Detailed statistics for your petition
You can see how many people reach your petition, how many of them sign, and which channel brought them. That turns promotion from guesswork into a decision: do more of what works, stop what does not.
Where to find them
Open your petition and choose Visitor statistics in the petition menu. The page opens on four numbers: page views, unique visitors, signatures, and the share of visitors who signed.
What the page shows
| Section | What you learn |
|---|---|
| Views per day | Page views, unique visitors, signatures and the signing share, day by day for the most recent 60 days. |
| Devices | How the visits split between computer, phone and tablet over the last 30 days. |
| Top countries | The countries your visitors come from over the last 30 days. |
| Where visitors come from | The website or app that sent them: a search engine, a social network, a messaging app, a copied link or another website. |
| Where signatures come from | The same breakdown for the people who actually signed, not just visited. |
The visitor source list names the common channels, among them Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, email and a plain copied link. The four headline numbers at the top of the page cover the whole life of the petition.
Statistics for each update
Every update you publish has its own Statistics link. It shows how many notification messages were sent, how many were delivered, and how many signatories opened the update from the link in the email. For recent updates you also see where the readers came from, and which signatories we did not email and why.
A concrete example
A petition gets 4,000 page views in a week but only 160 signatures. The source table shows that most of the traffic came from one social media post, and that the visitors who arrived from a copied link signed at four times that rate. The author stops boosting the post, writes a short message that supporters can forward themselves, and the signing share recovers within days.
Privacy comes first
The statistics are deliberately aggregate. They tell you how many and from where, never who. A traffic source appears only once it has brought at least five separate visitors, so no single visitor can be identified from a rare source, and the right to view statistics is separate from any right to see the signatures.
Limits worth knowing
- The breakdowns by device, country and source cover the last 30 days, not the whole life of the petition.
- Visits where no referring site or share channel could be detected are counted as direct, which is normal for links opened from an app or typed by hand.
- The counts in "Where readers came from" for updates need the reader's browser to run JavaScript, so treat them as a comparison between sources rather than an exact total.
Questions and answers
Do the statistics show who visited my petition?
No. The statistics are totals only. You never see which person made a visit, and a traffic source is listed only once it has brought at least five visitors.
How far back do the statistics go?
Page views, unique visitors and signatures are kept per day for the whole life of the petition. The breakdowns by device, country and source cover the last 30 days.
What does "Visitors who signed" mean?
The share of unique visitors who went on to sign. It is the single most useful number on the page: if it is low, the petition text or the signature form is losing people, not your promotion.
Can a co-manager see the statistics?
Yes, if you grant the right "View visitor statistics (totals only, no individual signatories)". It gives access to the totals without access to the signature list.
Can anyone see how my petition is doing?
Every petition has a public statistics page with a chart of signatures per day. The visitor statistics, the sources and the update statistics are for you and your co-managers only.