3 Surprising Lessons From My Medium Stats

What you should check for too!

Niru
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6 min readNov 6, 2020

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On the last day of the months, as the night progresses- I do this activity that fills me with excitement and anxiety.

I check my stats!

Before you roll your eyes in disbelief, yes, I check my stats only once a month.

But my notifications, ah! That is a whole different thing altogether. (Hee-hee!) That’s why I use my phone- the go/no-go style is so much better on my trusty iPhone.

But I digress.

I like to look at my stats because it shows me the details for the full month. I don’t know what time zone Medium follows, but at 11 pm ET, I see the new month as having started already. (Check the Partner Program dash too if you want to test it)

My stats pretty much always look like this:

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What new can this teach me, one can think. But in the wise words of Daniel Tiger, the friendly 4-yr old striped preschooler:

We’ve gotta look a little
Look a little
Look a little closer
To find out what we want to know!

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Niru
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