Impact Metrics of a Blog

Hi Trent,

I am not sure if this is the answer that you are after but I have checked my posts which number a little over 200 and go back to May 2014. On a couple occasions I have had over a thousand views and once over 3000 but most show less than 500 in total. If you measure this against the total membership it is a small percentage. It is quite a bit better if it is compared to the active membership. Once in a while the administration will highlight a blog by promoting it on the Welcome page and this can multiply the number of views.

John

You're spot on jw0752

As you stated, it is a measure of how far within the community your post reaches. I'm on a mobile device, and if I touch each metric whilst viewing them I get an explanation.

I've not tried mouse clicking them on my desktop so I don't know if you can easily see it there.

The text I get is pasted below:

Reach conveys how widely viewed your content is in your community. We use a calculation based on number of registered users, and include web and mobile views only. This does not include those following content via email.

Hi Trent,

A good blog can affect a good many people, well beyond the view metrics.

I think Element14 does a good job of reaching a wide range of engineers.

The level of expertise found in the membership is amazing to me, and I have worked with very good people most of my career, so I know the difference.

If you invest your time and blog here, you will get quality comments and advice as needed.

I think you have already seen the many benefits of the community sharing knowledge and ideas.

I do not even look at the metrics for my blogs.

I just try to share what I can and let time take care of the rest.

Your blogs can live on for many years.

DAB

Thank you for the responses. The impact metrics are a great feature. For a new member such as myself, it can be helpful information. 

Recently I've added my Google+ profile URL info to my Element 14 profile and vice versa. This should make my blog posts appear with my G+ avatar in Google search results as suggested in the E 14 profile edit page:

In Google+, go to your profile, and click About. Copy the URL and paste it here. Then on Goolge+, scroll down to Links, click Edit, and in the Contribute To section click Add Custom Link; add http://element14.com/community. Once you've done that your posts on element14 will show up nicely with your G+ avatar in Google search results. e.g. https://plus.google.com/12345678901234567890

The desktop version of the element14 website is great.

All the features are available. I prefer the desktop version over mobile.

There are critical features that are missing from the mobile view of the website.

For instance, when viewing a post, on the right side of the mobile view,

the entire column that contains follow link, share link, bookmark, like button, and star rating are missing or not available.

I can read a blog post but not give it a like or star rating with mobile. Only on comments a like thumb is available.

The learn more link is missing for the Impact Metrics page. This is the page that contains all the statistics. There is also a graph of views over time on that page. None of this is visible on either of my Android devices.

I have not been able to find a way to view the full desktop view  on Google or Chrome browser for Android. Also can not attend live Webinars and sometimes the recorded Webinars will not play from E 14 website in Chrome browser for Android. Google browser is the same. Most websites have a mobile and full desktop view that can be changed with the way the URL is entered. This is not the case with the element14 website.

The options on writing a reply such as Insert Image, Insert Video, etc are missing from the mobile view.

The mobile view could use improvement. The same issues occur on my phone and tablet.

Hi Trent,

On Android, there is an option in Chrome to 'request desktop version' of web pages, and that reverts you to the desktop view (iOS may have a similar type of setting, but I'm not sure). To do that on Android Chrome, tap the icon with three vertical dots (...) at the top-right of the screen, and then in the drop-down menu that appears, there should be a check-box for 'Request desktop site'. Hopefully that will work for you. 

Thank you for the suggestion. I will try that.

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Just about all the missing items you refer to depend on the orientation of my phone when using an iOS (Apple) device.

If it's used in 'portrait' then yes - I get a very reduced toolset and display.

Rotating the phone to landscape gives the FULL desktop version - I just pinch to zoom out a bit and it's all there. I selected the 'learn more' option on my phone.

All the links for adding photos etc. to your reply are above the text box as I type now.

I do use the desktop a fair amount of the time, viewing at work for instance (over lunchtime of course) and at home most of the time. (I have such poor internet that I tether all the house IT to my phone and stand it on a windowsill)!

Hopefully that hat helps a bit.

regards

Andrew

Works perfect! Thank you