Introduction
Hello! Over the last few months, I have been conducting some analytics the quality of content on HIVE. As no one author can be directly compared to another, because we all have our unique styles and posting niches, I have instead decided to build a tool that has many use cases.
Load the page, type in a username. Press a button. You can Fetch All the Posts made by a user, or just the last 100. For accounts with a long history of posting, like mine, it takes a while to gather the content from HIVE API end points.
In summary, this tool presents:
- An Author Overview
- Post length timeline
- Posting Trends
- Words Published Over Time
- Readability over Time
- Readability Distribution
- Word Count Distribution
- Post Archive, filterable by Reading Level
- Export Functions for further analysis
Use Cases for This Tool
I envision that this tool can be used by those seeking to improve their own writing (by making it easier to understand) - or to review prior content in a bid to understand their writing styles and methods more deeply.
Other use cases exist for curation - has the author seen a sudden uptick in readability, content length, or have they taken a long break from Hive?
Tool Components
Author Overview
Once the data is retrieved you get a neat little scorecard:
This is not a dashboard about earning. This is a dashboard of publishing activity, and how "sticky" the user is to the Hive Platform. You can see the date of the first post, the most recent post - and a number of other things.
The Total Number of Posts the User has made. How many posts per day?
What was the longest uninterrupted streak of posting? When was it? Did they take a break from posting? How long was their longest break?
How many total words have they published to the chain? How many average words? How many images? How many images per post? How many words per picture? How many pictures per word?
All these questions are answered. You can see my data above :)
The next section is about the trend of posts.
Post Content Summary
You can see that with a long list of posts, the chart gets very busy, but at a glance, I published a lot of images (compared to words) in 2021, which lines up with when I was able to go off and pursue my photography as the world opened up again.
Posting Trends
What days, years, months, and hours of the day has the user been active?
Word Count Mountain & Readability
I've nearly published a million words to HIVE. I didn't know that before this tool.
The lower chart here shows readability over time, I am pretty static, but there are some excursions where my writing is incredibly dense and hart to understand, being the lower numbers.
Readability and Word Count
The readability statistics are derived from the Flesch Kincaid methodology of categorising content by what level of education in English a reader may require to understand the content. Simple language is good English, but we all get "flowery" and complex from time to time.
How this is actually calculated is summarised by the following screenshot from WikiPedia:
Post History
The post history lists the Title, Author, Date, Time, word count (Derived by counting the number of spaces in the text) - the number of images (by counting the incidence of certain file extensions in the text), and finally, the readability score, along with a link to the post.
You can sort by the readability level.
You are also able to export the content for further analysis, either as a CSV or a JSON. Note that some CSV readers may fail to render columns elegantly where a post has thousands and thousands of characters / words.
Use the tool here!
If you like this tool, please vote to support my witness.
I will not be making an application for DHF funding for this tool. This tool is about content.
For a long time I have believed that content is what will bring value to HIVE.
I believe that this is a tool that is simple, that anyone can use to become more aware of their own writing complexity, and see some more granularity about their HIVE blockchain history. Perhaps it will lure interested writers to HIVE so they can analyse their own writing.
Thank you for reading. I look forward to seeing your views and trends in the comments. Share it with a friend, etc. :)
Screenshots of New Features
Changelog since initial publication
- Remove URLs and Markdown Syntax from Readability Calculation
- Exclude Cross Posts from calculations
- Word Count was wonky, improved logic
- Analysis of Content Type - Image Heavy, Text Only, Text Heavy, Balanced
- Data about replies
- Engagement by Readability Level
- Engagement by Word Count
- Engagement by Content Type
Issues / Suggestions
- Filter Out dBuzz Posts
- Filter out actifit posts?
- Add "idle days" to charts that are timebound
An excellent tool
Excellent tool, very useful for obtaining data about the content I publish. I've always strived to improve my content, and even though I mostly share movie and anime reviews, I like to give my all in each post.
That's why I love seeing charts like this one about the readability of my posts, and I'm surprised that most of them are at the Post-Graduate level. Just change to Professional or University with posts that don't fit my main niche.
I always try to be as informal as possible in my reviews, but I also don't like to write half-heartedly or in such a blatant way. I also worry a lot about spelling mistakes and punctuation marks. I guess this tool takes all of this and more into account when making these calculations.
I'm also fascinated by the fact that there's a graph for readings, so I can finally see a reliable number of reads for each of my posts. I've always been concerned about this with my posts, and I didn't know if trust the views that Ecency or PeakD show on posts. Blog Fronts on Hive usually seem to pay no attention to these details. It's great that this tool does.
