What metrics a platform gives you — and which it gives nobody
An analytics tool is chosen from a feature list, and then you hit something else: the platform does not give out the figure at all. Not to the tool, not to you. The tool is not at fault and cannot fix it — but you find this out after you have paid.
So what comes first here is not the list of what exists but the list of what nobody has. It is shorter and more useful.
All of it comes from the platforms' own documentation, with a link to the document. Analytics tools' claims about what they can do are not included here: those are the tools' claims, and they are collected separately.
What it gives nobody
Direct caveats from the documentation: thresholds, withdrawn metrics, availability windows. This is what no tool can get around.
Instagram. A threshold on the number of followers: "Some metrics are not available on Instagram accounts with fewer than 100 followers"; "follower_count and online_followers metrics are not available on Instagram business or creator accounts with fewer than 100 followers" source, checked 2026-08-05
Instagram. "You cannot get insights for Facebook Pages"; API access "cannot be used to get data for media owned by personal Instagram accounts"; "You can only get insights for a single user at a time"; "Live video Instagram Media can only be read while they are being… source, checked 2026-08-05
Instagram. The impressions metric has been withdrawn: "deprecated for v22.0 and will be deprecated for all versions on April 21, 2025". For posts created on 2 July 2024 and later, a request for impressions after 21 April 2025 returns an error; the replacement is the views metric source, checked 2026-08-05
Instagram. "If insights data you are requesting does not exist or is currently unavailable the API will return an empty data set instead of 0 for individual metrics" source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "This endpoint returns organic statistics only. Sponsored activity is not counted in this endpoint." source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "Time-bound follower counts are aggregated and not segmented by facet"; "Time-bound follower statistics (queries that include a timeIntervals parameter) do not return demographic breakdown fields. The following fields are unsupported when a time range is… source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "This endpoint no longer returns totalFollowerCounts" source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "The results for any individual facet are limited to the top 100 results. For example, if a page has followers in more than 100 countries/regions, only the top 100 countries/regions will be returned." source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "Time-bound statistics is not supported for specific share queries"; "The /organizationalEntityShareStatistics endpoint doesn't support pagination"; "Shares with no actions or impressions are not included in the list of elements" source, checked 2026-08-05
LinkedIn. "The shareCount for the time-bound statistics won't match the lifetime statistics because the time-bound data won't include the count from instant reposts"; on likeCount: "This field can become negative when members who liked a sponsored share later unlike… source, checked 2026-08-05
Pinterest. "If Pin was created before 2023-03-20 lifetime metrics will only be available for Video and Idea Pin formats" source, checked 2026-08-05
Pinterest. "The reporting endpoints covered in this guide are only for organic Pins, any new performance a Pin receives once its been promoted will be reported on in our ad analytic endpoints" source, checked 2026-08-05
Pinterest. The rolled-up metrics for 1, 7 and 30 days are "unique to this method of fetching and not available in other analytics endpoints" source, checked 2026-08-05
RUTUBE. "How can I see the revenue for a specific video in the RUTUBE Studio app? At the moment there is no such option in the app, but you can view the analytics in the web version of Studio"; "Can the sections in the "Overview" tab of the RUTUBE Studio app be… source, checked 2026-08-05
RUTUBE. For a user with limited viewing rights "the "Monetization" section is not available for viewing" source, checked 2026-08-05
Telegram. The threshold for access to statistics is not published: "Administrators of channels of a certain size (the exact limit is a server-side config, returned in the can_view_stats flag of channelFull) can invoke stats.getBroadcastStats to get detailed channel statistics" source, checked 2026-08-05
Telegram. The Bot API reference has not a single method for obtaining the statistics of a channel or a group: the word "statistics" occurs there only in the descriptions of administrator rights — "access supergroup statistics" and "access channel statistics; for channels only" source, checked 2026-08-05
Telegram. About the channel statistics method it is said directly, "Only users can use this method"; a call on a supergroup gives the error BROADCAST_REQUIRED — "This method can only be called on a channel", and without rights — CHAT_ADMIN_REQUIRED, "You must be an admin in this chat to do this" source, checked 2026-08-05
Threads. There is no data earlier than the spring of 2024: "The earliest Unix timestamp that can be used is 1712991600" (13 April 2024); "User insights are not guaranteed to work before June 1, 2024" source, checked 2026-08-05
Threads. "Returned metrics do not capture nested replies' metrics"; "An empty array will be returned for REPOST_FACADE posts"; for a post that is itself a reply, the replies metric "includes only direct replies" source, checked 2026-08-05
Threads. The followers_count and follower_demographics metrics: "This metric does not support the since and until parameters" source, checked 2026-08-05
Threads. About views and shares the documentation says that they are "in development" source, checked 2026-08-05
TikTok. The list of Display API fields contains neither viewer demographics, nor retention, nor the sources of impressions, nor the number of unique viewers — only like_count, comment_count, share_count, view_count source, checked 2026-08-05
TikTok. "Videos returned are for the given user's public TikTok video posts"; "It is possible that the API returns less videos than the max count due to reasons such as videos deleted/marked as private by users etc." source, checked 2026-08-05
Twitch. There is no API access to the statistics of one's own channel — views, viewers, subscriptions, stream time — in the Twitch API reference: the Analytics section contains only reports on extensions and on games source, checked 2026-08-05
Twitch. The threshold for a game report is named as a number: "a report is available only if the game was broadcast for at least 300 minutes (5 hours) over the time period covered by the report" source, checked 2026-08-05
Twitch. "Clips data is available via the Get Videos API endpoint" — the game reports contain no data about clips; "New data fields may be added in new versions of the report" source, checked 2026-08-05
X (Twitter). "Non-public, organic, and promoted metrics are only available for posts created within the last 30 days." source, checked 2026-08-05
