics I can use as benchmarks, such as tracking content growth through likes, comments, and shares. Additionally, I evaluate how people respond to the product and how many are interested in the products we sell

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AStewart91
Member

Right now I am mainly a "content creator" so my most important metrics are engagement on social media. Specifically likes, comments and shares.

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ASchiffer4
Member

Open, then click rates are most that matters to the ones in charge of our company. I use both percentages and track month to month (due to the seasons) and compare year over year. However, we have seen inverse ralationships between high click rates and low conversions. 

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Papiinson
Member

As a content writer, I find that tracking page views, engagement metrics like comments and social shares, and SEO performance is crucial, as they help me measure the reach, impact and visibility of my work. 

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sabisidro
Member

As a content marketer, my metrics to track, measure, and analyze include web page traffic. More specifically, page views, unique page views, traffic sources, bounce rate, referrals, and keyword ranking.

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CoCoAnTe
Member

which metrics matters most in your business ?

it's page views that matters most at the moment, because we care about how long people stay on our website and our social media platforms. So page views at the moment 

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Drip2Hard
Member

For us, it's the cost per lead. If we're spending money to get content in front of people, then we want to convert them to either visit our website or engage with the content itself. It helps build our future lookalike audiences while also converting leads—creating two benefits for the price of one. 

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