See how much your numbers moved after a change.

1. 01

   What changed, and how much

   How much your numbers actually moved after a thumbnail, title, or traffic-source change — flagged in plain language the day it happens, never asserted as the cause. The reading YT Studio doesn't assemble.

2. 02

   One plain reading, daily

   Your most recent day in one line and one number — what happened, what changed, and what's likely next, shown beside the range it could fall in and its own track record — instead of a wall of dashboards to assemble yourself.

3. 03

   The whole record, downloadable

   Every video and every quiet day as a single self-describing SQLite file with AI-ready prompts — the same data the dashboards read, nothing held back.

A real reading, from today’s channel

@theartharrisonArt Harrison

First-week views: 181 lately vs 13

Through 2026-08-03

The home page features a different public channel every day; this is today’s.

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4 channels are public — each in the open, refreshed daily.

What does connecting a channel do?

Signing in with YouTube gives a channel its own dashboard — every video, every quiet day, every metric, refreshed daily. It starts private: only the signed-in owner can open it, and to everyone else the page does not exist.

What access does it ask for?

Two read-only Google scopes and nothing more: youtube.readonly (the channel itself — its videos, titles, and thumbnails) and yt-analytics.readonly (the owner-only analytics — views, impressions, click rate, retention, traffic sources). Both are read-only, so the site can read a channel's stats but cannot upload, edit, or remove anything on the channel. No monetization or revenue access is requested. The key Google issues is stored encrypted and is never part of anything published.

Is a connected channel public or private?

Every channel starts private — only its signed-in owner can open the dashboard. Going public is a separate, owner-only choice that publishes the channel by name, with real titles and real numbers visible to everyone. One part of that is permanent: once a channel is public, copies of what was visible can be made outside the site — search caches, web archives, saved downloads — and going private later stops publishing here but cannot recall copies that already exist.

When does the data show up?

Dashboards build and refresh on the daily build, around 06:00 UTC, so a newly connected channel's first dashboard lands with the next one — typically ten to fifteen minutes for a visibility change, longer if a daily build is already running. There is no fake progress bar. YouTube finalizes each day's numbers two to three days later, so the most recent days fill in gradually.

What is the shared pool?

A separate choice, off by default: a channel can add its stats to the consent-gated shared pool that powers the reference readings — the typical-for-channels-like-this bands shown across dashboards. Aggregates never name a channel; public pooled channels are listed by name on the directory. Turning it off deletes the contributed data on the next daily build.

What happens on disconnect?

Disconnecting is available any time from the owner's account. It revokes the site's access to the channel's YouTube data and deletes the channel's stored data, including its private analytics. Its public page stops serving within seconds; the page and its listing in the site directory are removed on the next daily build. It cannot be undone — reconnecting starts fresh.