X (Twitter). The advertising API: "We do not support multi-segmentation" — a breakdown is possible only by one attribute at a time, and only from four of them: AGE, GENDER, METROS, PLATFORMS. Some of the ENGAGEMENT metrics "are not available at the account and funding… source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. The platform does not publish the thresholds at which it hides data: "The actual thresholds at which data is limited are not published and subject to change at YouTube's discretion". What gets limited: "Demographics data, such as age and gender", "Geographic… source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. "You won't see demographics data for private or unlisted videos, regardless of the amount of traffic"; "You won't see any geography data for the following, regardless of the amount of traffic: Realtime reports" and for private videos and videos available by link source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. "one-off search terms and URLs that drive little traffic may not show"; when a filter or a dimension that falls short of the threshold is selected, "only the top results are available" source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. Through API access: "YouTube Analytics API responses do not contain metric breakdowns for deleted items" source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. Withdrawn annotation metrics: "YouTube Analytics API reports only return data for the annotationClickThroughRate and annotationCloseRate metrics as of June 10, 2012. In addition, YouTube Analytics API reports only return data for the remaining annotation… source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. The export limit in the dashboard: "Downloaded reports are limited to 500 rows. Use the YouTube Reporting API to download more than 500 rows of data." source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube. The stipulation about revenue: "Estimated revenue metrics are subject to month-end adjustment and don't include partner-sold and partner-served advertising"; "Estimated earnings data in YouTube Analytics doesn't reflect invalid activity adjustments in real… source, checked 2026-08-05
VKontakte. "The statistics of posts are at present available only for communities with 5,000 members or more." source, checked 2026-08-05
VKontakte. "The method returns data for the 300 most recent posts published no earlier than 9 December 2015." source, checked 2026-08-05
VKontakte. The composition of the stats.get response is not disclosed in the documentation: "After successful execution it returns an object with statistics data" — with no list of fields source, checked 2026-08-05
VKontakte. The date_from and date_to parameters are "deprecated"; since version 5.86 timestamp_from and timestamp_to are used instead source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. "For videos published before 1 June 2019, the metric Subscriptions after viewing is unavailable." source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. The display thresholds are named as numbers: "Read-through map... The value is shown if the publication has gathered more than 100 read-throughs"; "View depth... The value is shown if the publication has gathered more than 100 views" source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. Thresholds in geography: "if there is not enough data for some city or country, it will be shown in the field Other. This field takes in all cities with a value below 0.5% and all countries with a value below 0.1%" source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. The dates before which there are no metrics: "You cannot view data earlier than 25 January 2022" (for subscribers); "You cannot view data on events earlier than 21 June 2021"; "Data on engaged viewing time has been counted since 1 August 2023. You cannot view… source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. The figures knowingly differ from what is visible under the publication: "All comments created during the selected period are counted, including deleted ones, so the number of real comments at the present moment may not match the number in the table"; the… source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen. Real-time statistics "do not go through preliminary processing and may contain robot and SEO traffic"; the data of this section "does not affect monetization" source, checked 2026-08-05
By platform
BiP
Who can access analytics at all. to sell through a service you need not a private account but a legal entity: before payment can be connected, «Firma Bilgileri Tanımı — Satışı yapacak olan servis sahibi firmanın adı, adresi ve iletişim bilgileri» is required (our translation: definition of… the payment interface documentation. The same place lists the payment channels with their codes: charging with reservation to the subscriber's account (10), direct charge to the account (11), bank… source, checked 2026-08-07
What it gives nobody. A threshold on the number of followers: "Some metrics are not available on Instagram accounts with fewer than 100 followers"; "follower_count and online_followers metrics are not available on Instagram business or creator accounts with fewer than 100 followers" a directly named threshold is a rare case; usually platforms keep the threshold hidden source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "You cannot get insights for Facebook Pages"; API access "cannot be used to get data for media owned by personal Instagram accounts"; "You can only get insights for a single user at a time"; "Live video Instagram Media can only be read while they are being… once a live broadcast has ended it is given to nobody — the figure cannot be obtained after the fact source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The impressions metric has been withdrawn: "deprecated for v22.0 and will be deprecated for all versions on April 21, 2025". For posts created on 2 July 2024 and later, a request for impressions after 21 April 2025 returns an error; the replacement is the views metric impressions no longer exist as a concept: comparing old and new periods by impressions is impossible source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "If insights data you are requesting does not exist or is currently unavailable the API will return an empty data set instead of 0 for individual metrics" an empty response and a zero are different things; analytics tools often draw a zero here, and then the figures diverge source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. an Instagram Business or Creator Account is required; personal accounts are not mentioned as supported Matches Hootsuite's requirement: a business account is needed on the PLATFORM side, not the service side source, checked 2026-07-27
