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Outlier Lens: see how every post did against that account’s own typical post

Free Chrome extension. Badges each video or reel on the profile you are viewing with how it did versus that same account’s own typical post. No account, no network requests.

Outlier Lens is a free Chrome extension from Grow Creator. It shows how each video or reel on the profile you are viewing performed compared with that same account’s own typical post.

Open a YouTube channel’s Videos tab and every tile gets a small badge: 3.4×, 0.6×, 1.1×. That number is the video’s views divided by the median of that same channel’s own recent uploads. Nothing is compared against "the average YouTuber", against a niche benchmark, or against anything you did not open — one account, judged against itself.

It is free, there is no paid tier inside it, and there is nothing to sign up for or unlock. It is not yet published on the Chrome Web Store; this page will carry the install link the day the listing goes live.

Where it works

• YouTube — a channel’s Videos tab: every tile is badged against that channel’s own median recent upload.
• YouTube — a channel’s Shorts tab: Shorts are a separate cohort, so a Short is only ever compared with other Shorts on that account, never with long videos.
• YouTube — a video page: one extra line under the metadata, and only from what is already on your computer. If you opened that channel’s Videos tab yourself earlier, the typical figure worked out then is still stored locally. If you never did, the line does not appear — nothing is fetched to fill the gap.
• Instagram — a profile’s Reels tab and the main grid. On the main grid only reels and video posts get a multiple, because they are the only tiles Instagram prints a view count on. Instagram itself only renders a profile’s posts to signed-in users, so you need to be signed in to your own Instagram account for anything to appear.

How the number is worked out

The baseline is the median of the eligible posts the page has currently loaded — the 50 most recent of them where the page shows dates. A post’s multiple is its own view count divided by that median. Every count and every date is read from the page you are looking at, exactly as the platform printed it.

Click any badge and a card opens that shows the whole sample: the median, how many posts it is a median of, the date range those posts run across, every post that was left out and why, a note that the platform’s counts are rounded, and the line "Nothing was fetched. All numbers come from this page." The sample is the product. If you cannot check the number, it is not worth anything.

When it refuses to give you a number

This is the part most tools skip, so it is written down. The rule the whole thing is built on: never show a wrong number, even when that means showing no number. Each of these states is a sentence on the page, not a blank space.

• Fewer than 8 usable posts have loaded — no multiples. It tells you to scroll for more, or, if the grid has already reached the end, that the account does not have enough posts to compare against.
• A post newer than 7 days is greyed out and marked "still counting", and left out of the typical figure — a two-day-old post has not finished collecting its views, and including it drags the median down. The window is yours to change in the popup.
• A post under 1,000 views gets no multiple, because multiples of very small numbers are noise. It still counts towards the typical figure, and the floor is yours to change.
• The whole account under 1,000 views — no multiples at all. It shows raw views and views per day instead, and says why.
• The grid is not in its default order (you switched it to Popular) and has not been scrolled to the end — then the posts on screen are what that sort put first, not a sample, so no multiple would be honest.
• Under half the numbers on the page could be read — it stops rather than guess.
• The sample spans more than 18 months — the multiples still show, with a line saying this account’s typical has shifted over that period and the numbers should be treated as rough.
• Pinned, live, upcoming, members-only, and your own private, unlisted, draft or scheduled posts are left out of the typical figure, and each one is counted by name on the method card.

Rank the posts on the page

A "Rank posts" button above the grid opens a plain list of everything the page has loaded, sorted by multiple, by views, by views per day, or by date — on Shorts, where no dates exist, by the order the page lists them. Posts that were left out of the typical figure are still listed, and still labelled. The list never reorders the platform’s own grid; it is a separate panel that closes when you close it.

The popup carries the settings: the view floor, the recency window, an on/off switch per site, a "Remember baselines" switch (off means nothing is written to storage at all), a "Read YouTube’s page data" switch, and a button that deletes every stored number in one click with a live count of what it is about to delete.

What it does not do

• No network requests of any kind — nothing it reads leaves your browser.
• No account, no sign-up, no API key, no login to anything of ours.
• No analytics, no identifiers, no telemetry.
• No remote code and no background service worker.
• It does not download videos, export data, or scan accounts you did not open, and it does not read any page you did not navigate to yourself.
• It asks Chrome for one permission — storage — and nothing else: no tabs, no activeTab, no cookies, no history. You can confirm that in chrome://extensions with Developer mode on.

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