Making money with 0 views
Medium stats make no sense
No, it’s not clickbait, I’m making money with no views, but I think it’s more because there’s a bug in Medium stats that because I’ve mastered and haked the website.
I am very unsure of what’s going on. I will not attempt to give an answer to it, but lately, I’ve been seeing some irregularities on my Medium stats and I wanted to share them in the hopes someone can figure out what the hell is going on.
We have two categories of weird things that happen on Medium. The first one is money made with no view (and therefore no reading). The second one is money made with no reading (even if it might have views, it says that MRT is 0 sec).
Stats of Stories that made Money with no views
Stats of Stories that made Money with no reading
There have been many more stories that have a similar graph situation, however, I found that these three examples were illustrative enough, I’ll add them if anyone is curious.
Feasible explanations of this situation
The first explanation I’ve come up with is that views and reads accumulate. Since the money you get from the stories you do depends on the amount of stories the reader reads, it’s hard to calculate on the spot. Sure, this makes, sense, but then, wouldn’t it be more reasonable to change the stats of past days so it correlates with the money you made on the set day instead of just being misleading?
Another explanation it’s that’s just a bug to be fixed, which would honestly surprise me that Medium messes this up since it a big part of their brand identity: seeing how good (or bad) your published stories do.
The third one is that I have no idea how to read stats, this confusion is entirely my fault and this story has completely embarrassed me.
I’m desperately waiting for answers that can clear up my confusion. Thanks for your time.
