Why Doesn’t Medium Give Us Better Analytics?

A developer's perspective.

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I don’t think I’m making too many assumptions when I say that we all, as Medium writers, would like to better understand how our pieces are read and how they earn. To that end, we have the Medium “Stats” dashboard; a simple, clean, often misleading, and woefully underpowered source of analytics data.