Excellent work, really.
There is an oversight I am trying to work on at the moment that this scoring mechanism does not yet ignore URLs or Markdown Syntax for images, so once that is fixed, it may change the results.
This won't show the number of reads, but it will show the skill level that a reader would need to understand the post.
Oh, I understand... Well, I hope this problem is resolved soon. I want to see what results I get.
And yes, you're right, I just realized that what I was showing before was the readability and not the readings of the posts themselves. A small misunderstanding on my part. 😅
That's okay. I have fixed the design oversight I made, and you can rerun in a few minutes and it should see a different result, as URLs / Markdown syntax were making the writing "more complicated" than it actually is. :)
I fixed the issue I spoke about in my other comment, I reran your account:
I just confirmed it. That's a good result, isn't it? Post-Graduate and University studies sound like something I'm not, to be honest. 😅
I'm barely a mid-level computer technician and I didn't last long at university. But hey, I've always been concerned about improving my writing and that's not bad.
I did post-graduate study and always try to use the simplest language I can, but I have a vocabulary and I use it a lot!
I guess the vocabulary issue is another reason for me to get those results. I'm not much of a book reader, nor do I consider myself very studious, but I take great care with what I write and how I write it, even in informal conversations. I also try not to forget to put a period or a comma where it always belongs.
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Holy shit this looks awesome! I am going to have to give this a go when I am back at the computer. Almost afraid to see the ratings of my lowbrow musings!
Nicely done!
Sill finding some bugs as I test further, but thank you! Remember, it is not about your skill as a writer or an author, but how readable your output is by different levels of education! :)
The Readability Distribution for my posts was interesting. I write for myself primarily, so I'd like to see more in the Post Graduate and Professional sectors.
Interesting tool!
You can use MS Word to calculate the numbers as well, it is part of the options for editing / spell check. if you don't have word, The Hemmingway web app is a nice editor that will show you as you type :)
I'm a notepad appreciator! I'll check what if any readability metrics, Libre Office may have.
I use Obsidian to write. Its a fantastic piece of software. Mutli platform, too. I will see if it has a readability plug in, it may.
So it turned out there was an unintentional design flaw in my code. I was including images and URLs in the calculation for the reading complexity score. This was unintentionally increasing the complexity score of writing.
I have fixed this and re-ran your numbers for you:
The tool is now updated with this fix.
It must have missed hart for hard in your post.
I didnt use any spell check or writing tools for this post, I just typed it like I normally would there is probably lots of errors!
Well, there you go, you should let your hair down more often, enjoyability is also attractive to people.
It's didn't, relax a bit.
Fascinating tool. I dread applying it to my content. I highly doubt I will fare as well as you have in it.
I could not more agree. It is the library of content for which anyone visits a site.
Thanks!
Edit: on closer examination of your chart of pics and words per post, I don't see a 274 day break that's reported in the first table of stats. Odd.
I hope that this tool will see use on the curator side as well, so that they can understand the consistency and effort that some authors go to. This isn't "KE", but it is a pretty nice measure of productivity/ :)
My very first thought was "This is going to make it a LOT easier to see if an author would be appreciated by OCD."
That is where I was sort of going with the idea. Glad you could see that as well. :)
I think many people will, it's pretty obvious.
Just left a glowing review.
I replied as you published your edit. Almost the exact same moment.
The line is aggregating only days that are there, not the entire series of dates. That is an improvement I can make, but I think that will make the chart even wider and harder to view for many users.
Ah! That explains it.
This is exactly the type of analytics tool I've been waiting for. I tested it on my oldsoulnewb account, and had 0 problems during my limited use. Haven't had a chance to try all the filters and export functions yet.
I love the large, easy to read graphs on my PC. I don't even need my readers to see that. Super easy UI... please lend some skills to the poor folks at 3Speak 😁
I would say that readability scores are a bit... odd. It seems to think that one of my smartest posts was:
I'm not claiming that any of my other posts are more intelligent, but I don't think that bit of snark was 'post-graduate' level. 🤣
Seriously, this is one of the most beautiful and functional Hive tools I've ever seen.
Thank you! The implementation of the grading algo/methodology does break down for super short bits of text. As to the UI - I did spend several years working professionally using PowerBI , and I hated the way it did layouts, so anytime I do anything visually for dashboards, I try to be better than that garbage. :P
Having said that, the functionality of the tool is what matters the most.
