I Have A Dream: A Medium Stats Redesign📈✨

If you want something you gotta ask for it

“If I had asked people what they wanted they would say faster horses” -Henry Ford

I know that a lot of innovative decision makers go by this rule to try to make products that exceed people’s expectations. But you know what? Sometimes users know what they want. It’s what makes them comfortable and makes your product useful to them. So you should listen.

I have seen articles talking about Medium’s stats long before the new design was rolled out, and it has always been painful to me to try and get the info I want from that particular screen. Don’t get me wrong, I love medium! It’s the best thing that happened to blogging, in my humble opinion. But the thing is..when I go to my stats screen, there are certain numbers I want to see… and the experience is a total pain in the neck 😕

So in this article I will simply state what I wish the medium stats looked/behaved like (as a user/UX/UI designer) hoping that someone somewhere will read it and get the message to people calling the shots at medium.com.

WHAT I WANT🤩

1. I want to know how many views I have on a single day or during a set timeframe broken down into individual posts; meaning that clicking on a single date displays a list of posts/replies/pages and their respective view numbers.

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2. It would also be great to have some sort of info about locations the views are coming from. Understanding the people who read my posts is important to me: it helps me speak/write in a way that feels familiar to them.

3. I really like “your reader are interested in” part they added recently. It’s a great help to know how to optimize and choose future content based on reader’s interests.

4. Showing this overview directly when users choose “stats” gives a much better & more informative screen than the current one, where you basically can so nothing but scroll down the list of stories.

5. Insights based on all time-stats: most popular day & hour (beside trying to understand algorithms, this sort of info is useful to time and schedule my posts based on traffic & activity).

I know it’s not much but it would make my experience much, much better if these points were actually taken into consideration in the medium stats screen design!

And lastly; my views are not much, I barely get 50–100 views a day, but I think having a more informative stats screen will help me improve my content quality & optimize it for my readers. You do care about your users, don’t you, Medium?

Thanks for reading!