Hidden Details Of Your Medium Stats

A look at what you have been missing

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I use Firefox as my desktop browser when I compose and view stories on Medium. I recently had written an article about “A Few Things Medium Needs To Fix” in which one of my complaints was about the skimpy data points we are given for stats.

You can request a download of all your data, but it is given to you in a format that is not easy to use. It is basically just a data dump.

I started looking for a better way of understanding the relationships of my data so I could formulate a way to improve my reads.

A fellow writer, @rocklinca put together an excellent article about tools that we could use to enhance our writing experience. A preview video about a chrome extension tool to help with followers got me thinking that there might be other tools out there I had been missing by using Firefox.

Essential Tools for Medium Authors

I downloaded Chrome to use as my browser and fired it up. The first thing I did was go to the chrome extensions page and do a search for Medium. I needed to click on the more extensions button in…