Who can access analytics at all. Only "Instagram professional accounts" and an "Instagram Creator account"; personal accounts are not supported: API access "cannot be used to get data for media owned by personal Instagram accounts" switching the account to a professional one is a mandatory condition for any analytics source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. "User Metrics data is stored for up to 90 days"; "online_followers metric is only available for the last 30 days" deeper than 90 days there is no data, neither for the creator nor for a tool source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Account metrics: accounts_engaged, comments, engaged_audience_demographics, follows_and_unfollows, follower_demographics, impressions, likes, profile_links_taps, reach, replies, reposts, saves, shares, total_interactions, views developers.facebook.com is open to robots, checked on 5 August 2026 source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Metrics for an individual post: engagement, impressions, reach, comments, likes, views, and also total_comments, total_likes, total_views — the last three are "only available for Instagram API with Facebook Login" some of the metrics are given only with one of the two login methods — that is already a tie to the means of access rather than to the account type source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. follower_demographics and engaged_audience_demographics; they accept only a timeframe from the set last_14_days, last_30_days, last_90_days, prev_month, this_month, this_week and "do not support since or until"; the threshold is no fewer than 100 followers an arbitrary period for demographics cannot be set — only one of the six ready-made ones source, checked 2026-08-05
How delayed the update is. Data processing takes "up to 48 hours" the wording about the delay is given in a note to the metrics; the platform has no separate page about update times source, checked 2026-08-05
Kolesa
What is known about the audience. the owner reports: users aged 18–44 — 69%, men — 80%, women — 20% The owner's claim, with no independent verification source, checked 2026-07-28
Krisha
Who can access analytics at all. The rules distinguish two kinds of advertiser — a private individual (an «owner») and a professional participant (a company or specialist); the limits on the number of listings and on permissible activity differ between them The distinction exists in the rules, but the specific thresholds and duties of a professional account are not set out as figures in the text that was read. Recorded as partial deliberately: the… source, checked 2026-08-07
What it gives nobody. "This endpoint returns organic statistics only. Sponsored activity is not counted in this endpoint." a promoted post is not visible in the organic statistics — separate advertising API access is needed source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "Time-bound follower counts are aggregated and not segmented by facet"; "Time-bound follower statistics (queries that include a timeIntervals parameter) do not return demographic breakdown fields. The following fields are unsupported when a time range is… follower demographics for a chosen period cannot be obtained in principle: either a period with no breakdown, or a breakdown over all time source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "This endpoint no longer returns totalFollowerCounts" the metric has been withdrawn; the total number of followers is now taken by a different request — networkSizes in Organization Lookup source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "The results for any individual facet are limited to the top 100 results. For example, if a page has followers in more than 100 countries/regions, only the top 100 countries/regions will be returned." a rare case where the platform names the limit as a number source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "Time-bound statistics is not supported for specific share queries"; "The /organizationalEntityShareStatistics endpoint doesn't support pagination"; "Shares with no actions or impressions are not included in the list of elements" for an individual publication the day-by-day dynamics cannot be obtained — only the lifetime total source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "The shareCount for the time-bound statistics won't match the lifetime statistics because the time-bound data won't include the count from instant reposts"; on likeCount: "This field can become negative when members who liked a sponsored share later unlike… the platform itself admits that its own two figures will not agree and that the number of likes can go negative source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. The rw_organization_admin permission: "Manage organizations pages and retrieve reporting data. Restricted to organizations in which the authenticated member has the following role: ADMINISTRATOR" analytics is tied to the organization page and to the administrator role; for a personal profile it is a different set of endpoints source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. Posts: "The organizationalEntityShareStatistics endpoint returns share data only within the past 12 months, using a rolling 12-month window". Followers: "This endpoint will provide statistics from 12 months before the request date (UTC) till 2 days before the… the second quotation is from the follower-statistics page; the depth is exactly a year, on a rolling window source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Statistics of an organization's posts: clickCount, commentCount, engagement ("Number of organic clicks, likes, comments, and shares over impressions"), impressionCount, likeCount, shareCount, uniqueImpressionsCount this is the whole list; retention, video completions and the sources of impressions are not in it source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Follower statistics, seven professional breakdowns: followerCountsByAssociationType, followerCountsByGeoCountry, followerCountsByFunction, followerCountsByIndustry, followerCountsByGeo, followerCountsBySeniority, followerCountsByStaffCountRange LinkedIn is the only platform in this set where the breakdown goes by job level, industry and company size rather than by age and gender source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. Seven follower breakdowns: the type of association with the organization, country, function, industry, market, seniority level, and the size of the follower's company. Lifetime only, with no breakdown by period, and no more than 100 values in each breakdown age and gender are not among the breakdowns at all source, checked 2026-08-05
How delayed the update is. Follower statistics are available "till 2 days before the request date (UTC)" — that is, the last two days are not given the example in the documentation: a request on 31 December 2021 gives 29 December 2021 as the last data point source, checked 2026-08-05
Moya
What is known about the audience. the platform states that its demographic breakdown is statistically significant at a 99 % confidence interval The charts themselves (province, age, ethnic composition) did not render on the page — an error message was returned instead; the figures were not read source, checked 2026-07-28
Nextdoor