As I said in a reply to another commentator - I wanted to extract my old posts from the chain, but the other interfaces were frustrating me, and I didn't want to do it manually, so I started with the tool to retrieve posts, looked at my old analysis stuff that I did in PowerBI and shrugged and asked myself "why not?"
And here we are :P
This tool is not perfect, nor will it ever be, but I think it is plenty useful in its current state.
Thank you for your review / feedback. :)
Great tool. Heading out tonight for dinner, but hopefully tomorrow I will dive into it more :)
Enjoy your dinner. Looking forward to your deeper thoughts when you return tomorrow. :)
This looks like a really helpful and informative tool and appreciate what you have created and developed. The ease of read score is interesting as I guess the easier to read part is probably better.
Neat tool.
It’s around what I expected. It was nice to see a total word count.
Seems some of my longer-term changes for consistency have been panning out.
You've always been a monster of a writer. I am glad it worked on your long history of lengthy posts.
I figured if it worked for me ... I was right :)
Oh my word! What a great tool! I was expecting mine to take a little while to load but but was good that it shows the progress so I know it's doing something. Then it stopped bang on at 1500, I thought that was the limit!!
I'm going to look at this in detail when I'm on my computer, but so far the level of information is great. Thanks for doing it!
It has loaded my account with 2249 posts. It should work for anything, with the system RAM being the only bottleneck (those thirsty chrome tabs!)
Glad you like it! :) I haven't tested it on mobile at all, only desktop, lol!
That is pretty cool mate - my stats show this - no idea if that is good or bad? Do you also incorporate short form content such as snaps, waves etc?
Short form content - waves, snaps, threads is not included, as that is considered a reply to the overarching post container that is rendered by the respective front end. I'm interested in long form content :)
There is no good or "bad", just "easy to understand", or "difficult to understand" - but that depends on the reader's educational level.
The formula used here is one that has existed for a very long time to analyse how easy it is to read text.
People write however they write, and the score is just derived from sentence length, structure, and the number of syllables in words.
And on a personal note: Many thanks for your recent support of my witness, I hope it was this tool that helped you with that decision!
It includes short form post to D.Buzz
I will need to filter that out. Do you have an example (ie, an account) so I can put that on my list? I think the /app in the API return should enable me to filter that out, but I want to double check with an existing, known post. Please gimme a link and I'll add it to my tomorrow list. About to watch the Formula 1 qualifying , then go to bed after :)
Here's a link to one...
https://peakd.com/hive-193084/@oldsoulnewb/gk0ix6ebitv1o9y4gfbjaf
Here's a link to one on the D.Buzz frontend...
https://d.buzz/@oldsoulnewb/4l5u0n8sco10w372rd1ukp
I did some further testing, I think I have resolved the issue with the release I put out before I went to bed last night. Just catching up on all the comments now.
i realized some interesting stats - major long break and that my frequency posting was declining and in 2025 picked up a bit.
Also last 100 posts readability was nothing for elementary at all while before it was more - i might write more basic it seems :-).
One catch was that one here - a post that seems to be hardly readable / complex (grade 35) while the post was pretty short and easy but full of many links/tags :-):
https://peakd.com/@uwelang/dance-sounds-from-scandinavia
Yes - maybe not the tool only - I was not aware you are running a witness at all before :-)
I am working on fixing this by excluding markdown and html syntax from posts. I think those users who have long signatures with lots of these present will be pushed to "professional" on the basis of the existing logic.
I am working a few other bits and pieces, new version will be deployed to github link soon.
I think my witness is only about three weeks old. I am hoping I get full-time work soon so I can buy a mini-pc so I have a backup node on site (and another one off site) at the home of another hive witness in my city who also runs a witness, and then he can have a backup node at my house as well.
good luck - I am also searching for a new job, pretty difficult these days here - 5 years ago you 20 to apply for that one job, now it seems you have 1000 that want the same one :-)
The local job boards publish those numbers now, its a bit demoralising. I am looking for something that is going to be the right fit for me, as I think we have discussed before. Since April, my application volume has only been about ~40 roles, but I have had about 6 interviews in that time, then been ghosted :P
(A hard no from 2 of them)
being ghosted is one issue - most annoying to get always the same AI answer where you can see no one ever reads that application at all (one case was hard as it was a total 100% fit) - but that is life right now
In my last post I include some code enclosed in
<backticks>as actual text. I thought to point out that it may not be always best to exclude code, as some posts discuss coding and may use backticks or other mechanisms to display it as text rather than execute it.The filtering is searching for stuff that begins with http and image or video extensions - and other common markdown. It will still look inside of code blocks.The Flesch Kincaid level of code vs non code, I do not want to consider! (But it would be an interesting linguistics exercise)
what an awesome job you have done with this tool , it gives great insight on my way of posting .
but ... i also found a "bug "
it's actualy a cross post so it shouldn't be counted as a post .
