Inactive and fake followers quietly shrink your reach. Answer 8 quick questions and see what share of your audience looks real, what's dragging it down, and what to fix first.
Look at engagement compared with your follower count, sudden spikes you can't explain, and followers from countries you don't serve. Accounts with no profile photo, no posts and random usernames are usually bots.
Yes. Instagram first shows a post to a slice of your followers. If many of them are inactive, nobody in that slice engages, and the post stops travelling.
Usually, yes. Remove obvious bot accounts in small batches of 20 to 30 a day, so your account stays safe.
No. It never asks for your password or scans your account. It's an estimate built from the numbers you enter, compared with typical ranges for accounts your size.