Who can access analytics at all. the platform lists who may enter as a business: «Local business owners, casual service providers, and home service providers can all participate on Nextdoor. To list your business, first create or claim your Business Page that displays basic information about… the «Frequently Asked Questions» section. The platform frames the account-type restriction not as a prohibition but as a procedure: you either create a business page or claim an existing one source, checked 2026-08-07
What it gives nobody. "If Pin was created before 2023-03-20 lifetime metrics will only be available for Video and Idea Pin formats" for ordinary Pins created before 20 March 2023 nobody has lifetime metrics source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "The reporting endpoints covered in this guide are only for organic Pins, any new performance a Pin receives once its been promoted will be reported on in our ad analytic endpoints" once promotion has been started, the organic reporting for a Pin stops being added to source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The rolled-up metrics for 1, 7 and 30 days are "unique to this method of fetching and not available in other analytics endpoints" the same figures are not served by every endpoint — hence part of the discrepancies between tools source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. "Some analytics are only available if the user has a business account" the wording is deliberately vague: the platform does not list which metrics exactly are closed to a personal account source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. "90 day look back on organic reporting for user accounts and Pins"; "Lifetime organic reporting for most Pins" day by day — 90 days back; the lifetime total exists, but with the stipulation about Pins older than 20 March 2023 source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. The platform's page about measurement names two dashboards — Pinterest Analytics and Ads Manager — and general words about "overall performance, in addition to more audience-specific insights and trends", but it gives no list of metrics robots.txt was checked separately. www.pinterest.com — "User-agent: * / Disallow: /", closed completely; help.pinterest.com — "User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /", closed to us. Open are… source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. The organic reporting metrics with the platform's own definitions: Impressions — "The number of times your Pins or ads were on screen"; Saves — "The number of times people saved your Pin to a board"; Pin clicks — "The total number of clicks on your Pin or ad… the platform states the definition of a video view directly: two seconds with half of the video on screen source, checked 2026-08-05
Can it be exported. Export of organic data as a file is not described in the documentation checked; a separate endpoint for a report exists only in the advertising part the v5 reference pages are served by a script and are empty in the HTML, so it was not possible to confirm the list of parameters source, checked 2026-08-05
RUTUBE
What it gives nobody. "How can I see the revenue for a specific video in the RUTUBE Studio app? At the moment there is no such option in the app, but you can view the analytics in the web version of Studio"; "Can the sections in the "Overview" tab of the RUTUBE Studio app be… the revenue for an individual video is not shown in the app — only in the web version Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. For a user with limited viewing rights "the "Monetization" section is not available for viewing" access to the money part of the statistics is cut off by the role in the studio Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. The analytics is tied to the channel and to the role in Studio: "There are five roles in all... Editor, Editor with limited rights, Comment moderator, User with viewing rights, User with limited viewing rights". A user with viewing rights can "View the… robots.txt was checked separately: rutube.ru does not serve a robots.txt file — a request from our agent gets back a page with code 404, and a request that does not identify itself gets 403.… source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. RUTUBE Studio provides "Channel analytics (statistics on videos, broadcasts, views, comments, audience)". The analytics for an individual video opens in the "Videos" tab. The analytics section is at https://studio.rutube.ru/analytics the platform names the list of metrics in general terms; they are not given by name in the open help centre Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. The "Audience" tab in Studio: "the number of unique viewers of the channel, of subscribers, the distribution by gender, countries and regions. In addition you can view information about the devices and operating systems used to watch your content" age is not among the breakdowns — unlike at Dzen Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Telegram
What it gives nobody. The threshold for access to statistics is not published: "Administrators of channels of a certain size (the exact limit is a server-side config, returned in the can_view_stats flag of channelFull) can invoke stats.getBroadcastStats to get detailed channel statistics" the threshold in force is set on the server side and is not named in the documentation; an application learns about it only from the can_view_stats flag source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The Bot API reference has not a single method for obtaining the statistics of a channel or a group: the word "statistics" occurs there only in the descriptions of administrator rights — "access supergroup statistics" and "access channel statistics; for channels only" the conclusion is drawn from the complete list of Bot API methods; Telegram publishes no separate stipulation that statistics are unavailable through the Bot API. A bot cannot obtain a channel's… source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. About the channel statistics method it is said directly, "Only users can use this method"; a call on a supergroup gives the error BROADCAST_REQUIRED — "This method can only be called on a channel", and without rights — CHAT_ADMIN_REQUIRED, "You must be an admin in this chat to do this" there is no access to someone else's statistics at all — neither for money nor through API access source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. Detailed statistics are only for channels and supergroups, only for administrators and only from a certain size. The announcement of the lowered threshold: «If you have a channel with more than ~~1000~~ 50 subscribers, you can now view detailed statistics… this is the only place where Telegram names the threshold as a figure; in the API documentation the threshold is called a «server-side config». The figure 50 and the threshold in force may not coincide — recorded as it stands source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. The sampling period is set by the platform, not by the user: "Period-related statistics: a pair of values, one at the beginning and one at the end of the period in