YouTube Video Stats Checker Online: Check Any Video by URL

Paste any YouTube video URL into the YouTube Data Viewer above to check its stats — view count, like count, comment count, video duration, and publish date — in under two seconds. No account, no login, no extension. Works for any publicly accessible video on any channel.

Here is what the stats checker shows, how accurate the numbers are, and what to do with the data once you have it.

What YouTube Video Stats the Checker Returns

The YouTube Data Viewer returns the following statistics for any public video URL:

View count: The total number of views recorded by YouTube as of the moment you check. YouTube updates view counts continuously but batches them in intervals — the number you see is accurate to within the last few hours for fast-moving videos.

Like count: The total number of likes. Note that YouTube hid the dislike count from the public interface in November 2021. The Data Viewer returns the like count from the YouTube data source, which YouTube still provides publicly.

Comment count: Total comments on the video. Videos with comments disabled show zero for this field.

Duration: Total video length in hours, minutes, and seconds.

Publish date: The date and time the video was made public, in UTC.

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How to Check Stats on Videos You Did Not Upload

The YouTube Data Viewer works for any publicly accessible video — not just videos you own. Paste the URL of any video from any channel to see its current stats. This is useful for:

Benchmarking: Before publishing a video on a topic, check the view counts of the top 5 existing videos on that topic. High view counts signal an engaged audience; very low counts may suggest weak search demand or a saturated niche.

Competitor monitoring: Check how many views a competitor's recent upload has accumulated in its first 48 hours. This gives you a performance baseline for content in your niche.

Engagement rate analysis: Divide the like count by the view count to calculate engagement rate. A video with 100,000 views and 5,000 likes has a 5% engagement rate — compare that to your own content to assess relative audience quality.

YouTube Data Viewer Stats vs YouTube Studio Analytics

The YouTube Data Viewer returns the public-facing stats for any video — the same numbers visible to anyone who watches the video. YouTube Studio Analytics provides much deeper data for your own videos: watch time, audience retention curves, traffic source breakdown, impressions, click-through rate, and revenue.

The Data Viewer is not a replacement for YouTube Studio Analytics for your own content. It is a complement to it — and the only way to check the public stats of videos on other channels without manually visiting each video and reading the numbers from the watch page.

For quick lookups across multiple competitor videos, the Data Viewer is significantly faster than opening each video individually and reading the stats from the watch page interface.

Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate are the YouTube video stats returned by the checker?

The stats come directly from YouTube's public API and are the same numbers YouTube displays on the watch page. View counts are updated continuously but may lag by a few hours for very high-traffic videos. Like and comment counts are similarly real-time within API refresh intervals.

Can I check stats for YouTube Shorts?

Yes. Paste the Shorts URL the same way as a regular video URL. View count, like count, and comment count are returned for Shorts as they are for standard videos.

Can I see the dislike count on YouTube videos?

No. YouTube removed the public dislike count from its API in December 2021. The Data Viewer returns only the like count, which YouTube still exposes publicly. Third-party dislike count estimators (like Return YouTube Dislike) use their own data collection methods to estimate dislike counts, but these are estimates rather than official figures.