Video Stats Viewer
See views, likes, and engagement on any video.
Video stats
The Video Stats Viewer pulls publicly visible engagement metrics from any YouTube video: view count, like count, comment count, publish date, and video duration. The data comes directly from the public page source, so there is no API quota and no signup. Use it to benchmark your videos against competitors, calculate engagement rates manually, and spot which video formats win in your niche.
What is the Video Stats Viewer?
A YouTube video stats viewer reads the publicly displayed engagement counters from a video page. View count and like count are visible on every video page; comment count is visible if comments are enabled; publish date is in the standard ISO format in the page metadata; duration is in the video player metadata block. The tool collects all of these and presents them in a clean dashboard view.
Why this tool matters in 2026
Public stats are the raw input for engagement-rate analysis, niche benchmarking, and competitor monitoring. Manually noting these numbers across 10 competitor videos is tedious; extracting them programmatically lets you study patterns at scale.
How to use the Video Stats Viewer
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Paste a YouTube URL
Any public video URL.
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Click Extract
The tool fetches the public page and parses the visible counters.
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Review the dashboard
Views, likes, comments, publish date, duration, and computed engagement rate.
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Compare against benchmarks
Use the niche benchmark table on this page to gauge whether the video over- or under-performs.
Best practices that actually move the needle
- Always note the publish date. A video with 1M views in 30 days is very different from 1M views in 3 years.
- Calculate engagement rate. (Likes + Comments) / Views × 100. Above 4% is strong, below 1% is weak.
- Compare like-to-view ratio. A high like ratio with low views often signals an under-promoted gem.
- Watch for hidden likes. Some channels hide likes. The tool returns "hidden" for those videos.
Quick comparison
| Engagement Rate | Verdict |
|---|---|
| > 6% | Exceptional |
| 3–6% | Strong |
| 1–3% | Average |
| < 1% | Weak |
Common mistakes to avoid
- Comparing absolute numbers. A 100K-view channel and a 10M-view channel cannot be compared on raw views. Always normalize.
- Ignoring video age. A 2-week-old video and a 5-year-old video have wildly different cumulative metric pressures.
Frequently asked questions
Why is dislike count not shown?
YouTube removed public dislike counts in 2021. The data is no longer in the public page source.
Are the numbers exact?
YouTube rounds public counts (1.2M instead of 1,234,567). The extractor returns the rounded display value.
Why are comments missing for some videos?
Comments are disabled on some videos (especially kids content). The tool returns "comments disabled" in that case.
Can I track stats over time?
This tool gives you a snapshot. For tracking, run the extractor weekly and log the numbers in a spreadsheet.