92% of dev.to posts get zero reactions, and the title advice does not change that
I set out to test the advice. Every few weeks someone publishes a piece explaining what works on dev.to, and the recommendations are always the same: put a number in the title, use all four tags, post on a Tuesday morning, add a cover image. I wanted to check those claims against the platform's own data, because dev.to has a public API and nobody seems to have pointed it at this question. I got…
A recent study on the dev.to platform found that 92% of posts receive no reactions at all, and 95.7% get no comments. Despite popular advice to include numbers in the title, use all four tags, post on a Tuesday morning, and add a cover image, these tactics do not significantly improve a post's reception. The platform's curated feed presents a misleading picture, as the actual site shows a much lower reaction rate.
Factors such as post length, title structure, tag choice, and an author's experience appear to have a more substantial impact on a post's success.
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