How well does your Instagram fit what Instagram rewards?
InstaCells Check scores an Instagram account out of 100 across five pillars, findability, format fit, caption quality, content depth and engagement health, and names the fixes to make first. InstaCells Report adds a confidence interval, competitor comparison, what goes with higher engagement for your account, content lifespan and a full fix plan.
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- InstaCells CheckFirst one freeYour InstaCells Check in minutes: five pillars, the top fixes, and how you compare with accounts your size.InstaCells Check · 35 credits per scan
- InstaCells ReportThe full Instagram audit: every post scored, competitors compared, every fix prioritised — with confidence intervals on every number.InstaCells Report · 1,920 credits per scan
What are the five pillars of the InstaCells Check?
a professional account, your keyword in the Name field and bio, and a website link.
media sized for the feed, Reels of a sensible length, at most five hashtags, captions long enough to explain, original content.
your keyword before the cut-off, a clear call to action, a genuine question, easy reading and no engagement bait.
carousels and Reels, substantive captions, a clear topic focus and format variety.
engagement for your follower band, comments as well as likes, recent posting and a steady rhythm.
What does InstaCells Report add?
A 95% confidence interval and stability figure on the score, your trend across scans, which content factors are associated with higher engagement for you (compared within the same post type), the three largest gaps to competitor accounts with examples, a transparent algorithm-fit rubric, how long each post type keeps working, and a prioritised fix plan in a branded PDF.
Is the score compared with other accounts?
Yes, once enough comparable accounts have been measured: we show your percentile among anonymised accounts in the same follower band. Until then the comparison is not shown rather than invented.
Which InstaCells product answers which question?
| Product | Question it answers | What you get | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| InstaCells Check | How well does my account fit what Instagram rewards? | Score with range, every check, top fixes | About a minute |
| InstaCells Report | What holds my Instagram back, and what goes with higher engagement for me? | Branded PDF with 95% CI, competitors, fix plan | A few minutes |
| InstaCells AI Check | Do AI answers cite or mention my brand? | Score with 95% CI across three pillars, top fixes | A few minutes |
| InstaCells AI Report | How do I become citable by AI answers? | Branded PDF plus draft web pages | Several minutes |
What this measures, and what it does not
Instagram blocks most AI crawlers by default. This means most of the variation in AI citation is explained by what exists outside Instagram, not by optimising inside it. InstaCells measures both — your on-platform signals and your off-platform web footprint — and reports the association between them honestly. It does not claim that any single change will cause a specific increase in AI citations; that would need controlled experiments we have not yet run at scale.
Sources
- Google Search Central: AI features and your website — How content appears in Google's AI answers.
- RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol — The standard behind crawler access rules, which decide what AI crawlers may read.
- W3C: JSON-LD 1.1 — The structured data format the draft web pages use.
- Schema.org — The shared vocabulary for FAQ, how-to and article pages.
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InstaCells Check
Your InstaCells Check, 0 to 100 with its range, in about a minute. Your first one is free.
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InstaCells Report and InstaCells AI Report
The full Instagram audit and the AI-visibility programme: competitors, what is associated with engagement for you, your web footprint and a prioritised plan, as branded PDFs.
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Questions people ask
What is a good InstaCells Check?
80 and above is strong, 65 to 79 good, 45 to 64 needs work and below 45 weak. Read it with its range, and against accounts in your follower band once that comparison is available.
Why are some checks marked not measured?
Some inputs are not visible in public data, such as saves, sends and watch time. They are left out of the score and listed, never guessed.
How many competitors can InstaCells Report compare?
Up to three accounts per scan. If you name none, we look for them in search results for your keywords.