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Five counters, three ratios, no score. This page will not tell you whether an audience was bought: it sets side by side the numbers a profile already shows, names the signals we look at, and lets you hold an account against itself. That much you can do without us; the rest needs a history.
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The five counters
Open the profile and write down what it shows: followers, accounts followed, number of posts. Then pick one recent post — neither the biggest hit nor the newest — and take its likes and its comments, both from the same post, or their ratio means nothing. Where a counter has been hidden, leave that box empty rather than guessing at it.
What these counters give
Comments per 100 likes
This reading is waiting on its counters: nothing shows until they are filled in.
Hold it against other posts on the same account, and against what that account was doing six months ago. One figure on its own says nothing: what shows is the gap from one post to the next.
Following per follower
This reading is waiting on its counters: nothing shows until they are filled in.
Hold it against what the same account showed before its last jump in followers, and against accounts you know well.
Posts
This reading is waiting on its counters: nothing shows until they are filled in.
Hold it against how long the account has been open: it is the history, not the total, that says whether an audience had time to build.
comments ÷ likes × 100 · following ÷ followers
The signals we look at
- Following against followers
- Where to look: the two counters at the top of the profile, one against the other.A bought audience: padding a follower count by following thousands of accounts and then unfollowing them leaves an account that both follows and is followed heavily.
- A large audience sitting still
- Where to look: the likes and comments on a recent post, set against the size of the account.A bought audience: followers that never react. The follower counter climbs, the interaction counters stay where they were.
- Engagement that does not add up
- Where to look: that same post, when its interactions run far past what the account usually gets.A bought audience: bought likes, or engagement pods where members comment on each other's posts. Engagement climbs while the audience stays the same size.
- A manufactured comment-to-like ratio
- Where to look: the comments themselves as much as their number — emoji only, interchangeable compliments, the same handles under every post.A bought audience: the two counters are bought separately, and their ratio stops resembling the one on posts the account made earlier.
- A missing bio
- Where to look: the lines under the profile name.A bought audience: an account opened to be resold has nothing to say about itself. On its own this signal proves nothing — plenty of very good accounts have no bio.
- Too little history to judge
- Where to look: the post counter, and the date on the oldest posts.A bought audience: followers can be bought in a day, a history cannot. An account with many followers and very few posts has not had the time to earn them.
- A follower jump with no jump in reach
- Where to look: your own earlier notes, or a dated screenshot — this signal reads over time, not on today's page.A bought audience: followers arrive all at once and views do not follow. A viral day lifts both; a purchase lifts only one.
Reading the three ratios
None of these three numbers is a score, and none of them has a right value. They do one job: give you a point of comparison inside a single account. The comments-to-likes ratio is worth redoing on several posts from the same profile — the one that breaks the pattern is the one worth a second look, and you are the only person who can build that series in a few minutes.
Following against followers works the same way, except that it compares over time rather than from post to post. An account that followed few people and now follows thousands has changed its method; it is the change that reads, not today's figure. Without an earlier reading it teaches you almost nothing — which is a reason to write it down today.
The post counter, finally, divides by nothing. It is there to remind you that the other two readings are only worth as much as the history behind them: on an account that opened last month, a ratio computes perfectly well and rests on almost nothing.
None of these three numbers tells you whether an audience is real. They tell you what the counters show today, and no more — which is already enough to know which account deserves a second look.
Why there is no benchmark here
The question that turns up at this point is whether the figure is any good, and this page does not answer it. That is not caution. A benchmark that does not say which accounts it was measured on, or when, or what it divided by turns against whoever leans on it: published here, it would be copied without its conditions, and it would rule out excellent creators as readily as it would wave through padded accounts.
There is a second reason, and it flatters us less: a published limit tells anyone who wants to cheat exactly what to avoid. An account that knows the line stops just short of it, and the signal stops signalling anything at all. The signals themselves are named, and that costs nothing: knowing what gets looked at helps nobody cheat, whereas knowing where tolerance ends would.
What a benchmark really needs fits into one sentence: genuinely comparable accounts, measured at the same time, divided by the same thing. Until then, an account is held against itself — that is free, and it is what this page is for.
An account is not measured against an average found in an article. It is measured against itself, and then against genuinely comparable accounts.
What these ratios cannot prove
- That an audience was bought. None of these ratios shows it, and even the clearest signal only points at an account worth a closer look.
- That the followers are yours to reach. An account can have nothing but real followers and an audience that will never buy from you: those are two different questions.
- That the engagement is spontaneous. Bought likes, engagement pods and a real community all produce the same counters.
- That the account looked like this yesterday. Everything on a profile is a snapshot; these signals read over time, and a single reading is not a trend.
- How much to pay. None of these numbers is a price, and a clean account is expensive or cheap for entirely other reasons.
Knowing whether an audience is real
The three ratios above you can redo by hand on any profile. What cannot be done by hand is placing them: following an account day after day, and holding it against genuinely similar accounts. We write down its counters on every pass and keep the dated series — that series is what separates a steady climb from a single step up, and it is nowhere on the profile page. Reach, by contrast, is something no plan gets: it lives in the creator's private insights and is never public, exactly as our engagement-rate page says.
That is the work the product does: it reads these signals over time, says which one fired and why, and refuses to conclude when it has nothing to go on. Two steps, and we keep them apart rather than blurring them. A free account gives you the search, and on every creator it finds an engagement rate divided by views rather than by followers — the very ratio this page makes you work out by hand. Audience quality and growth history, by contrast, need a paid plan: they are built from repeated readings, not from the snapshot in front of you.
The arithmetic on this page is yours; the verdict needs a history nobody reads by eye.