Analytics and Statistics

Use Statistics in EnaCast Studio to see how your station’s news and podcasts perform. You can also check an individual article, episode or podcast, and compare popular content on the dashboard. A podcast, also called a program, groups its episodes.

News history and data quality

Click the ⓘ information button beside a news chart, total or ranking to see the available coverage. Current station and article views include the partial launch day on September 14.

The withdrawn archive contains two types of source:

Older article records (2009–2019): the earliest imported records lack reliable IP and browser information. Later native records retain metadata and old filtering decisions, but have not been separately approved for republication.
Influx station totals (2019–September 2026): no article IDs, IPs or user agents survive. A large daily count alone does not establish that it is bots, and we cannot reliably separate automated from human traffic retrospectively. A known proxy issue can also have suppressed valid reads.

The whole historical batch is excluded rather than applying arbitrary caps to peaks. The existing news and podcast charts remain available in the separate Legacy statistics section, collapsed by default. Current source, country and exclusion breakdowns remain available. Original lifetime counters are separate from tracked activity and have not been rewritten.

Where to Find Each View

View	What you can see
News → open an article	Reads graph, counts for the last 7 and 30 days, total tracked reads, sources and countries.
Episodes → open an episode	Plays graph, counts for the last 7 and 30 days, total tracked plays, engagement, completions, sources and countries.
Podcasts → open a podcast/program	Activity across its episodes, period and tracked totals, a graph and top episodes. Country breakdowns are not available at program level.
Dashboard	The five most-read articles, most-played episodes and most-played podcasts/programs. Choose 7 or 30 days with the shared selector; open an item to inspect it.
Statistics → Content performance	Station-wide news reads and podcast plays, engagement and completions, graphs, rankings, sources, countries and excluded activity.
Settings	A read-only explanation of the active counting rules.

Available sections depend on your station’s news and podcast services and your account’s access. You do not need a Google Analytics tracking ID for these content statistics. They are separate from general website visitor analytics.

Dates and Filters

The Content performance section shares one period across its totals, graphs and rankings: last 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, 12 months, a calendar month/year, or a custom range. Graphs also offer their available time-grouping controls and a raw-activity overlay.

The 7-day and 30-day periods include today. Content reporting uses Europe/Madrid calendar days; a custom range includes both selected dates. Today’s figures are still provisional. Use the detail page’s 7-day/30-day control to compare recent activity for one item.

Choose Calendar month or Calendar year to browse history. Use the arrows for the previous or next period, or select a month and year directly. The current month/year ends today. These controls update every chart, total and ranking in Content performance together; older audience widgets below have their own date controls.

Explore a day’s news

Click a month in the news graph to see its days, then click a daily bar to open Most-read news that day. The dialog shows the station’s read total and up to 10 ranked news items with links to their detail pages. If the chart is grouped by hour, a click opens the whole day. You can also expand Browse dates and read counts and use its date buttons with the keyboard. Close the dialog with Escape or the close button.

The dialog uses current tracking only. Dates before tracking began are unavailable, not measured zero readership. The top 10 news items need not add up to the station total.

Understanding the Counts

Metric	Meaning
Counted	For current data, reads or play requests accepted after filtering and deduplication. Imported history is excluded. These are not unique people; an audio request does not prove listening.
Raw (before rules)	For current data, recorded read/play/start observations before counting exclusions. Imported historical sources are excluded. Progress reports are not extra plays; raw counts are not unique people.
Engaged	Player sessions with enough measured listening time. With the current defaults, the threshold is 10% of the episode’s duration, with a 3-second minimum and a 30-second maximum. If duration is unknown, it is 30 seconds.
Completed	An engaged session with a valid completion report after playback started, normally at least 90% through the episode.
Total tracked	Counted activity across available dated records, excluding imported article history. It is not the original lifetime counter.

For example, the engagement threshold is 6 seconds for a one-minute clip and 30 seconds for a ten-minute episode. A completion also qualifies as engaged; do not add those two figures together. They measure sessions, while counted plays measure accepted requests, so the figures need not match one for one.

EnaCast’s web and embedded players provide listening evidence. RSS readers, podcast apps or other players can produce counted play/download requests through EnaCast, but may not send engagement or completion reports. Missing engagement therefore does not establish that nobody listened.

Counting rules can exclude bots, repeated activity and other categories. Check Settings for the active rules and the excluded activity section for the selected period. Source labels indicate how activity reached EnaCast; a country is an estimate from the connection, not a listener’s verified location.

Downloads are requests for the audio file. They can include requests from Spotify, Apple Podcasts or similar apps when the app is not identified. Traffic identified as coming from podcast apps appears under Podcast apps (RSS). These categories describe how the request was classified; they do not provide a verified per-app audience or confirm listening.

Historical Totals and Live Audience

Existing lifetime counters and some older dashboard indicators still use the previous counting system. They can differ from Total tracked because they cover different dates and use different counting rules.

Expand Legacy statistics on Statistics to access the existing historical news and podcast charts. They use the previous counting system and remain available for reference, with a warning about unreliable historical news bot filtering. Their figures are excluded from current Content performance totals. Live-audience views remain separate.

Live streaming has its own listener, country and audience-duration views. Those describe listening to the live broadcast and should not be added to on-demand episode play counts.

Updates, Export and Troubleshooting

Updates: recent content is aggregated hourly. A nightly correction at 03:30 Madrid time revisits the previous two days, so recent figures can change. A refreshed page may reuse results for up to five minutes.
CSV: where a graph offers Export CSV, choose the period and grouping first. Its export contains time buckets and counted, raw and engaged values; it is not a row-by-row audience or visitor list.
No new cards: check that you selected the correct station and have access to its statistics. The cards also require content tracking to be available; no tracking ID needs to be entered by the station.
Empty data: choose dates after tracking began and allow time for aggregation. An old episode can still gain new tracked plays today.
Loading error: use the retry control. A failed request should not be interpreted as zero activity.

For help, contact support@enacast.com.