Reading the growth charts

Each tracked post's detail view carries a growth chart: the post's numbers over time, one point per check-in.

It starts the moment Huntit first saw the post and adds a point at every later checkpoint, so you can read how the post built its reach and engagement across its 30-day life.

The chart starts at "found"

The first point is labelled found, not "posted" — that's the honest baseline, the first reading Huntit actually took.

Hover it and the tooltip leads with how long after publishing Huntit caught the post: "18m after posting".

Facebook sometimes gives only the posting date and not the time. There's no gap to measure then, so the tooltip leaves that line out rather than print a zero that isn't true.

The two curves, and the speed view

Switch the chart between Views and Interactions — the running count of likes, comments, and any shares or saves the platform reports.

A second switch turns those totals into a speed view: how fast the post was climbing between checks, rather than where it stood.

Instagram Carousels have no public view count, so their chart locks to Interactions. See supported platforms and metrics.

Honest gaps

If a scheduled check-in couldn't be taken, the chart doesn't paper over it. The missed point is drawn as a data gap — a dashed amber bridge with an axis label like 6h·gap — instead of a smooth line pretending the reading happened.

The next successful check-in bridges across it, and the growth rate for that stretch is worked out against the time that actually passed. The math stays honest even with a checkpoint missing.

If a post is too new to have enough readings yet, the chart says so: "Not enough tracked checkpoints yet."

The tracking log

Below the chart, a collapsed Snapshots & tracking log lists every reading as a table: Stage, Time, and the five metrics for each check-in.

A missed check-in keeps its place in the sequence as its own row, with no figures beside it — the reading was never taken.

It's the audit trail behind the curve. Any metric a platform doesn't expose shows as an em-dash — see why do I see "—" instead of a number.

Why your numbers may differ from the platform's own analytics

Huntit reads public metrics at each check-in moment. A creator's own dashboard shows authenticated analytics that only the account holder sees, so the two legitimately differ — see how Huntit tells you the truth.