Managing Your Images
In the Dashboard, one of the links is to Manage Images. This page has a list of your images plus several stats. In this article, I’ll explain what those stats mean.
Hits: The number of times your page has been viewed by unique people. If somebody goes to a page a 2nd time, it is not counted.
7 Days: The number of times you page has been viewed in the last 7 days. This number is updated once per day. The percent next to this number is the difference between the last 7 days and the 7 days before that. This will allow you to see if traffic to your picture is trending up or down.
30 Days: This is exactly the same as 7 days, except that it’s over the last 30 days.
Score: This is a number between 1 and 100. The higher the number the better. There are many different factors to determine the score including the total number of views, the total number of recent views (as seen in your 7 and 30 day columns), the number of comments, vote percentile, and several other factors. The score is on a curve. The higher the number, the harder it is to reach it; For example, it’s much harder to go from 60 to 70 than it is to go from 50 to 60. This number is a large factor in how the gallery pages are sorted. Generally, to improve a score, it requires more activity on that page (more visitors, comments, etc). One of the best ways to do this is to make sure pictures use descriptive names and enough of a description that somebody searching for that picture will find it. Sometimes, we change how we are calculating the scores and this often causes large changes. If you notice that all of a sudden most of your scores are different, this is probably why.
Votes (Percentile): The first number is how many people have rated your picture. A person has to be logged in to rate a picture and can only rate each picture once. The second number is the percentile of all of the ratings versus all of the other ratings on the site. This is a number between 1 and 100. For example, if your percentile is 91, that means that it has a better rating than 90% of the other pictures on the site. Any picture with 0 ratings shows a percentile of 50 (which isn’t technically accurate), but it basically means it’s exactly in the center for other calculations such as the score.
We don’t display the actual results of the ratings because we run everything through several math formulas to ensure that the ratings are accurate and to make it much harder to sabotage the system. It is important to rate pictures that you both like and dislike. This helps the math formulas become more accurate. If you rate everything as a 10, how good is a 10 really?
Thanks. We hope that this helps you understand the numbers on the Manage Pictures page better.
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