@swissspidy Thank you.
Two Requests:
1.) Ability to take a snapshot of the first page, any page, or all pages and save as a .jpg. Here are three examples of our covers: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWUVy1Q
Currently, we just do a screen grab and crop the image, but thought it sure would be awesome to capture the page with a click of a button. Maybe put the option under the menu on the 3 Dot displayed on the Dashboard for each story, or maybe put it on the Preview page and someone could select the snapshot based on the device.
2.) It sure would be great to know when looking at the WS Dashboard how stories are doing, have done, or to sort stories based on how much traffic or their CTR. I realize this is all available in Analytics which we use, but to get it takes serious mining.
We are always in a guessing game as to what resonates with our audience. To have ‘something’ that tells us, yes this page or story did better or had these results would be awesome.
This may be out of the scope of the tool since there are two separate systems (WS and Analytics) but thought I would ask.
Pascal, thank you and your team for all the hard work you put in for this plugin. It really is an excellent tool that has created a massive positive impact for us.
Terry
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and also for the kind feedback!
Improved analytics insights is high up on our list of ideas and is definitely something we’re exploring. Short term we are working on some solution using Google Data Studio, long term we’re looking into a closer integration with Site Kit by Google to have those insights right within the WordPress dashboard.
As for the snapshot idea, could you perhaps tell us a little bit more about the use case there?
For listing stories somewhere we’d recommend using the poster image instead of a screenshot of the first page.
@swissspidy absolutely…and thank you for asking.
We use the 1st page as our cover and will share page(s) in our emails, website, and socials. The cover that is used for the OG Social media is great, but it’s not as visually arresting (words taken from Alicia Hallett-Chan of Forbes)…in my opinion.
We also will take a page from the WS and simply post that image on socials to provide a visual update of a game.
For example, see pages 11, 13 from this story: https://hornsillustrated.com/web-stories/texas-vs-oklahoma-updates-during-game/
Page 19 from this story: https://hornsillustrated.com/web-stories/updates-during-texas-vs-tcu/
For our fans on social media and our email broadcasts. Another example is FB. See how we use it here: https://www.facebook.com/hornsillustrated/posts/10160184869551388
…and here https://www.facebook.com/hornsillustrated/posts/10160171668261388
Our reach and engagement are productive.
We also would like to repurpose the covers (aka 1st pages or any page) to create a collage stories. I thing of each page as a new canvas to paint.
I hope this helps. If you would like me to put together something more concrete let me and I can create a Google Slide that I can share with you.
Terry Middleton
Hi Terry!
Apologies for the delay; was doing some review of older topics and realized that we never got back to you.
We have an open GitHub issue for video export here. You can follow that issue for continued updates.
For your requests regarding enhancements to Web Stories stats, I can tell you that in 2022 we’re planning for an integration between Web Stories and the Google Site Kit plugin to provide the more detailed stats about Web Stories in the Site Kit dashboard. Stay tuned!
I’ll mark this topic as resolved, but as always, please do feel free to create a new one if you have any other questions or suggestions.