consideration (period). The period typically depends on channel activity" an arbitrary period back in time cannot be requested; the maximum depth of the archive is not named in the documentation source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. Channel statistics: followers (the absolute number of subscribers), views_per_post ("total_viewcount/postcount, for posts posted during the period in consideration"), shares_per_post, reactions_per_post, enabled_notifications ("Percentage of subscribers with… robots.txt was checked separately: neither telegram.org nor core.telegram.org serves a robots.txt file (404), so there is no ban. The built-in statistics and the ones from the API are the same data… source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. Supergroup statistics: members, messages, viewers, posters; the graphs growth_graph, members_graph, new_members_by_source_graph, languages_graph, messages_graph, actions_graph, top_hours_graph, weekdays_graph; the lists top_posters (with the fields messages… for groups Telegram gives what almost nobody else gives: a breakdown by posters, moderators and inviters source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. The methods stats.getBroadcastStats (channel), stats.getMegagroupStats (supergroup), stats.getStoryStats (story), stats.loadAsyncGraph (loading graphs on demand). The set of metrics is the same as in the built-in statistics this is MTProto access, not the Bot API; see the separate row about the Bot API source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. Of the information about the audience there is only languages_graph (languages), views_by_source_graph and new_followers_by_source_graph (sources), top_hours_graph and weekdays_graph (hours and days). Age, gender and country are not in the list Telegram does not collect age and gender as a matter of principle, so neither the creator nor the tools have these breakdowns source, checked 2026-08-05
Threads
What it gives nobody. There is no data earlier than the spring of 2024: "The earliest Unix timestamp that can be used is 1712991600" (13 April 2024); "User insights are not guaranteed to work before June 1, 2024" the platform was launched in 2023, but the statistics for the first year are given to nobody source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "Returned metrics do not capture nested replies' metrics"; "An empty array will be returned for REPOST_FACADE posts"; for a post that is itself a reply, the replies metric "includes only direct replies" discussion threads are not rolled up into the statistics: in a long thread only the first level is visible source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The followers_count and follower_demographics metrics: "This metric does not support the since and until parameters" the dynamics of followers over an arbitrary period cannot be obtained — only the current value source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. About views and shares the documentation says that they are "in development" the wording is given from an excerpt of the page; its full surroundings could not be confirmed, hence not confirmed source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. The "threads_basic" and "threads_manage_insights" permissions are required; no separate requirement on the account type is stated on the page unlike Instagram, there is no requirement of "a professional account only" on this page; checked on 5 August 2026 source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. No earlier than 13 April 2024 (Unix timestamp 1712991600); for the account metrics, operation is not guaranteed before 1 June 2024 a rigidly set lower boundary of the archive source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Metrics for an individual post: views, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, shares the set is poorer than Instagram's: no reach, no saves and no link clicks at the level of an individual post source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Account metrics: views, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, clicks, followers_count, follower_demographics clicks and follower_demographics exist only at the account level; for an individual post they are not there source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. The only demographic metric is follower_demographics; obtaining it requires "at least 100 followers to fetch this metric" the same threshold of a hundred followers as at Instagram — both platforms belong to Meta source, checked 2026-08-05
TikTok
What it gives nobody. The list of Display API fields contains neither viewer demographics, nor retention, nor the sources of impressions, nor the number of unique viewers — only like_count, comment_count, share_count, view_count the conclusion is drawn from the complete documented list of fields; the platform publishes no separate stipulation that "these metrics are unavailable" source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "Videos returned are for the given user's public TikTok video posts"; "It is possible that the API returns less videos than the max count due to reasons such as videos deleted/marked as private by users etc." the second quotation is from the page https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/research-api-specs-query-videos/; private and deleted videos drop out silently, with no marker source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. Display API — the user's consent and the "video.list" and "user.info.basic" permissions. Research API — only "Academic institutions in the US, EEA, UK or Switzerland; or Not-for-profit and/or independent research institution, organization, association, or… the extended data is closed off not by the account type but by the type of organization: for a commercial user the Research API is out of reach in principle source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. Research API: "The end_date must be no more than 30 days after the start_date" the window of a single request is 30 days; the maximum depth of the archive is not named in the documentation source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Display API, the fields of the Video object: id, create_time, cover_image_url, share_url, video_description, duration, height, width, title, embed_html, embed_link, like_count ("Number of likes for the video"), comment_count ("Number of comments on the… this is the complete list of fields: four counters and metadata, and the platform gives an application nothing more source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. Research API, the fields returned: id, video_description, create_time, region_code, share_count, view_count, like_count, comment_count, music_id, hashtag_names, username, effect_ids, playlist_id, voice_to_text, is_stem_verified, favorites_count… this is access for researchers, not for a creator: on the restrictions on the applicant see the account_type_required row source, checked 2026-08-05
Twitch
