Medium Writing Tips

Medium Writing Stats Explained

Understanding views, reads, fans, claps, and more!

Casey Botticello
Blogging Guide
Published in
5 min readOct 1, 2019

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Source: Casey Botticello of Blogging Guide

Getting recognition for your writing on Medium is an amazing feeling! But, in able to replicate your success (or grow your audience), you need to understand the data analytics behind your Medium stories.

Luckily, Medium does offer several built in tools to help monitor traffic and visitor statistics, for any story you publish on Medium. While these stats are available to all writers, many fail to take the time to understand exactly what each metric of data represents.

This understanding is especially critical for new writers, who may focus on a particular statistic, only to realize later, that it was a poor proxy for their definition of success.

T E R M I N O L O G Y

When you are logged into your Medium account, click on your profile picture, and then select “stats” to see the statistics that Medium tracks.

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Medium “Stats” Button

You will now see the stats from your articles over the past 30 days:

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