I will need to work on improving the logic to detect cross posts, I thought looking for the string hive-xxxxxx at the end of a URL would nail it, but I will need to look for posts with the same title, and similar date ranges (within 7 days) and then remove all but the first incidence from the data.
Thanks for finding that.
glad to be able to help to improve things , maybe the same title and 0 images can help to narrow down the search ?
This is amazing, and exactly what I needed right now. I used to download my post content with Hive Post Downloader, but that seems to have gone offline right at the point where I wanted to pull down the text of a series of posts I made a while back. The plan is to use them as a framework for total re-writing and publication as a novel - probably a crazy idea, but what the heck 😁
I love the clear UI you've made to go with this, it really helps visualise what is going on. If you're up for suggestions (sorry, more work !) it might be useful to find a way to add in an analysis of short form content. I appreciate that because they're effectively comments and several front-ends have a short form section it might be a challenge to segregate short form posts from subsequent replies and other more general comments elsewhere.
Definitely earned a follow and witness vote ! Thank you 😀
The only thing the download function here (at least for CSV) doesn't preserve is paragraphs and line breaks. I am not sure if the json will do that - to be honest, I didn't test that :P
I did write a quick little python script for myself to convert the csv content into markdown files which I now have loaded into my obsidian vault (which is what I use for writing) so I have access to my old content when I do so the same.
I am working on a science fiction collection of short stories, and have a few other "half novels" that I've written into the chain in the past that I should probably edit, polish and publish somewhere where they might have the chance of ongoing revenue.
What is your novel going to be about?
Regarding short form content - that is not something I am interested in analysing - along the lines of threads, snaps etc, a) there is too much data, and b) I like long form content.
To be honest I'll probably end up re-doing all the paragraph and line breaks anyway as I edit posts into novel format. So not having them in the export isn't a big deal, but with a little bit of arthritis in my hands it'll be nice not having to re-type all the actual text again !
I'll have to read your scifi posts - it's very much the genre I tend to write in, although the one I'm working on now is very much at the Space Opera end of the spectrum. I've created a pretty decent body of Hive posts all set in the same universe, some as standalones and others as short serials, and two longer serials that have the potential to be turned into novels or novellas.
I hear you on short form content ! Quite a few people seem to use it as their chosen medium, but whenever I've dipped into it I rapidly come back to long form content again.
I think we've crossed paths before. I dont remember if I sent you to my "best" story, but here it is: https://peakd.com/hive-161155/@holoz0r/fiction-atomic-origins
I'm sure we've bumped into each other occasionally in various communities ! You hadn't sent me that story, but I'm glad you have now, it's amazing 😀
Cool nice job. I’m gonna crank up the tinternet in a little bit to have a proper gander .
I think the best function for this apart from finding out you have a writing level of a 13 year old who'se hormones are all over the shop, but the way you can bring up all your posts and find some historic posts really easy. Thats great. WOOF!!
I just discovered that, and the execrable task of scrolling through my back catalog to find posts to accurately cite may be a thing of the past. WooHoo!
I was telling the bearded man just that . He may have stumbled upon Hive's most valuable tool without intending to make it Hive's most valuable tool. 🤣
Let me (and everyone else you know) what you think by simply replying to this comment, or putting it on a billboard or however you wish to communicate your lamentations and despair to me.
It's amazing. I have the post readability of a high school sweetheart. So it is very accurate. I better not have work find out about my posting times. 👀
Impressive! While I don't read the number of posts I used to, this one (reblogged by @shanibeer) stood out and I was not disappointed.
Here is my readability graph:
Not too surprising really. Right, wrong, or indifferent, at least anyone who has "met" me would find that I am consistent.
What was surprising?
"Counter" to "conventional wisdom" here on Hive, my higher word count, "University" level posts were the ones generating the greatest response. 👍 The engagement with whatever I chose to write was always my greatest motivator.
A couple of "continuous improvement" suggestions, for your consideration:
Very nice work on this tool, @holoz0r. I hope you are amply rewarded for the clear effort you have put into it! 🫡
Remarkable consistency! I try to write across a variety of styles and formats myself - and I do enjoy writing technical, flowery prose sometimes, but my "natural voice" probably leans toward the more complex.
