https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/tahpcx/creator_stats_performance_metrics_now_available/
created by toastedfig on 09/03/2022 at 21:10 UTC
732 upvotes, 59 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hello Reddit,
In order to help redditors understand more about what posts resonate with people in communities, today we are giving OPs (original posters) and moderators metrics that will help you better understand how your post, or a post in your community, is received. We hope these insights will provide valuable information for future posts.
Around three years ago, Creator Stats were available for Creators but due to scaling and performance issues, we disabled that feature[1]. For the past five months, we opted 50% of desktop users and moderators into an experiment showing Creator Stats[2] on eligible posts. We are excited to announce we are able to bring this information back! We have continuously worked to improve visibility into the posts made across the platform for Creators and Moderators.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/a74eor/we_disabled_the_view_count_feature/
After a post has received 10 views, performance metrics will be available on the post details page for the original poster - or a moderator of the post’s community - and will expire after 45 days. This information will help moderators understand the type of content that can grow and develop their communities. Additionally, this can help users understand how well their post was received by the community.
These metrics will display:
We received positive feedback on our initial test of Creator Stats, we heard from many of you that you enjoyed knowing how many people visit your post even if they don’t vote. We want to let even more users know they aren’t lost in the void[3] by making stats available to 90% of users on desktop and moderators on new Reddit.
3: https://i.redd.it/1c0bb82dg8m81.jpg
We’re going to continue working on Creator Stats and plan to bring this feature to mobile apps and posts on profiles in the future. We are also looking for other statistics we can include that will be relevant and useful to users across Reddit. We’d love to hear from you on how these stats help your understanding of the content you create, or see in the communities you moderate, and what other information we could provide. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2022 at 21:47 UTC
188 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Neat! I can now see real time my posts *(or comments)* not gaining any traction
Comment by budlejari at 09/03/2022 at 21:12 UTC
44 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why do they expire? What was the reasoning behind this??
Comment by chaseoes at 09/03/2022 at 21:13 UTC
26 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Will there be API support for this?
Comment by NotDMsForLife at 09/03/2022 at 21:37 UTC*
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Can we get a whole Seperate Page for this because sometimes I will post several times a day and want to see the whole stats for all of my posts
And can we get stats for comments and for karma for the whole account in terms of how a user gains their karma over time
Comment by CaptainPedge at 10/03/2022 at 02:02 UTC
35 upvotes, 4 direct replies
old.reddit.com support?
Comment by awesomesaucebigg at 09/03/2022 at 21:31 UTC
18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We’ve had this on the subs I mod for a while.
It has been beyond helpful.
Sorting by flair, we determined what posts were getting the most interaction and at the same time what posts had the highest and lowest upvote rate. From this, we changed what posts were allowed on what days, which increased traffic and decreased low upvote rate posts.
It honestly really helps; it is also super cool to see that 30k people viewed your own post!
Love that this has happened, I would love if we could code auto mod with these stats tho.
If a post has less than 25% upvote rate, filtering would be helpful as many users downvote instead of reporting.
Other than that, cool feature that I have enjoyed as a mod and as a user.
Comment by CongressmanCoolRick at 09/03/2022 at 22:02 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Am I doing something wrong, or is it possible I'm in the 90% of users this is available for, but not in the 90% of mods? I can see post insights on my own posts, but not on posts others have made in the community I moderate. Or does it display differently somehow for mods?
Comment by Watchful1 at 09/03/2022 at 21:31 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When this was originally announced, I asked about community karma[1] as it would be an extremely useful value for moderation tools, both in the API and in automoderator. Do you know if there has been any progress on that?
Comment by ChiragK2020 at 10/03/2022 at 01:28 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think hiding the upvote rate is not a good idea. Now we cant understand the difference between a post that got 200 upvotes and no downvotes and a post that got 1000 upvotes and 800 downvotes. It is almost as bad as youtube removing the dislikes
Comment by shawa666 at 10/03/2022 at 04:56 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Neat, now we'll get more karmawhores like Gallowboob.
Comment by tharic99 at 09/03/2022 at 23:32 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
For those of you who, like me, were wondering where this nifty little feature was on your new posts.
It's only on new reddit, it doesn't show up on https://old.reddit.com/
Comment by elch3w at 10/03/2022 at 00:04 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
What does community karma mean?
Comment by LengthyPole at 09/03/2022 at 21:48 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh I loved this feature when it came out for testing, I’m so glad to see it’s back!
One thing I mentioned was I’d love to be able to see ‘community karma’ without having to post, it’d be interesting to see especially if there’s a 45 day limit on the metrics
Comment by manawesome326 at 09/03/2022 at 22:05 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is neat, though I worry it will make us more insane over metrics than we already are with the single metric we have (upvotes). Questions, though these both seem unlikely I think I should ask: will this (or another way of getting the same information) be coming to old reddit? And, are there any plans to add a way to view similar statistics for comments?
Comment by [deleted] at 10/03/2022 at 04:37 UTC
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Has this feature been implemented yet. I am waiting for this feature. I feel it would be very helpful. I don't see this feature yet.
Comment by badspler at 09/03/2022 at 21:15 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
As moderator I would love to see historic information (past 45 days) to make informed decisions in the community. Would it be possible that tracking could stop at this point but the values lock in and remain visible?
Comment by xLev_ at 09/03/2022 at 21:46 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Are post views counted when you click on the post?
Comment by solateor at 10/03/2022 at 15:36 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
/u/toastedfig this is so timely. I had a post go completely viral a few days ago and wanted to know how it performed so I was looking around new.reddit.com and found these stats. Very cool. Typically, I use gfycat to host my videos, but in this case I chose to upload the content directly to reddit. Here are the stats:
https://i.imgur.com/JH56j8f.png
Pretty amazing, but not accurate (or at a minimum, confusing). When I hover over the "total shares" area, it says 18 shares, not 18,000 shares. Can you explain how the shares calculation works?
Also, are you planning on adding these stats to old.reddit.com?
Comment by Michaelb089 at 16/03/2022 at 03:46 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is the little bar chart icon in the bottom right corner of your post history on your profile related to this?
Comment by palsh7 at 30/04/2022 at 17:39 UTC*
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The "shares" feature doesn't seem to provide enough info. I was looking at a post that had "6 shares" but 0 were from links and 0 were from crossposts. There was no additional information. Why doesn't Reddit show me where those 6 shares were from, if Reddit itself knows this information? I'd like to know for the purposes of either building the sub, or preventing outsiders from disrupting the community.
Comment by Tetizeraz at 09/03/2022 at 21:29 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hi! I always liked this feature, even though the 'total shares' metric is a bit vague. I think some mods have told your team about that already.
What I am curious, and maybe this can be told here and in the interface, the hours shown in the graph is in UTC -0 or in my local timezone (UTC -03)? I ask this because subreddit traffic is in UTC -0, and I always get confused because converting timezones is hard for my poo poo brain.
Comment by awkwardtheturtle at 09/03/2022 at 23:56 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Make it available on old reddit
Comment by [deleted] at 10/03/2022 at 00:33 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Will this eventually come to mobile? I have some ideas on how it could be done
Comment by wojciech1 at 09/03/2022 at 21:32 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can you add a feature where it allows video to play in the old video player and not the tiktok wannabe video player? Or just reverse all the bad UI changes such as the discover tab and the profile button changing positions to the right side of the screen.
Comment by Heinrik- at 09/03/2022 at 22:37 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Nice!
