Title: Top Performers report
Author: staff
Published: July 21, 2022
Last modified: September 22, 2025

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 1. [User handbook](https://docs.parse.ly/user-handbook/)
 2. [Measuring and reporting performance](https://docs.parse.ly/user-handbook/measuring-reporting-performance/)
 3. [Reports guide](https://docs.parse.ly/user-handbook/measuring-reporting-performance/reports-guide/)
 4. Top Performers report

#  Top Performers report

The Top Performers report provides an overview of the most popular videos, posts,
authors, sections, tags, referrers, campaigns, channels, conversion labels, or segments
on your site on your site.

![Example of a Top Performers report.](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/
sites/5/2025/06/Top-Performers-report.png)

Example of a Top Performers report.

Follow Parse.ly’s [guide to creating reports](https://docs.parse.ly/measuring-reporting-performance/reports-guide/create-new/)
to create a new Top Performers report.

## Use cases

 * The Top Performers report is an excellent resource for those concerned with reporting
   on a high level.
 * Editors can set up a daily Top Performers report that lists the previous day’s
   top posts. Once yesterday’s strongest content is identified, they can ask questions
   like:
    - Can we re-promote the top content?
    - Have the top stories been pushed to all social channels?
    - Has more information come out on a topic listed, and can we write a follow-
      up story?

## Tips

 * The Top Performers report is interactive. Click a listed video, post, author,
   section, tag, referrer, etc. to see more details in the [Parse.ly Dashboard](https://docs.parse.ly/dashboard/).
 * If you add two or more filters for the **same category** (e.g., two sections)
   when [creating the report](https://docs.parse.ly/measuring-reporting-performance/reports-guide/create-new/),
   it will show data that meets _any_ condition. If you add two or more filters 
   for **different categories** (e.g., a section filter and a tag filter), the report
   will only show data that meets _all_ conditions.
 * When creating a Top Performers report for posts/pages, the Lifecycle filter will
   focus the report on evergreen or evergreen candidate posts.
    - A post must be at least 20 days old and still receiving significant traffic
      to be considered evergreen. An evergreen candidate post is between 8-20 days
      old and still receiving significant traffic.

![The Lifecycle filter is available when creating a new Top Performers report for
posts/pages.](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/08/Lifecycle-
report-filter-1024x512.png)

The Lifecycle filter is available when creating a new Top Performers report for 
posts/pages.

**Note**

The [Evergreen Content report](https://docs.parse.ly/measuring-reporting-performance/reports-guide/evergreen-content/)
can also be run to get more details on evergreen content.

Last updated: September 22, 2025