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Discussion on: Is there a good way to find out when your article is shared around?

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Glenn Carremans

Google search but so far it doesn't seem to get a lot of results.
Twitter search also gave me a couple of results (search for post url or title wrapped in ").

The post views on DEV are being tracked by Google Analytics and shown in your Dashboard, I am no expert in the Google Analytics API but I think it should be possible to also fetch page referrals.

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Ken Bellows

Yeah, both Google and Twitter have given me pretty solid results when I search for the dev.to URL or the article title (especially articles with pretty unique names). But it's a lot of manual labor to search multiple terms in multiple places, and I'm just so lazy...

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Glenn Carremans

Not sure if it was because of this post but it seems that @ben got inspired:

Add page_view model #1985

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

  • [ ] Refactor
  • [x] Feature
  • [ ] Bug Fix
  • [ ] Documentation Update

Description

This feature adds custom tracking of page views from within the app to complement and compare against Google Analytics data. This should make initial reporting faster and more reliable.

This also opens up the opportunity to show users their history.

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Ben Halpern

Unrelated to this thread, but yes, we are working on a few things to improve analytics and insights for authors. We should be able to provide data about where posts are being shared and where folks are coming from in the future.