I like the "counter" and "unconventional" wisdom revealed here - hopefully curators will be able to use this as a tool to improve their decision making.
Simply the most useful and intelligent tool I've seen here on Hive! I LOVE IT! I found out about it through @kaonashi's post. I didn't even have time to read your post here, but I had to come and comment. I'll definitely give you a sincere shoutout later, after taking a cold, hard look at my own profile, hehe. THANK YOU, man!
There's a newer post documenting upcoming bug fixes and features, I am trying to finish this tool this week:
https://peakd.com/hive-186392/@holoz0r/hive-report-card-changes-and-improvements
Visualization is top-notch and after watching the data shown somehow my mind got relaxed.
This is fascinating. I love tools that go into deeper analysis like this. I've been publishing posts very actively for more than 4 years now, so I'm very curious about the information that I'll find. Thank you very much for creating and offering a tool that allows us to get a clearer perspective on what we share. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
That’s very interesting.
I really thought my posts are easy to read especially when I include some humour and draw the reader into the story. When I describe the photos /my adventures.
Didn’t expect most in professional readability as they are not hard to read (so I thought haha).
Great tool, thanks for sharing en giving these insights.
!HUG
There was a design oversight in the tool. It was taking into account any markdown, URLs, or links to images. I've just fixed it, and tested it on your account:
As you use a lot of images on your post (18.22 on average!) this increased your writing complexity unintentionally due to my design oversight. It should be more accurate now that I have addressed this issue.
Aha, that makes a lot of sense. I do use a lot of photos. Looks much better now for sure.
Thanks for the adjustment.
I like this tool, and will use it occasionally to track my posts and writing.
I am the look out for other bugs and issues, so let me know if others come up in your use of the tool!
Thank you for your interest in it, it is really appreciated! I am sure this will be useful to everyone on Hive!
Ok will do.
If I check my last post my word count is 1324 with 29 photos in the post itself.
Looking in the tool it says in the post history (newest to oldest) section 1 to 3 (2 cross posts) of that post the word count is only 42 (x2) with 0 photos and at 3. Only 239 words with 65 images, it looks a bit off?
You are welcome, happy to help and try new tools, to report back.
Good catch. Cross Posts are technically posts on the chain. I will see what I can do to ensure that these are filtered out. I don't cross post much (if at all) - so I did not see this come up when I was testing my own data. This will make the tool even more accurate :)
Working on a solution now, which will likely be "If duplicate titles, de-deuplicate by retaining the earliest (oldest) post, with the highest word count... (Probably using the perm link)
I'll use your account to test my fixes further :D
Great, let me know any updates. :)
Would be interesting to see the changes.
Lovely tool, thank you!
I appreciate your support!
Nearly 300,000 words!
Just started exploring it, love being able to look at posts by readability levels. Makes it really easy to start developing collections as well. It has been such a pain in the past trying to find a post I wrote years ago and scrolling through years and years of posts. With the index, it's very easy to flick through and hop over all those inconsequential or time-limited posts.
It's great as it is, and a couple of things occurred to me:
On the recent posts to the handwritten community where I'm writing with a specific purpose (as opposed to throwing up a blog), I've been tracking engagement - page views, unique page views, average time (using peakd's dash board) - but also, manually, exploring things like how many comments in how many conversations and length of comments. I guess using something like the readability scores for comments would also give an indication about the depth/level of engagement? Were commenters engaging with complex ideas, for example, so there was some indication of how comments were extending ideas, sharing learning (and any other assumptions).
I've been thinking a lot about tag strategy/architecture so that it is easy for readers of a specific blog to find other similar posts in the back catalogue. So as part of engagement, it might interesting to view which tags/combinations of tags are getting responses in terms of views/comments etc.
I haven't used tags on comments (yet), but that would be interesting, too, especially for engagement.
Which brings me to another thought: I've had quite long periods when I haven't published a post, but I have published quite long (maybe 200 words) comments.
Anyway, these are all laters, but I thought it might be helpful to let you have some of the ideas that I've been pre-occupied with, as I've thinking about the new outward facing blogs that I'm setting up.
Firstly, your comment deserves a vote from @topcomment
This was something I struggled with too, so I made a gosh darn tool!
I will see what I can do. I could add another row of buttons, I suppose, to collection of posts at the bottom - another alternative is to just download the CSV, load it into your favored spreadsheet application, and filter by date. I don't want to build a spreadsheet application in a browser! It is probably better to do it offline, as you'll always have access. :P
It doesn't look like tag data is the in the response to the API endpoint I am querying, so I would need to go elsewhere and start to keep a database (not something I want to do) if we looked at tags.
