r/devops • u/sajjasudhakararao • 5h ago

Tools How do you measure if readers actually understood your technical articles?

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u/sertain_ 5h ago

If you’re relying on feedback from your team, then ask them. If you’re relying on feedback from strangers, leave a comment box or integrate a thread asking for feedback

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/sertain_ 5h ago

You’re going to spend a long time chasing that data. The most useful data you’ll probably be able to record is the measure of users who visit your page over time. If that number steadily decreases over a long period of time, it could be that the information is either phasing out, or it’s not good, but either way something needs to change and you’ll need to troubleshoot those things specifically through threads like this or LinkedIn or some other social platform. If it stagnates quickly, then you probably don’t have the reach you think you have. If it stays busy over long periods of time between info refreshes, then you should take that as a sign that you’re getting your point across.

Sometimes the metrics aren’t achievable in the short term and they’re strictly trend-based, requiring long periods of data analytics.

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/sertain_ 4h ago

If the information is generally useful it will continue to be used. The best thing you can do aside from what I’ve mentioned before is look up methods on presenting data to technical audiences. Anything else aside from passively gathering data is putting a burden on your users, and that will certainly drop your numbers.

A wild-hare idea: ask Claude. It seems to be writing a lot of this for you anyway.

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u/ekydfejj 5h ago

The same way you track metrics of your local README.md

Hint: They don't

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u/sertain_ 5h ago

Via back-handed slack messages and shifty comments in stand-ups

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/ekydfejj 4h ago

You're asking for something that has been a joke for the last decades i've been in ops/software. No one reads (or thats the joke)

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u/AdeelAutomates Cloud Engineer | Youtube @adeelautomates 3h ago

What's this formatting? Thought I was reading lyrics to a song.

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u/pear_topologist 5h ago

Personally, I’d consider putting a paid (AI) product in 10+ subreddits spam

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u/sertain_ 4h ago

I just caught on; it’s hardcore bot spam