What it gives nobody. There is no API access to the statistics of one's own channel — views, viewers, subscriptions, stream time — in the Twitch API reference: the Analytics section contains only reports on extensions and on games the conclusion is drawn from the complete list of methods in the reference; Twitch publishes no separate stipulation that channel statistics are unavailable through the API. This is exactly the case… source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The threshold for a game report is named as a number: "a report is available only if the game was broadcast for at least 300 minutes (5 hours) over the time period covered by the report" fewer than five hours of broadcast over the period and there is no report at all source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "Clips data is available via the Get Videos API endpoint" — the game reports contain no data about clips; "New data fields may be added in new versions of the report" the composition of the report is not fixed and may change from version to version source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. A game report requires the developer to "have registered an organization and claimed their game via the Twitch Developer Console"; reports on extensions require the access of the extension's developer. The analytics is tied not to the author of the broadcast… at Twitch the analytics available through the API is addressed to developers, not to streamers — this sets the platform apart from all the others in the set source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. Game reports cover "the past 365 days". Data on extensions is available "from January 31, 2018 onward" a year for games and a fixed start date for extensions source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. In the Twitch API reference the Analytics section consists of exactly two methods: "Get Extension Analytics — Gets an analytics report for one or more extensions" and "Get Game Analytics — Gets an analytics report for one or more games". Separately there is… the reports are given not as figures but as a link to a file: the method "returns a URL that you can use to download the CSV files" source, checked 2026-08-05
Can it be exported. The reports are given as CSV files: the method "returns a URL that you can use to download the CSV files"; for extensions there is a "Download CSV" button in the developer console. "Format: CSV files containing one row per day" there is an export, but only for extensions and games, not for a channel source, checked 2026-08-05
How delayed the update is. Data on both extensions and games is collected with a delay of a day: "a one-day delay" a report for yesterday appears no earlier than the following day source, checked 2026-08-05
Vimeo
Who can access analytics at all. A paid plan is required. The help centre: «This feature requires a Standard, Advanced, Pro, Business, Premium, or Enterprise plan.» Our translation: selling on Vimeo On Demand is available only on the Standard, Advanced, Pro, Business, Premium or Enterprise plans This is Vimeo's own statement in its help centre. Selling is not allowed on the free plan. source, checked 2026-08-07
X (Twitter)
What it gives nobody. "Non-public, organic, and promoted metrics are only available for posts created within the last 30 days." the harshest stipulation of those found: for a post older than 30 days nobody will get the impressions from the non-public set, nor the link clicks, nor the profile clicks source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The advertising API: "We do not support multi-segmentation" — a breakdown is possible only by one attribute at a time, and only from four of them: AGE, GENDER, METROS, PLATFORMS. Some of the ENGAGEMENT metrics "are not available at the account and funding… the last stipulation explains why the sum over the breakdowns does not agree with the overall total — the platform admits it itself source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. public_metrics — a Bearer Token is enough. non_public_metrics and organic_metrics — "User context (owned posts only)", that is, only one's own posts. promoted_metrics — "User context (promoted posts only)", only promoted posts there is no way at all to get someone else's statistics beyond the public counters source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. The main API access: non-public, organic and promoted metrics — only posts no older than 30 days. The advertising API: synchronous requests — 7 days, asynchronous ones — 90 days without a breakdown and 45 days with a breakdown the first part is from the page https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/metrics source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. public_metrics: "Public engagement metrics for the Tweet at the time of the request. Includes retweet_count, reply_count, like_count, quote_count, impression_count, and bookmark_count". non_public_metrics: impression_count, user_profile_clicks… four sets of metrics with different access conditions source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. The main API access has no demographic fields; a breakdown by age and gender exists only in the advertising API — the segments AGE, GENDER, METROS, PLATFORMS, one at a time a creator without an advertising dashboard is not given demographics by the platform source, checked 2026-08-05
Can it be exported. The advertising API: asynchronous requests make the metrics available "in a downloadable results file after the associated job has finished processing" this is an export of advertising data; an export of the creator's ordinary statistics is not described in the open documentation source, checked 2026-08-05
YouTube
What it gives nobody. The platform does not publish the thresholds at which it hides data: "The actual thresholds at which data is limited are not published and subject to change at YouTube's discretion". What gets limited: "Demographics data, such as age and gender", "Geographic… this is the most important admission: YouTube itself refuses to name the threshold below which it does not show a figure source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "You won't see demographics data for private or unlisted videos, regardless of the amount of traffic"; "You won't see any geography data for the following, regardless of the amount of traffic: Realtime reports" and for private videos and videos available by link the stipulation "regardless of the amount of traffic" — that is, traffic will not help, the metric is never there source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "one-off search terms and URLs that drive little traffic may not show"; when a filter or a dimension that falls short of the threshold is selected, "only the top results are available" that is, the long tail of queries and referring pages is not given to the creator source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. Through API access: "YouTube Analytics API responses do not contain metric breakdowns for deleted items" deleted videos drop out of the breakdowns but remain in the aggregate totals — hence the discrepancy between totals source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. Withdrawn annotation