What could be good candidates for content health metrics of a community project?
To choose correct content health metrics we need to understand what health or success means for the content. I think we can say the following.
Healthy content is the content that people look for.
Therefor, there are three important health metrics for the content:
- Number of pieces of content created per period of time.
- Number of page views that all content received.
- Number of page views per piece of content in the database.
We can think about content like a commodity which we exchange for people’s attention. The metrics above show the effectiveness of creating a new “commodity,” how much attention we receive for the commodity we have, and what the average “value” of a unit of content is.
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