What’s a Good Click-Through Rate (CTR) for Facebook Ads?

As you figure out how to measure your Facebook Ads’ performance, you might hear a lot of advice about click-through rates (CTR). This number measures the percentage of an ad’s viewers who clicked on the ad’s primary link.

Nifty, right? While you want plenty of eyes on your ad, you also want the people who see it to act on it — that’s where the money comes from.

But, if you look at Facebook’s help page for CTR, something’s missing. It tells you what a CTR is, but not what a good CTR is.

That’s where we come in. We’ll explain what to expect as a good CTR so you can start setting benchmarks that matter.

What is the Average CTR for a Facebook Ad?

Before we talk about what makes a good CTR for Facebook Ads, let’s find out what an average CTR looks like. After all, if you’re doing better than most advertisers, that’s a great start.

Wordstream estimated an average CTR of 0.90% across industries in their 2017 survey of 256 businesses. Of course, the numbers they got varied by industry. Legal (1.61%) and retail (1.59%) had some of the highest CTRs, while employment/job training (0.47%) and finance/insurance (0.56%) had the lowest results.

What Does a Good Facebook Ad CTR Look Like?

It’s promising to have a higher-than-average CTR for your industry, but just because a CTR is average doesn’t mean that it’s good. So, what makes a good CTR? Let’s see what the experts get from their ads to learn what a professional expects.

Databox asked more than 30 marketing professionals about their average CTR to understand what a good Facebook Ads CTR is. They found that industry experts tend to get at least 2-5% — over half of the respondents said they had a CTR between those percentages.

You can think of that CTR as a floor, not a ceiling. Almost 15% of the marketers had a CTR of 10% or greater. CTRs can go far beyond the average if you know what you’re doing.

If you have a CTR lower than 2%, look at these results as an opportunity. These professionals can earn high CTRs, so you can, too.

How Do I Get a Good Facebook Ads CTR?

What can you do to improve your CTR? Regardless of your CTR, you can aim for a higher number by looking at your ad’s:

Targeting: Do you target people who will actually want to click on your ad?
Visuals: Does your ad have an image or video that catches viewers’ attention?
Copy: Does your ad copy make a compelling point?

Knowing the right direction to take these ad elements takes two actions — research and testing. Research your customers and market to guide your targeting and creative, then test different components against each other to learn what works best.

‘Not Secure’ Google Update for HTTPS Certificates (2018)

You need an SSL certificate

This is big for all business owners running a website for their business. Effectively, Google will be telling all users of its Chrome web browser that a site is not using a Secure SSL certificate and therefore is not a secure website to browse or enter information into.

I don’t know about you, but I spend my life online and the thought of entering details into a website which is not secure frightens me. I mean we do it all the time, as it’s not flagged up to us, but from July this year every potential visitor of your site, using Google Chrome will be given a message before they enter your site.

Massive increase in friction to visiting your site.

This will coincide with the release of Chrome 68.

Along with this they have announced its Speed Roll-out in July, confirming back in January that page speed will be a considerable ranking factor in where your website sits in the search engine results page.

We’ve known for a long time that speed is massive to Google but now they’ve actually put it on paper!

So, what can you do to stop visitors being put-off coming to your site?

Get an SSL certificate installed on your website! The process is relatively simple, but there are a vast number of pitfalls you could stumble into so I would suggest you speak to us or your existing website provider and ask them what the cost will be to do this for you.