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> The number of /.../ people reached

**I disagree** that this would be a useful piece of information.

Yes, I know that Some Other Q&A network displays such a number; relatively prominently, even.

I have always considered it mostly a gimmick, because quite frankly, it doesn't really *tell you* anything; especially, anything in my opinion particularly useful. And even if it did, it's not *actionable*; there's really nothing you can do directly to influence it either way.

It can give you a *very rough idea* of how many visits there have been to pages where you have either the question or an answer (while telling you nothing about which of those it is, or whether that traffic is spread out evenly or focused on a few of your contributions), but that tells you nothing at all about the in my opinion much more interesting metric: *how useful was your contribution to them?*

The latter of which, unfortunately, while actionable to some degree, probably borders on the impossible to measure directly. It therefore has to be measured indirectly, for example through votes.

So if anything, I personally would be far more interested in a more detailed vote breakdown, both votes given and votes received.