metrics: "YouTube Analytics API reports only return data for the annotationClickThroughRate and annotationCloseRate metrics as of June 10, 2012. In addition, YouTube Analytics API reports only return data for the remaining annotation… for earlier dates nobody has these figures source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The export limit in the dashboard: "Downloaded reports are limited to 500 rows. Use the YouTube Reporting API to download more than 500 rows of data." more than 500 rows cannot be exported from the interface — only through API access source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The stipulation about revenue: "Estimated revenue metrics are subject to month-end adjustment and don't include partner-sold and partner-served advertising"; "Estimated earnings data in YouTube Analytics doesn't reflect invalid activity adjustments in real… the second quotation is from the page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6085583; the revenue figure in analytics is knowingly not the final one source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. Analytics is open to any channel through YouTube Studio and the YouTube app; the Revenue tab shows estimated revenue "for those in the YouTube Partner Program" the split is confirmed by the overview page of the help centre; no separate page with an explicit list of "what is closed outside the partner program" was found source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. API access, the YouTube Reporting API: a new job "generates reports covering the 30-day period prior to the time that you created the job"; "API reports are available for 60 days from the time that they are generated"; "Reports containing historical data are… that is, the history before the job was created goes back 30 days only; deeper than that the platform gives nothing source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. YouTube Studio, the tabs and their metrics: Overview (Realtime and Typical performance), Content ("impressions and how they led to watch time"), Reach ("impressions, impressions click-through-rate, views, and unique viewers"), Engagement ("watch time and… the YouTube help centre is open to robots: support.google.com/robots.txt disallows only /*/search, /*/api, /*/forum-attachment source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. The revenue tab: RPM ("how much money you've earned per 1,000 video views"), CPM, Playback-based CPM, Views, Ad impressions, Estimated monetized playbacks, Estimated revenue, Estimated ad revenue the revenue metrics are set apart from the general ones because they are not available to every account source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. YouTube Analytics API: views, engagedViews, redViews, playlistViews, estimatedMinutesWatched, estimatedRedMinutesWatched, averageViewDuration, averageViewPercentage, comments, likes, dislikes, shares, subscribersGained, subscribersLost… developers.google.com/robots.txt closes only /youtube/partner/; the metrics page is open source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. YouTube Reporting API — bulk delivery of reports through reporting jobs, separately from the YouTube Analytics API a second form of API access, needed when the export from Studio runs into the row limit source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. "Age and gender" — "which age ranges are adding most to your watch time and the gender distribution of your audience"; "Top geographies"; "Watch time from subscribers"; "Channels that your audience watches"; "What your audience watches" the display threshold is not named, see the metrics_not_available row about the unpublished thresholds source, checked 2026-08-05
Can it be exported. From Studio: "At the top, select Export current view and choose your preferred file format" in Advanced mode; the limit is 500 rows. From Studio Content Manager — .CSV files with final data on revenue and performance the second route is for content managers only and is not available to an ordinary creator source, checked 2026-08-05
How delayed the update is. The realtime report: "This data is available within a few hours of publishing your content". The general delay: "Keep in mind there can be a delay of a few days before data is viewable in YouTube Analytics". For revenue: "YouTube Analytics has a data delay of… the first quotation is from the page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314486 source, checked 2026-08-05
Avito
Who can access analytics at all. Not everyone is admitted to the advertising console: «Зарегистрировать аккаунт в рекламном кабинете и размещать через него рекламу могут только российские юридические лица (ООО, АО, ПАО и т.п.) и индивидуальные предприниматели (ИП)» (our translation: only Russian legal entities and sole traders may register an account in the advertising console and place advertising through it) The quotation is verbatim from the help centre of Avito's advertising console; the source language is Russian. A private individual and a self-employed person are not on the list. This concerns the advertising console, not the placing of an ordinary listing. source, checked 2026-08-07
VKontakte
What it gives nobody. "The statistics of posts are at present available only for communities with 5,000 members or more." the threshold is stated as a number directly; for a community with fewer than five thousand members the reach of a post is given to nobody, neither to the creator nor to a tool Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. "The method returns data for the 300 most recent posts published no earlier than 9 December 2015." a double restriction: both by the number of posts and by date. For the 301st post from the end there are no statistics Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The composition of the stats.get response is not disclosed in the documentation: "After successful execution it returns an object with statistics data" — with no list of fields the platform does not publish which metrics exactly go into the visitors, reach and activity blocks Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The date_from and date_to parameters are "deprecated"; since version 5.86 timestamp_from and timestamp_to are used instead the old way of setting the period has been declared deprecated Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. "The user on whose behalf the method is called must be an editor or an administrator of the community"; the call requires "a user access key". The statistics are tied to the community, not to a personal page an application key will not do — it has to be a user key, from an editor or an administrator Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. For posts — "no earlier than 9 December 2015" and no deeper than the 300 most recent posts. For stats.get the maximum depth is not named the second part was checked against the page https://dev.vk.ru/ru/method/stats.get — there is no restriction on depth there Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. stats.get — "Returns the statistics of a community or an application"; the data is divided into three blocks set by the stats_groups parameter: visitors, reach, activity. The intervals are day, week, month, year, all the composition of each block is not spelled out on the method page — see the metrics_not_available row Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What the API returns. stats.getPostReach — "Returns the statistics for a post on the wall": reach_subscribers, reach_total, reach_ads, reach_viral, links, to_group, join_group, report, hide, unsubscribe VKontakte is one of the few platforms where "viral" reach and the number of people who hid the post are counted separately Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Dzen
