Analytics are the key to understanding which ads work and which don't. Facebook Analytics is a robust tool that allows marketers to analyze user interaction with advanced target paths and sales funnels for Facebook ads.

Facebook Analytics is a free tool, but it is designed for use with Facebook ads that involve costs.
How to Analyze and Improve Facebook Advertising ?
In the past, you could only see the last touch point in your funnels on Facebook. For example, if someone interacts with seven of your posts, but bought them on the eighth interaction, only the final interaction will be credited to the conversion. Now you can see the full interaction path to conversion, not just the last touch point.

Google Analytics works with Facebook to measure the conversions of your Facebook ads. In other words, keep track of where people come from before they land on your website. You can also use Google Analytics to track the actions people take on your website. These actions can include:
  • Subscribing to an email list.
  • Viewing product pages.
  • Adding to their shopping cart.
  • Viewing your landing page.
The aim is to incorporate this knowledge into your advertising via Facebook and to track your return on investment for the ads themselves.

Google Data Studio is a great way to report and visualize your social media campaign. With this tool you can easily create up-to-date reports on your website, on Facebook or in other social media marketing campaigns. Google Data Studio is free. You can share reports with customers and team members, and import data from multiple sources for a holistic, 360-degree view of your digital activities.

To start using Facebook Analytics yourself, all you have to do is select your Facebook pixel that will provide you with data. You then need to create an Event Source Group (ESG) that connects your Facebook business page and Facebook pixel so that you can draw from more data sources like a messenger bot. The dashboard shows real-time aggregated data from all of your sources and you can see how they work together.
How to Analyze and Improve Facebook Advertising ?
During this process, it is important to understand how Facebook Attribution works. When people interact with your Facebook ads, their actions - watching a video, visiting your website, etc. - are recorded. Every time your ad leads to a conversion, Facebook credits or credits the ad in the Ad Manager so you can see how well your campaign is doing and see if you are achieving your goals.

If you have a campaign that works well, it's time to get more customers. You can do this by setting up your Ad Manager dashboard to ensure that you are viewing the most current data. The most ideal time slot is in the past seven days. From there, you can see which ad sets cause high customer acquisition costs. Interrupt all sets of ads with cost per result that are at least twice the expected cost.

The best way to monitor the performance of your Facebook ads is to run reports through the Facebook Ads Manager. The reports show which ads are best for achieving your goals and which fall behind. By consistently analyzing your campaign performance, you can quickly see fluctuations in campaign metrics that indicate that updates need to be tested, or uncover successful Facebook ads that you should scale.

By analyzing four key metrics - cost, relevance, frequency and cost per mille or CPR - you can determine and evaluate the performance of your campaigns and the ads they contain.

Cost per Result

This cost metric doesn't reflect your total spend or the amount spent on each of your campaigns. Cost per result is based on your campaign goal and ad set optimization. If you set a daily budget and your campaigns don't scale and your cost per result goes down, your campaign results will increase.

Relevance Score

The next metric to consider is relevance. A relevance factor is a rating of 1 to 10 that Facebook gives for each of your ads. This score reflects how the ad fits the audience and how users respond to your ad. This metric can only be viewed at the ad level of your campaigns.

As your relevance rating increases over time, your cost per result and campaign performance tend to decrease. On the other hand, if your relevance rating decreases, the cost per result increases, indicating that your campaign performance is decreasing.

Frequency

The third metric to consider is frequency. Frequency is a delivery metric that shows the average number of times someone saw your ad. Their frequency always starts at 1 and increases with time as you spend more of your campaign budget and reach more of your target audience.

If your frequency increases to 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., you will find that this affects your cost per result and relevance rating. The higher your frequency, the more people will see the same Facebook ads.

CPM

Finally, take a look at CPM, an acronym for cost-per-mille. This is your cost per 1,000 impressions. As your frequency increases and you reach more audiences, your CPM increases. This means that you now cost more for 1,000 impressions than before. This affects cost, relevance and frequency metrics.