Improving Auto-Pause for Everyone

Every time an athlete uploads an activity to Strava, the server analyzes the activity and calculates…

Pace Graphs — Up Is the New Down

In April 2013, Strava released a complete redesign of run activity pages on the web. The changes were comprehensive from both product and engineering perspectives. Amidst a large number of new features and feature enhancements, one seemingly small user experience decision…

What Do 220,000,000,000 Data Points Look Like?

Analytics at Strava

Just as our athletes are obsessed with tracking and analyzing their athletic pursuits, we here at Strava are obsessed with tracking our own performance; but instead of wattage and pace, we’re concerned with activity and engagement. In this post, I’ll talk a little bit about the infrastructure…

Fitness & Freshness Updates

The Fitness and Freshness chart, first released in March 2013 is one of the many powerful training tools…

Conquering Our Android Crash Count

At Strava, we strive to produce quality software to serve and motivate the world’s athletes. As part of that mission, we are constantly updating and refining our user experience. And few things make for a worse user experience than the app crashing.

Internationalizing Strava

Internationalization is the kind of problem whose solution is comparable to replacing the wheels of a moving train…