Understanding Medium Views, Reads, and Read Ratio

Benjamin A.
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Medium is a popular platform for writers and bloggers to share their work and connect with a broad audience. For writers, it provides a unique opportunity to showcase their writing skills to a large audience, while readers get access to high-quality content on various topics. In this article, we will discuss three important metrics of Medium- views, reads, and read ratio.

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Medium Article Views

Views refer to the number of times your story appears on a people’s screen. This means that every time someone scrolls past your story, it counts as a view, whether they stop to read it or not. It is the first indication of how well a story is performing on Medium.

Reads

Reads tell you how many have read the entire story. To count as a read, the person has to spend at least 10 seconds on your story. Reads are a more…

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