Network analyzer: the people this report saw around you
Not a contact list, and nothing pulled from your account. The network analyzer draws the people one report actually observed around your posts: the people who responded to them, and the people you named in a post or whose post you shared. The two halves are reported apart and never added together.
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What the network analyzer is, and who is in it
The network analyzer is the part of a LinkedCheck report that draws the people the report itself observed around you. Two things put somebody there. They reacted to one of your posts inside the window the audience reading counts over, or you named them in a post or shared a post of theirs.
That is the whole population, and it is smaller and more honest than the number attached to your account. The report has no access to a contact list, no access to invitations and no access to anything behind your login. It reads what is public on your profile.
The two halves answer different questions. Who is paying attention to you, and who you are paying attention to. They are drawn apart, counted apart, and never added into one figure.
Example · fictional profile
What the overview states
- 112people this report saw around these posts
- 98responded to your posts
- 19you named in a post or shared a post of
- 5did both
Fictional figures for an invented profile. The halves overlap by design, which is why the report never adds them into one total.
How it is built
Two halves, kept apart
Each half is counted from a different act over a different set of posts. The report says which, rather than blending them into one audience number.
- 01
People who responded to your posts
Inward
A name, a role at an employer and a link to the profile, where this report can identify them, with how many of your posts each person responded to. Ordered by how much the report can evidence about them, and never by the size of a following.
Counted over the audience window: your own posts from the last 365 days, up to 50 of them.
- 02
People you named or whose posts you shared
Outward
How many of your posts named them, how many of their posts you shared, and whether they also responded to yours. People the report could not look up are counted rather than named.
Counted over the activity captured for the report, which is a wider set of posts than the audience window.
Because the two halves are counted over different sets of posts, a figure from one is never subtracted from or added to the other. The report states each on its own terms.
Where they work
The organisations these people come from, where this report can identify them
The network view reads the grouping the audience reading already computed rather than working it out a second time, so the two can never disagree.
Organisations
The employers with the most of these people, where available, each with how many are there and how many of them you named or shared. Counted from the current role each person states, once per person.
What level they work at
Shares of the people the report could place, read from the job title on their current role, with the ones it could not read shown as their own group rather than hidden.
The kind of work they do
The same reading, grouped by function. It is a reading of a stated title and nothing more, and the report publishes no figure for how often that reading is right.
Company detail
Industry, size, type and headquarters country of those employers, where enough data is available. A headquarters is where the company is, not where the person is.
Which one do you want
Network analyzer or audience analyzer?
They come in the same report and they are easy to confuse, so here is the line between them.
What the network analysis cannot see
The population is what one report observed. Everything outside that is absent rather than estimated.
- ShowsPeople who reacted to your posts inside the window, and the people you named in a post or whose post you shared, each half counted on its own.
- CannotReach anything behind your login: no contact list, no invitations, no messages, no profile visitors.
- CannotSee who reshared a post of yours. That direction is not available to the report, so nothing is built on it.
- CannotPlace somebody at more than one employer. Each is counted at the employer their current role states, once.
- RefusesTo call this a network you have built, to grade anybody in it, or to carry anybody forward from a report you ran before.
The other two readings of the same posts
The network view is who was there. The other two readings ask what the posts did, and how the people who responded behaved.
Content Analyzer
What your posting draws: formats, concentration, rhythm, and a plan for what to talk about next.Read about the content analyzerAudience Analyzer
The people who responded, counted: how many came to more than one post, and who has a following of their own.Read about the audience analyzerNetwork analyzer FAQ
Questions about the people around you
What does a LinkedIn network analyzer show?
This one shows the people one report observed around your posts and where they work, where it can place them. Two things put somebody there: they reacted to a post inside the window, or you named them in a post or shared a post of theirs. Nothing else does.
Is this my contact list?
No, and it cannot be. The report reads the public version of your profile and your activity, with no access to your account, so the people in it are the ones who appear in the posts themselves. Somebody you are linked to who was not in any of those posts is not here.
What counts as naming or sharing somebody?
Naming is a mention in a post you wrote. Sharing is you reposting something they published. A mention is counted as a mention and a share as a share, and neither is reported as attention they gave you.
Why are the two halves not added into one number?
Because they are different acts over different sets of posts, and the same person can appear in both. One number would either double-count that person or hide which half they came from, and the report would read as though more people were around you than it observed.
Where does the information about employers come from?
From the current role each person states on their own profile, looked up where this report can identify them. Each person is counted at one employer, once. An employer they used to be at is never counted, and a chart is withheld rather than drawn when too few people could be placed.
Can it show who reshared my post?
No. Who reshares your post is not something the report can capture, so no figure is built on it. What it can show is the reverse direction: the people whose posts you shared.
Which report includes the network view?
The Complete LinkedIn Intelligence Report, beside the audience and content readings of the same posts. It appears once there are people the report could look up.
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