Friday, August 15, 2014

2014-08-15 Scribd.com messing up with readership stats?

Over the years I have posted noumerous legal records on my Scribd.com archive. [1]
And over the years, I have periodically published on this blog the Scribd.com archive stats of overall readership, and readership per record. [2-5]
Most recently, the read counts were around 1,000 and at times 2,000 per day. [2]
And the total read counts on the archive reached over 1.4 millions.
The service also provided readership per day for any period you selected, with detailed readership per record during the same period.
And then, Scribd.com decided to improve its stats page: [3]

New 'My Stats' Page


Alison
posted this on Jul 14 04:47 PM
Wondering what happened to your 'My Stats' page? We've made a big change to it recently which may come as a surprise. Here's what's going on: Scribd's made it easier for one and all by simplifying the whole page and reporting system. Now, we'll be better at consistently reporting the information to you and you'll still be able to easily see how many views your work on Scribd are getting whenever you want. 
And with the implementation of the New "My Stats" Page:
  • You can no longer view the readership per day.
  • You can no longer view the readership per record in a given time period.
  • The total "reads" on the archive over its lifetime dropped more than 10 fold - to 117,000! That is less reads than I head in mid 2010, a few months after launching the site...  [5]
The "New Stats":

Human Rights Alert, NGO


Somehow, it appears counterproductive for a business, which persumably profits from the reading of records it maintains, to make a mistake of this nature...
Request for clarifications was sent to Scribd.com Support today.
LINKS:
[1] Human Rights Alert archive on Scribd.com
http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert
[2] 2014-07-01 Most read on Human Rights Alert (NGO) Scribd recently
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/2014-07-01-most-read-on-human-rights.html
[3] 2013-12-22 2013 - Most read on scribd.com - Human Rights Alert (NGO)
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/13-12-22-2013-most-read-on-scribdcom.html
[4] 2013-08-05 Human Rights Alert (NGO) on Scribd.com: Reading stats for the period January 1 – August 5, 2013
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/13-08-05-human-rights-alert-ngo-on.html
[5] 2010-10-05 Happy Birthday! 150,000 Reads on Human Rights Alert Scribd Account!
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2010/10/10-10-05-happy-birthday-150000-reads-on.html
[6] 2014-08-15 New 'My Stats' Page - Scribd Support Desk
http://support.scribd.com/entries/87197156-New-My-Stats-Page

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Aug 15 01:46 AM
Over the years I have posted noumerous legal records on my Scribd.com archive. [1]
And over the years, I have periodically published on my blog the Scribd.com archive stats of overall readership, and readership per record. [2-5]
Most recently, the read counts were around 1,000 and at times 2,000 per day. [2]
And the total read counts on the archive reached over 1.4 millions.
The service also provided readership per day for any period you selected, with detailed readership per record during the same period.
And then, Scribd.com decided to improve its stats page: [3]
New 'My Stats' Page
Alison
posted this on Jul 14 04:47 PM
in Share
Wondering what happened to your 'My Stats' page? We've made a big change to it recently which may come as a surprise. Here's what's going on: Scribd's made it easier for one and all by simplifying the whole page and reporting system. Now, we'll be better at consistently reporting the information to you and you'll still be able to easily see how many views your work on Scribd are getting whenever you want.
And with the implementation of the New "My Stats" Page:
* You can no longer view the readership per day.
* You can no longer view the readership per record in a given time period.
* The total "reads" on the archive over its lifetime dropped more than 10 fold - to 117,000! That is the reads I had in middle of 2010, about half a year after launching the site... [5]
"THE NEW STATS":
Human Rights Alert, NGO
human-rights-alert.blogspot.com/
1.7K
FOLLOWERS
21
FOLLOWING
2.0K
PUBLISHED
117K
VIEWS
5.0K
LIKES
Somehow, it appears counterproductive for a business, which persumably profits from the reading of records it maintains, to make a mistake of this nature...
Request for clarifications was sent to Scribd.com Support today.
Joseph Zernik, PhD
LINKS:
[1] Human Rights Alert archive on Scribd.com
http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert
[2] 2014-07-01 Most read on Human Rights Alert (NGO) Scribd recently
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/2014-07-01-most-read-on-human-rights.html
[3] 2013-12-22 2013 - Most read on scribd.com - Human Rights Alert (NGO)
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/13-12-22-2013-most-read-on-scribdcom.html
[4] 2013-08-05 Human Rights Alert (NGO) on Scribd.com: Reading stats for the period January 1 – August 5, 2013
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/13-08-05-human-rights-alert-ngo-on.html
[5] 2010-10-05 Happy Birthday! 150,000 Reads on Human Rights Alert Scribd Account!
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2010/10/10-10-05-happy-birthday-150000-reads-on.html
[6] 2014-08-15 New 'My Stats' Page - Scribd Support Desk
http://support.scribd.com/entries/87197156-New-My-Stats-Page
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