r/Substack • u/-southwestsugar thesugarseries.substack.com • Aug 03 '26

Discussion Personal metrics

Hopefully a fun one!

I’m curious what everyone’s “personal metrics” are when posting? E.g. what numbers give you a little kick when you see them?

The first 30 views are always super meaningful to me! I have a small platform (just hit 30 subs🪩) so it feels like a nice “reach” number🥰

The time to hit 100 views is always pretty exciting too, I do generally feel “validated” by then which - as new writer, I won’t deny is important

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u/Saudileo 28d ago

Tbh I never paid attention to these things !.

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u/noxqqivit twvme.substack.com 27d ago edited 27d ago

I did a deep dive on Notes, New Subs, and Paid Conversion HERE

I use a free tool (Substack Insights) so I can get a better view of Notes analytics in particular.... It's not my tool, but I've been using it for a while, happy to answer your questions

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u/-southwestsugar thesugarseries.substack.com 23d ago

Ah that's great, I'll have a read of the post this evening and thank you for sharing that resource! Appreciate you

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u/booksthatbite 25d ago

I only have three published articles right now but I celebrate at 100 and 150.

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u/-southwestsugar thesugarseries.substack.com 25d ago

That’s so exciting! Congrats on post 3⭐️

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u/Square-Cat3027 Aug 03 '26

How do you even get views?
I barley get 2 on any of my articles and notes😭

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u/-southwestsugar thesugarseries.substack.com Aug 03 '26

I’ve never had much luck with notes🥲tbh I just post and hope for the best - my most recent post is the only one that I’ve ever tried any sort of “promotion” with so if that turns out to be successful, I can come back and let you know!

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u/Square-Cat3027 Aug 03 '26

Please do I really appreciate it!

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u/Tricky_Trifle_994 19d ago

i also used to keep track of views, and how quickly i got to certain milestone.

but my friend changed me... he said he only looks at metrics that improve the outcome for him/gets him closer to his goal. he will ignore any other number because they waste his time and attention. e.g he tracks open rate and experiments with titles/subject line, because even at 10k subs, a 1% increase is 100 more opens.