Sharing: channels used¶
This page answers a single question: which route do organisations take when they share an entry — and do they do it at all?
You will find it in the governance hub under Sharing: channels used
(/governance/share-usage).
What you see¶
By month, for the whole hub:
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| Headline total | How often something was shared in that month |
| By destination | System dialog, WhatsApp, Facebook, link copied, Instagram kit — with bars relative to the strongest channel |
| By organisation | Who shared, with their own breakdown and when they last did |
If there are numbers from several months, you can switch between them at the top.
What is counted — and what is not¶
Two numbers, two directions
This page counts outgoing: somebody pressed "WhatsApp". It does not count how many people arrived as a result.
Arrivals live elsewhere — with the organisation itself, in its entry list, as views through a shared link. That is the opposite direction.
Do not offset one against the other. A share can lead to zero arrivals (nobody clicks), and an arrival can come from a link that never passed through the share surface (somebody copied it out of the address bar). Neither number is an upper or lower bound for the other.
Two more honest limits, before you quote a figure:
- The choice is counted, not the delivery. Someone who opens the device's share dialog and then cancels is included.
- Only an organisation's maintainers can produce a count. The share surface sits inside their management area, and reports are accepted from there only. That is deliberate: otherwise anyone could inflate the very numbers you are relying on here.
Privacy¶
Only this is stored: organisation, destination, month, count — plus when the last share happened.
No user id. No IP address. No row per click from which a history could be reconstructed. There is nothing that could be traced back to an individual, not even after the fact.
The numbers are display only: they influence no ordering, no recommendation and no content visibility.
There is no switch¶
Counting is always on. It cannot be turned off, because there is nothing stored that would need turning off.
"There is nothing here"¶
If the page says nobody has shared an entry yet, that is the answer — not a fault to chase. That is exactly what the page is for: to show whether the route is used before anybody builds on it.