There are way too many garbage comments on chain (not yours) - and I don't want to go diving too deeply into those at this stage as the data involved would be enormous given this tool's "quick and dirty" build!
I am going to look at building some stuff (with the help of LLM) to do with how I can derive an engagement score based on comments and complexity of the post.
Yeah, I appreciate the drudgery!
Sounds fabulous!
Take another look now. I hope what I added is what you were trying to communicate to me. :)
They look very pretty, thank you :)
Here's the summary feedback I got from an LLM:
Very helpful from a writer perspective.
Regarding engagement, is the chart tracking comments I receive, or comments I make? My assumption is that it's my comments, as I have rarely seen anyone else leave >2000 word comments, and there's more than a dozen of those.
Also, it is a bit difficult for my ancient eyes to clearly see the razor thin blue lines in the chart of word and pic counts. Is it possible to choose say, yellow, or could that be possible without busting your chops? The colors you have chosen do create a pleasant palette, but with as many posts as you have made in 8 years, I simply can not clearly see the blue in the mix of gray background and green lines. Mine is but half of yours, but still is very indistinct to my failing vision.
It is tracking the "children" of your posts, so comments that are written by others, to you, on your posts.
I plan on doing a weekly, monthly, yearly aggregations as well as keeping the daily chart. I should have implemented that from the start, it is one of the first things my previous corporate overlords would have asked for.
That way it will be far less bars - I will also see if I can get the LLM to help me implement an option to zoom in / out on the chart for better (hah!) readability.
Apologies I missed your remarks, I received a lot of replies and suggestions for this tool, which I am working on currently :)
I have a list, I will work through it, and I will report back with a new post for those that are interested with the new features, as there are likely to be mean more usability features introduced.
Then version three will probably be a clean up and segregation of the code into multiple files instead of one monolithic block as it currently is. This comment likely forms the bulk of my new post on the topic, just without the features listed. Using it as a thinking space.
Thank you.
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What a fun tool, thanks for creating this! It's interesting to look through the statistics on my posting history.
I created it mainly because it was something I wanted to do for a long time, and thought... well, I don't have a job, so I'll make myself one. It didn't take nearly as long as I anticipated as it would.
It turned out nicely! Good work!
Man, this tool is fantastic. I remember seeing a similar tool before, but it wasn't this detailed and it worked very slowly. It couldn't fetch all my posts, but this one managed to fetch 948 posts in about a minute. I'm grateful to everyone who contributes to Hive, you've earned my Witness vote.
Thank you. It will probably be a little bit slower once I implement all the features that I am working on from the various suggestions given by people so far, but not by much :)
Impressive tool! I really like the way it classifies posts into levels. That's a clever and helpful feature.
I know I'm not the strongest writer myself. I often try to strike a balance between making my posts easy to read without making them feel too basic. It’s always a bit of a challenge to find the right level for the audience you want to reach.
Being a non-native English speaker adds an extra layer of difficulty and on top of that, being dyslexic doesn’t help either. 😅
But luckily, tools like AI have made a big difference for me. They really help smooth out the rough edges and give a bit of confidence when sharing content.
Wondering if i would write more code style post what that would do to the score 🤣
Does this also take snaps posts into account, also wondering here how that would influence (for the record i have not been using snaps a lot once or twice)?
No, it doesn't take snaps, threads etc into account. I don't want to judge someone on what they had for breakfast. This is about the more substantial meals.
I feel like there is not much value in short form content. Sure, you can make a lot of impact with a few words, but when some of that "impact" is interrogated at a deeper level, it may just be a stone at the bottom of a lake.
Amazing! This is a valuable tool. Imagine a tool that captures all my action Hive in a glance. This is awesome.
Please, does it have an App?
It should work fine in mobile browser. No need for it to be an app.
Alright! Thanks for the feedback.
NICE! I love when tools like this come out so we can see data cleanly and easily!
I have a big list of improvements thanks to the comments left, working through the comments so I can have a loooong to do list :)
Spectacular!👏
To make a personal assessment of our performance, we need to read the statistics and understand the numbers.
We truly are statistics and numbers in this technological universe.
I'm happy with my "Postgraduate degree."😎
All that's left is to know how many photos are in color and how many are in black and white.🤣🫢
I'm not doing bw vs colour! All pixels are valuable! (But some pixels are more valuable!)
