Read your Channel page calmly

Three tabs, five minutes

Open Channel from the sidebar, or from the bottom tabs on a phone. Under your channel name it says how fresh the numbers are, such as "Numbers updated 6 hours ago. Videxa saves them every night." There are three tabs: Overview, Videos and Health.

Everything here comes from your channel's public data. Private numbers, such as CTR (click-through rate: how often viewers watched a video after seeing its thumbnail on YouTube), watch time and revenue, stay in YouTube Studio.

Read the page once, pick one small fix, and close it. Checking it ten times a day will not change your numbers, but it can change your mood.

Overview: your numbers at a glance

The Overview tab shows, from the top:

Compare with yourself

Compare each number only with your own earlier weeks, never with a big channel. A few flat days are normal on a small channel.

The buttons under your latest upload change with how it is doing. Above your usual, you see "Make one like this", "Ask what worked" and "Plan one on the calendar". Otherwise, you see "Improve title and description" and "Ask why" (or "Ask about it" when it is close to your usual). "Edit in Studio" opens the video in YouTube Studio. If you have not posted for a while, a calm line says for how many days, with "Plan the next one".

The Goal card is an estimate

If you have set a goal, the "Goal" card shows how close you are and a pace line, such as "About 40 days to go at your recent pace of +25 a week." Until Videxa has tracked 7 nights, it says "Pace shows after 7 nights of tracking" instead. If you chose an upload rhythm, it also counts your "uploads in the last 30 days". Setting a goal is covered in the lesson "Plan with a goal and the Calendar", and the card's "Plan a season" button opens the 2-week planner on Today.

That line is an estimate, not a promise. It assumes your recent pace stays the same, but festivals, exams and work change pace. No person, tool or course can promise you subscribers, and that includes this one.

Refresh, never remove

Videxa saves your numbers every night. For newer numbers, tap "Refresh" at the top of the page. It works once every 30 minutes for each channel, and if you tap it too soon, it tells you how many minutes to wait. "YouTube" next to it opens your channel on YouTube.

"Remove channel" is a quiet button at the end of Overview, and it is not a refresh button. It asks you first. If you confirm, Videxa stops tracking the channel, and it leaves Today, your calendar and your plan. Nothing changes on YouTube itself, and you can add the channel again later from the channel menu.

Videxa's numbers are never live. For the very latest numbers, open YouTube Studio.

Videos: your recent uploads, scored

The Videos tab lists your recent uploads with their age, views, "Vs usual", engagement % (likes plus comments, as a share of views) and a packaging score out of 100. At the top, "Your usual", "Best" and "Well below usual" (under half your usual views) sum up the list. You can sort by "Newest", "Most views", "Vs usual" or "Packaging". On the Free plan, it shows public numbers for your 10 newest uploads and scores the packaging of the 3 newest. Pro scores every upload and keeps your last 50.

Tap a video to open it. Depending on how it did, you see:

What is in the packaging score

The packaging score is Videxa's own checklist, out of 100, built only from the words around a video. Open a video to see each part with its points and one fix. It has four parts:

What the packaging score is not

Packaging leaves out views and engagement, and YouTube does not use this score. In the app's own words: "Packaging reads the title, description, tags and extras only. Views depend on much more, such as the topic and the thumbnail." It cannot judge your thumbnail, and it cannot see how long people watch.

YouTube says your title, thumbnail and description are more important for discovery than tags. Tags can help if your topic is often misspelled. Otherwise, they play a minimal role ^[1].

So tags get only 10 points on purpose. If a score is low, fix the title or the first lines of the description before you add tags. The Getting good on YouTube lesson "Your upload checklist" covers tags fully.

Health: a score and one thing to work on

The Health tab has these parts:

Test the one item before you act

The item under "What to work on" is a starting point, not an order. Test it against the "Getting good on YouTube" track first.

YouTube says growth in views across uploads is not correlated with the time between uploads, so you do not need to upload daily or weekly ^[2].

So if the item tells you to post more often, or any Health text says the algorithm favours regular uploads, treat it as a note about your viewers, not a YouTube rule. There is no algorithm penalty for a slower pace, but viewers build habits, so choose a pace you can keep. The Getting good on YouTube lesson "A pace you can keep" covers this.

YouTube says there is no universal good benchmark for CTR, because it varies a lot across topics and formats. It says to improve against your own past numbers instead ^[3].

So if the item compares your engagement with a typical range from other channels, compare each video only with your own earlier videos. The Getting good on YouTube lesson "Reading YouTube Studio without panic" covers this.

More detail: how Videxa builds its two scores

These are Videxa's own rules of thumb, not YouTube's. They can help you see why a score is low, but they are not targets to chase.