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How to Read Your Link-in-Bio Analytics (and What to Do About Them)

Your link-in-bio analytics answer two questions: are people visiting your page, and are they tapping anything once they're there? The numbers are only useful if they change what you do, so for each one, here's what it means and what to try.

Views

What it is: how many times your page was opened. What it tells you: how well your profiles and posts send people to your page. Views go up when you mention your link, post something people want more of or point a new profile at it. What to do: compare views to your posting. If views jump on the days you say "link in bio", keep saying it. If they're flat even when you post a lot, your posts may not be giving people a reason to visit.

Clicks

What it is: how many times someone tapped a link on your page. What it tells you: whether the page itself is working. Lots of views with few clicks means people arrive and don't find what they came for. What to do: look at which links get the clicks. Usually one or two links get most of them. Make sure those are near the top and well titled.

Click rate

What it is: clicks divided by views. 300 clicks from 1,000 views is a 30% click rate. What it tells you: how good your page is at turning a visit into an action. There's no universal good number. It depends on your audience and what you offer. Your own trend matters more than anyone else's average. What to do: change one thing at a time (the top link, a title, the order) and see whether your click rate goes up over the next week or two.

Clicks per link

What it is: how many taps each button gets. What it tells you: what your audience actually wants from you, which isn't always what you expect. What to do:
  • Move the most-tapped links up.
  • Rewrite or remove links that almost nobody taps.
  • If a link you care about gets ignored, try a more specific title before giving up on it. See link titles that get clicks.

Week-over-week trends

What it is: this week's views and clicks compared with last week's. What it tells you: whether a change you made helped. A single day is noisy; a week is a fairer comparison. What to do: keep a short note of what you changed and when, so you can match changes to trends.

Sources

What it is: where visitors came from: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, a search engine, a direct visit. What it tells you: which platforms are worth your time for sending people to your page. A platform with a big following may send fewer visitors than a smaller one with a more engaged audience. What to do: put more effort into the platforms that send visitors, and check your bio link is set up on the ones that don't.

Devices, countries and busiest hours

What they are: whether visitors use phones or computers, where they are and when they visit. What they tell you: who your audience is. Nearly everyone on a phone? Make sure your linked pages work well on mobile. Lots of visitors in another time zone? Post when they're awake. What to do: schedule posts and launches for your busiest hours.

What LiteLinks shows on each plan

  • Free: how many taps your links get, on your dashboard.
  • Lite: views, clicks and week-over-week trends, your top links, a daily chart and CSV export.
  • Pro: everything in Lite, plus sources, devices, countries and busiest hours.
Compare plans for the full list.

Analytics stop at your page

Your link-in-bio analytics show the tap. They can't show what happened on the site the visitor went to. To see whether a tap turned into a sale or a signup, add UTM parameters to links that go to your own site.

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