😀
a very interesting idea, as a relatively new at HIVE, I would like to analyse my page and get insights that will be helpful to improve the performance of my blog. I would like to get data for my page but couldnt get where exactly can I do it, could you please share the link for the newcomer? :) thanks a lot!
The link to the tool was in the post, but here it is: https://holoz0r.github.io/HiveReportCard/
thanks a lot! I'm sure it was but I couldnt see it somehow. thanks for sharing once again!
witness voted, love your Tool ! <3
i have no idea what the flesch score means :D
It is just how easy your writing is to read for different levels of education, its been around a long time as a metric. azircon explained it well in his post on my tool.
I love it, I never expected to see such a good summary. I noticed a lot of things here. The surprising thing is that there is a good balance.
This is a crazy number: 1,585,257 words.
Another thing that surprised me is that I have written more on Sundays than on Fridays. Hahaha.
This is definitely great. I loved it!
Wahh! I like your tools, thanks for this. I can see all my post and I'll know if they're readable.
mine is all high school and middle school and only one is college hahaha. soon when I post more, I'll use this again. I'm just new to the hive. hehe thank you again for this.
Simple English is good English. The more complicated a text is, the harder it is for people to read, understand, and engage with it. Not everyone has English as their first language, so it is important to communicate with clarity.
Yes i agree, Thankyou.
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There seems to be a some counting issues. My blog is very small so it's easy to count and compare. The tool says I have 20 posts yet I have 22. And it double counts images. All my post with images are counted as having two images when they only have one.
Thank you, I had a look at your blog and used it for some additional testing. I've now released a new version - and there are still some bugs - but I am hoping that I can track them all on the new post which outlines additional improvements that I have made.
Very cool tool! Great job!
The stats nerd in me loves this. When I'm not on my phone I'm def going to try this.
I think it's something new and truly interesting for mastering and understanding what we publish. It's a tool that will help us evaluate the quality of our content.
Thank you very much.
It is a terrific instrument that seems both practical and revealing. I personally enjoy the fact that it doesn’t just present surface-level statistics, but gets into the nitty-gritty of writing patterns, readability, and publication trends over the years. You would be surprised at how much you can extract out of the posting history of a particular person and then use it to improve yourself. This might be an excellent wakeup call to writers because of the fact that their style tends to change over time. This is certainly worth marking to see what I write like.
The writing style hopefully changes for their readability to be better. :) If It doesn't, either they are talking about really complicated topics, or are maybe having trouble expressing themselves.
For as long as it has been said, it never has. The majority of people don't like the stiff upper lip approach. Instead of learning from the errors of your ways, you dig your heels in and create a way to further alienate people who don't write as good as others. You literally suck all the fun out of posting, having fun interacting, and drain hive of it's potential growth.
The easier content is to understand the broader of an audience can engage. I dont make any rules. I am just a single person. :)
I might still be delusional enough to believe that Hive will be a good place, but I am happy to stay firmly in the delusion that people can change and be better.
Data is just data. We are what we measure.
If we don't know where we are now, where we have been, we cannot influence at all where we are going.
Now not bow, and you forgot your apostrophe in dont.
Life is a flow of people going in different directions. As much as you may wish, the minority, not majority, will flow into your intellectual stimuli. It's that attitude as to why Hive doesn't grow.
Thank you for pointing out my errors. I've edited the comment to correct them. I was typing on my phone while watching my dinner cook.
In response to your comment, I have a question: What is it that you think will make HIVE grow?
It's probably a done deal by now with the market so saturated and people earning incentives for blogging on more popular platforms. The no to low incentive platforms have gained popularity over the years that has given them a study flow of participants. Then there's that problem that even if Hive could grow to those standards, the system can't handle that. Something someone wrote about years ago. Hive, apparently, can't handle becoming an Instagram, FB, X type of platform. I don't know if that still holds true. At this point, you'd have to offer incentives large enough to entice people to sign up. Like blog on Hive for a year, write so many post, engage with posters, enter to win 5000 hive, or if you want intellectual participation, enter to win 5000 of hive to put toward college education writing about college experiences, what you are planning to major on, etc., because the field is loaded and it would take quite a bit to offer people to even take a look at Hive. I think Snapie was a good idea, but same applies to that, you got a loaded field of similar sites people can and have spent their time on. The system now where everyone gets ten upvotes, and to make it count it has to be 26 cents, isn't going to hit it really.
That is kind of how Medium tends to be currently, at least, from my incredibly limited experience with it.
But all the "Free" content (they are the product) people publish on reddit, game store fronts in the form of reviews, lengthy facebook ramblings, or beautifully produced videos that languish somewhere on vimeo or the back-alleys of YouTube...
