Views vs. Reads on Medium
Understanding what counts in your stats
*Before reading, please scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page in order for it to be counted as a “read.” Thanks!
If you’ve written on Medium for any length of time, you’ve noticed the categories in your stats include: Views, Reads, and Fans. You may be asking yourself,
What’s the difference between views and reads?
On Medium’s own Help page, it states:
Views are the number of visitors who clicked on a story’s page, while Reads tells you how many viewers have read the entire story (an estimate).
This may seem easy enough to understand, but keep reading.
No One Likes Me! 😢
This delineation then begs the question:
Why is my percentage of reads so low when the views are much higher? Does this mean people don’t like what they see?
Not necessarily.
There have been many articles, stories and poems that I have read on this platform. After reading, I may clap and/or comment, or if I didn’t like it, neither one. No matter what my response, I exit the article and sometimes…
