Check your YouTube engagement rate in seconds

Add your likes and comments together, divide by your views, then multiply by 100 to get a percentage. For example, 450 likes plus 60 comments on a video with 10,000 views is (450 + 60) / 10,000 * 100, which is a 5.1% engagement rate. Some creators divide by subscribers instead of views, which this calculator also supports as a secondary option.

By views is generally more reliable. YouTube distributes videos through search and recommendations, so a video is often seen by many more people than the channel has subscribers, and dividing by subscribers can understate or overstate engagement depending on how much of your audience is subscribed. Dividing by subscribers is more useful if you want to know how engaged your existing subscriber base is specifically.

Not in this calculator. This tool uses the two engagement metrics every creator can see on any video, likes and comments, divided by views or subscribers. Shares and other signals like watch time factor into how YouTube ranks a video, but they are not part of the standard engagement rate formula and are not exposed as a public count on most videos.

The two most common formulas are (likes + comments) / views and (likes + comments) / subscribers, and different tools default to different ones without always saying so. If your numbers do not match another calculator, check which formula it used. This calculator lets you toggle between both so you can see your rate either way.