Hey Dan, the order on the personal progress chart is based on how much time you’ve spent doing each sport type over the last 12 weeks -- your overall number of activities for each of them and default sport type don't factor into that. So the sports you spend the most time doing will be shown first. Hope this clarifies that for you.

Thanks Soren. In that case, perhaps there's something wrong or buggy? I just added up the time spent on my activities in the past 12weeks... and I've spent ~29hrs walking, and ~48 hours running, ~46 hrs biking. So there's no reason Walk should be first on my list.

Hey Dan, that's interesting, thanks for corroborating that. Let me look into this a bit further, I'll get back to you next week!

Dan, my bad. Apparently, there were some changes made to the ordering of the chart when Trail Sports were rolled out on 6/15 and it depends on the number of activities carried out. However, Grouped sports (All Ride, All Run, All E-Ride) will always show up first. Can you let me know if "All Run" appears before "Walk" on your chart now?

The order on my Profile tab is "Walk", "All Run", "Run", "All Ride", "Ride", "Trail Run", "Swim", "Virtual Ride"

Note I am using a beta version of the app, if this is relevant: 271.0.0 (r34012)

Thanks for the info, Dan. I cross-referenced this with our engineers and the ordering appears to be working as intended. The changes that were rolled out made it so that the order is determined by the number of activities per sport type, the more frequent and recent, the more prominent it will be in the chart. However, if you've carried out multiple activities that fall under one of the Sport Type groups (All Ride/Run-E-Sport) -- e.g. Ride and Mountain Bike Ride, then the "All Ride" category would appear before "Ride" or 'Mountain Bike Ride". Apologies for any confusion, I hope it's clear now.

If you have any feedback in regards to the way it's displayed or ordered, we're eager to hear about it and I'll be happy to pass it along.

Thanks for following up, makes sense as a reasonable approach. I had one recent week with a lot of short walks, which might have biased the algorithm to bubble up Walk to the top, despite having less aggregate time over 12 weeks.

I'm not sure how to articulate a preferred solution. I don't prefer seeing Walk as the top result, but I can't deny I did a bunch of walks last week that probably tipped the scale.. it just seems a bit weird to me, since I generally actually run/bike way more than walking ( just not recently), and Run is my "Preferred" Activity Type in my settings.

Hey Soren, I'm still not sure why Walk is the first activity listed for me. I haven't been doing much walking the past month, but a ton of running.. and "All Run" still shows second, after Walk.

For example, since September 1, I've spent ~14 hrs walking over 20 activities. On the other hand, I've done ~29 hours of running (including Trail Running), over 24 activities (combined Run & Trail Run).

IMO you should really take Time Spent into account in the sorting mechanism (i spend 2x the time running compared to walking); but even if you're only looking at Count, My Run count is more than Walk..

Thanks!

Hey Dan,

I appreciate the feedback and I'm sorry to hear that the ordering of your personal progress chart is still frustrating. I've gone ahead and raised an improvement ticket with our developers to document this and hopefully we can make the ordering better in the near future and base it on time spent instead of activity number count.

Hey Soren, I just did a search on this same topic and found this thread from last year. Any chance there's a fix for it these days?

I have the same issue: I do far more running in terms of miles and time, Running is my primary sport, and that’s what I’d like to see when I open my Strava stats. But I take my elderly dog on a lot of short walks throughout the day and I like to keep track of his activity, too, so Walking shows up first when I open my profile in  the “You” section, under both “Progress” and “Profile.” Is the only solution really just to record less walks? 

I’d love to see an option to choose which sport shows up first / or set it differently by default. Or even just not to count activities we hide from the public toward the “what shows first” count? I make a lot of my walks private because I don’t need them cluttering up everyone’s feed.

Love to show up as a runner and not a 45 min per quarter miler while I stand still and let my dog sniff. (ha) Any options aside from just recording less walks? Thanks so much! I appreciate it.

Hi @Kessiah -- I understand the desire to want to have control over which Sport Types appear first in your profile stats. There's no fix for this because it's currently working as designed. The ordering is determined by the number of activities carried out the most per Sport Type. We don't want anyone to record fewer dog walks or have to refrain from recording all of the ways they stay active, so this is a fair point to raise. Someone shared the following idea in the ideas board, and you can most certainly vote for it and leave a comment if you desire:

Customize order/set default Sport Types on mobile Profile & Progress tabs

Thanks @Soren, I shared an upvote and will comment in agreement -- love to see this feature. I appreciate it!

+1 on time spent over frequency!

Soren-

I don’t think the algorithm is properly working.  I run everyday and there are times I will have two runs a day (i.e., if I start earlier before someone joins later I will record as two runs).  While I record dog walks, there is usually at least a day a week we will miss because of weather.  The order of my activities just switched this week to place walk as first/primary activity.  This is incredibly frustrating.

@jtholl76 thanks for bringing this to our awareness. I've escalated your post to our Support team for further investigation. We'll need a screenshot of your activities graph, but you can follow up with that in the email! 

Hey just wanted to loop back and update anyone following along that there was some confusion here with the charts in question -- they are different charts and the one in question in @jtholl76 's post is the monthly activity chart, which utilizes a slightly shorter timeframe (2 months) to determine the order in which activities are displayed.

Soren-

what graph do you want to see?

Every month my running far outweighs my walking and I still have walk as first listed activity now.

Is there an algorithm for the ordering or is it just random and y’all have no idea why it is re-ordering the activities randomly.

This is my end of week recap.  I have 70 miles of running to 25 miles of walking.  For month of May, I have 24 running activities to 21 walking.  I’m still trying to figure out why walk is now listed first in my activity profile.  It just switched this week.  This is so frustrating.  All of your responses say it has to do with the number of activities but this is not true since I have more running activities than walking.  Also, all of my data show that my running, in miles and time, are far greater than my walking.

Hi Soren, is this still the default behavior of the app? Would love to be able to select which shows first. I do log lots of walk time to Strava because of my dogs but would prefer to showcase my cycling as the first activity graph. Has there been any discussion about customization of the graphical display?

Yes, it is working as intended. 

The following idea was shared in the ideas board, and you can vote on it by clicking on the kudos icon and leave a comment if you desire:

Customize order/set default Sport Types on mobile Profile & Progress tabs

This is 100% not true. I do running nearly every single day and Yoga MAYBE every other day and at most 6 times per week and maybe an hour of Yoga per week. Whereas I have 10+ hours of running each week. But Yoga is listed as my first activity on my profile. Very annoying. The way you're describing the algorithm is supposed to work is not at all how it is functioning. 

hey @mbaldwin33 I just took a look at your account. Are you still seeing yoga appear before run? The ordering isn't based on the time spent per sport, but the total number of activities per sport type during the past 12 weeks.

This just isn’t true.  It is still an incredibly frustrating issue.  Both by number of activities, hours, miles, my running far outweight walk in every category and I still have walk as first activity.  So dumb.  Doesn’t seem like it would be a difficult fix.

Running has moved first now. Thanks for the info. It must be that I took 3 weeks off in June and did a lot of Yoga every day then or something so it took awhile to build up 12 weeks of running activities that were more than the yoga activities. I wasn't understanding that it was looking at such a deep history but was thinking it was based on the most recent week or something.