What it gives nobody. "For videos published before 1 June 2019, the metric Subscriptions after viewing is unavailable." the word "unavailable" is said by the platform directly Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The display thresholds are named as numbers: "Read-through map... The value is shown if the publication has gathered more than 100 read-throughs"; "View depth... The value is shown if the publication has gathered more than 100 views" below a hundred read-throughs and below a hundred views these two metrics do not exist at all Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. Thresholds in geography: "if there is not enough data for some city or country, it will be shown in the field Other. This field takes in all cities with a value below 0.5% and all countries with a value below 0.1%" an extremely rare case: the platform has named the threshold for hiding geography in fractions of a per cent Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The dates before which there are no metrics: "You cannot view data earlier than 25 January 2022" (for subscribers); "You cannot view data on events earlier than 21 June 2021"; "Data on engaged viewing time has been counted since 1 August 2023. You cannot view… four different dates for four sets of metrics; the last quotation is from the page https://dzen.ru/help/ru/statistics/audience.html Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. The figures knowingly differ from what is visible under the publication: "All comments created during the selected period are counted, including deleted ones, so the number of real comments at the present moment may not match the number in the table"; the… Dzen warns directly that its own table will not agree with the counter under the post Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What it gives nobody. Real-time statistics "do not go through preliminary processing and may contain robot and SEO traffic"; the data of this section "does not affect monetization" that is, the fast figures and the money are counted from different data Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Who can access analytics at all. Ordinary statistics — in Studio, for any channel. Real-time statistics are available to partners "in the Media Studio" the help centre section about real time is titled as intended for Dzen's partners; there is no separate list of the partnership conditions on that page Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
How far back the history goes. Real time — "within the retention period of 30 calendar days". For subscribers — no earlier than 25 January 2022, for events — no earlier than 21 June 2021, for engaged viewing time — from 1 August 2023. The graph "When you are watched and read" — "only shown… the quotation about 30 days is from the page online.html, the one about 28 days from the page audience.html Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What is visible in the app itself. Statistics on publications in Studio: "Impressions — The number of times the publication was displayed in the Dzen feed", "Openings — Any openings of the publication from various sources", "Read-throughs and views — The number of users who viewed the… robots.txt was checked separately: dzen.ru allows "Allow: /", with only /away, /search, /news/*, /user/, /games, /money and the like disallowed; the /help section is not closed. There are no separate groups for ClaudeBot Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
What is known about the audience. The "Audience" tab: "How viewers find you" (Recommendations, the "Subscriptions" tab, Search in Dzen, the Mail.ru feed, the Dzen feed, Search engines, Social networks, Other sources), "When you are watched and read", "Gender and age" (female and male; under… the most detailed set of information about the audience among the twelve platforms checked Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
Can it be exported. "Export statistics in XLS format" the export is available straight from the dashboard, without API access Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
How delayed the update is. The real-time section: "The permissible time for updating the data is up to 5 minutes", there is no auto-refresh and the page has to be refreshed by hand. On viewing time: "the information on this metric is processed with a delay of 2 days". The statistics on… the second and third quotations are from the pages extended.html and audience.html; Dzen has three different update speeds for three sets of metrics Quoted text is our translation from Russian. source, checked 2026-08-05
新浪微博 (Sina Weibo)
Who can access analytics at all. The only condition of admission collected is verification: the page «Follower service platform» in Weibo's open documentation says «粉服平台是为微博认证用户提供服务的平台» (our translation: the follower service platform provides services to users who have passed Weibo… The category of verification (blue, yellow, corporate) and the subscriber count are not named on that page. Recorded as partial: the condition exists, its magnitude is unknown. The host… source, checked 2026-08-07
知乎 (Zhihu)
What is known about the audience. «over 73.2% of our active users were under 30, and female users accounted for 59.6% of our total number of active users in December 2025» Issuer data as of December 2025 source, checked 2026-07-28
What follows from this
- Check the threshold, not the feature. «Analytics exist» and «you have analytics» are different statements. On some platforms the metrics are closed to communities and accounts below a certain size, and the threshold is given as a number.
- Year-on-year comparison is possible almost nowhere. The commonest window is thirty to ninety days. If you need history, export it yourself and in advance: nobody can reconstruct it later.
- An empty answer and a zero are different things. Some platforms return emptiness when there is no data, and tools draw a zero in its place. A dip in the chart may mean «no data», not «there were no views».
- If the platform does not have a metric, no tool has it either. A tool promising to show what the platform does not give out is a reason to ask where the figure comes from.
On method. Only the platforms' own documentation: help for creators, API documentation, dashboard pages. Analytics tools' claims about their own capabilities are not included here.
See also: why the numbers do not match · how far back you will be able to compare · frequency and limits