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# Chapter 15: Metrics and measurement

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Measuring API documentation quality and tracking its improvement is a frequent management request that’s challenging to fulfill. User surveys and satisfaction scores offer some insight, but they shouldn’t be the only evaluation tools. This chapter provides a comprehensive quality checklist for API documentation and developer portals, spanning more than 70 different aspects that involve accuracy, clarity, completeness, and relevance across your API documentation. This checklist can help highlight areas to focus on and be a springboard for discussion about ways to improve your developer portal. Although scoring methods are possible, your primary focus should be to agree on clear, actionable standards for documentation quality.

- [Measuring documentation quality through user feedback](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_measuring_impact.html)
- [Different approaches for assessing information quality](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_metrics_assessing_information_quality.html)
- [Quality checklist for API documentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_quality_checklist.html)
- [Quantifying your progress](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_metrics_quantifying_progress.html)