Yeah, the title, I know… but I had to try it at least once in my life 😬😂

For many of us, Medium is the go-to platform for writing and publishing content online. It provides an extremely slick writing experience and, to be honest, I can’t imagine using anything else anymore…

I have been using Medium for years and I was always curious about the total reach of my articles

Unfortunately, Medium stats can be described only as very basic or, to be frank, utterly lacking in the feature department. Even simple stuff like a summary row with a total count of the views and reads at the bottom of the table is missing.

The only solution is to add the numbers manually which is a boring, error-prone process. It gets progressively more tedious with the increasing number of articles, so you basically get punished for being a productive writer…

But hey, there is hope…

…at least for the people using Google Chrome and Opera with this amazing Opera addon and then installing standard Chrome extension.

Introducing Medium Enhanced Stats

What is in it for You? 👧🏻👈🏻

To put it briefly, there are four main features of Medium Enhanced Stats:

Total reach indicator Bar chart article markers Stats table summary row and extra information Support for users and publications 🐣 An Easter Egg to be found, if you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and explore the source 🎉🎉🎉

Add Medium Enhanced Stats to your Google Chrome now! Yes, it’s 100% FREE!

Or to Opera with this amazing Install Chrome Extensions addon.

Total reach indicator

Total reach is a sum of all the views of your articles and responses.

Instead of being a plain number, indicator contains a next milestone and a progress bar which shows how much you have already accomplished.

Milestone is calculated as a next 10x “round” number.

For example, people with a reach under 1K will achieve their 1K milestone pretty quick, but it will probably take more time to move from 1M to 10M…

Then again, I would be very happy if you proved my assumption wrong 😉

I would like to thank Johann Gyger for his help with debugging the extension popup! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Bar chart article markers

Have you ever caught yourself wondering what was the cause of that pronounced views bump 3 months ago? Me too! Luckily the newest feature of Medium Enhanced Stats set out to solve just that…