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Medium Views by Traffic Source

Understanding Medium’s external referral section and article traffic sources

Casey Botticello
Blogging Guide
Published in
8 min readJan 7, 2020

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Traffic and reader statistics are available for stories you publish on Medium. In previous articles, I’ve focused on the various metrics that Medium uses to measure traffic and reader engagement:

All of these metrics are useful in their own way. However, understanding these metrics means very little unless you can identify the source of traffic.

That is where Medium’s Views by Traffic Source section comes in handy.

The Views by Traffic Source section can be accessed by going to the stats section of your profile and selecting an individual article or by navigating to a published article and click the view stats button in the top right hand corner.

Below is an example of the views by traffic source section for my Medium article: How to Bypass Virtually

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Casey Botticello
Blogging Guide

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