Getting anything for your content is something that is always going to be welcomed by creators.
Engaging across their platforms, however, is the biggest key.
Yes, very true, but first you got to get their attention away from all your competition, offering them zero to penny upvotes isn't going to hit it. You throw in the lack of engagement to even generate those pennies, people rather engage on a free active blog than give two shits about the pennies. I live in an area surrounded by college kids, not only do you have to compete against your competition, you have to compete with their time, and since most come from good families, drive nice cars, what you have to offer to them is zilch to get them to focus on writing on Hive. You make the rules of engagement, have to post and be actively engaged on your blog page, they then get a few friends to sign up to engage with them. At the end of the year, if your lucky, despite not being the winner of the contest, a few may continue on.
Now, on the other side of the spectrum, not so intellectually strung, and what proves to work really well on here, offer a contest for the hottest college babes out there. Not only will they get all their guy friends to sign up to vote for them, you'll have everyone on here drooling and voting for them. Get Snapie to swing into action, sending out notifications on their blog they got noticed by Snapie, or some crazy creative thing like that, have Snapie give them an upvote, and mention they could earn more upvotes by using Snapie. Have Snapie create contest directly focused toward fun and easy things that don't take much time out of a busy college kids life, like mention Snapie's looking for the ugliest dog on the planet, earn XX amount of Hive if your dog comes out being voted the ugliest. Just easy, outlandish stuff like that. Hell, meno went for upvoting some girl who had shit falling out of her closet, so shit like that works, fun and entertaining shit. Get crazy with it, have snapie do a "do you have short shorts" contest to the song, flashy crazy stuff like that. For guys do a we're looking for the most souped up car contest. The more short interest you can expose Hive to will likely lead to growth from those who happen to notice that writers with a lot of intellectual stimuli, make good money posting, but first you have to get their attention, offering up penny upvotes isn't going to do it.
This is an amazing tool in soooooo many ways. I have been needing this for a long time now, it is good to see that someone else thought about it.
I already know the readability stuff will go medieval on me, just by taking a look at how it is calculated. I disagree with the very idea, since it seems to assume some kind of median reader. Readability means a lot of different things to people with different educations interests, AND contexts. But that is just a tiny detail that in no way diminishes the usefulness of this tool.
I am already excited to see what new metrics you will add in the future.
The formula has been around for ages, I am not a linguistic professional, so instead of proposing something new, I opted to use something that is well accepted and widely used.
Word count, sentence length is pretty basic because this formula cannot take into account the frequency thay the word is used in other contexts etc.
Thank you for your kind words and support.
After watching my results there were some really interesting results. The fact that my less readable posts were the ones to get the most engagement was a true surprise. Guess the hare do leaps from wherever least expected.
The formula thing is a truly minor detail, guess in the end you had to use one metric or another. In the end it is useful.
Good work, HP numbers are just half the game, content is the other one.
That's the reason I didnt (and won't) include earnings on this tool. If it wasn't for the content, what would differentiate hive from every other project? Not much.
Absolutely stunning!
These metrics will definitely help not only curators, but also content creators themselves who are interested in keeping exhaustive track of their activity on the blockchain.
It says many of my posts are written at a high school or post-graduate level. I think it says less about my prose and more about how pathetic educational standards have become.
I beg to differ. How pathetic they've always been!
Awesome tool! Does it also consider comments? Also, short content?
No comments. No short content. Too much data to process, and I am more interested in long form content.
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Good stuff 👏, very interesting insight into my own account.
Guess I know what to work on now 🫢😱
Thanks for this tool! I find it quite useful, as you say, for those creators who seek to constantly improve like me, it is something that means a lot. :)
Added to bookmarks, thank you!
Very rarely I am impressed by a single post or tool this much! I like to say a lot but it will require a post.
Those who knows me knows that high praise like this rarely comes from me!
Congratulations and thank you!
Thank you, I look forward to you finding flaws in the methodology so that I can improve the tool further. It is not perfect, but it is useful, I hope.
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Not that it affects me in any way, but I'd say it should be some kind of criteria when filtering out Actifit posts, regarding length. Some are not 10 words like the majority, but go to 400 - 500 words and good content. Not many, but there are some.
Yes, I thought of this when writing that dot point out, so I think I will leave them included for the time being.
The low word count will just illustrate those who post with consistently low effort to the (main) parts of hive :)
Thanks a lot!
My favourite stats:
It is so good to see yourself climbing word count mountain :)