How do you track topic performance?

[Dawn (Dawn Albrecht)]

How do you track the performance of different topics? I need metrics to show which topics are most important to our community members without having to go into each topic every day. Suggestions?

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

You can look at the Top topic list available on the hamburger menu:
https://meta.discourse.org/top

I personally never use it so I’ve no idea how good it is but there are topics that discuss this:

What makes a topic appear in the "Top" filter?

I think the success of Top relies heavily on the forum being active. As for the algorithm, hopefully you are more math savvy than I am. It’s been many years since I learned, and have since only rarely used, logarithms. I know what they are and I can use them, but I am stonewalled when it comes to “reading” them. What is clear to me by looking at the file @Pad_Pors linked to is that the multiplier settings influence the “weight” of views and likes and the settings (via log, ack!) affect the “s…

P.S.

You can alter the weightings in the settings. Here’s the defaults:

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

You can also sort the topic list by views, by clicking on the view column.