VeloViewer provides new insights, engaging visualisations, motivational goals and in-depth analysis to your Strava data. Simply connect to Strava to bring in your free data and try out all of the features VeloViewer has to offer and use some of the same tools that have helped win 100’s of WorldTour races including 4 Tours de France, 3 Vueltas a España and 2 Giro d’Italia. It is currently being used by 13 men’s WorldTour teams and 5 top women’s teams and numerous national federations. Upgrade to PRO from just £10 per year to use VeloViewer on your entire Strava history.
What is VeloViewer
VeloViewer connects to your Strava account and pulls across your activities, segments and routes to provide you with a whole new world of dashboards, charts, 3D graphics, filterable lists, leaderboards, motivational goals along with your up-to-date leaderboard positions on all of the segments you have covered.
For free you can use all of VeloViewer’s features on a one-off set of your data (25 activities, 250 segments and 10 routes). This should give you a perfect feel for all the features and let you decide whether it is worth upgrading to PRO (£10 per year) or PRO+ (£20 per year) to use the site on your entire Strava history and your future activities. Info on Free vs PRO vs PRO+ here.
There is no need for you to be a Strava Summit (previous known as Premium) user to use VeloViewer. Everything will work just fine if you are a free Strava user. If you do have the Summit Analysis Pack then you will be able to view heart rate and power zone data for all of your Activities in VeloViewer as well.
Summary
Your Summary page provides top level views of your data spanning across all of the years that you’ve been logging your activities to Strava. Easily compare your progress on any metric (e.g. distance, time, elevation, calories etc) between days, months or years. Numerous Eddington numbers for the hard-code data geeks and get involved with Explorer Tile ticking for something a bit different that’ll get you visiting new roads, trails and places.
View your best achievements along with your VeloViewer Score with which you can compare yourself to others from a performance perspective.
List pages (Activities, Segments, Efforts & Routes)
Fully filterable, sortable lists of all of your activities, segments, efforts (attempts at segments) and routes. You want to know the total distance you have ridden below 10 degrees on a MTB on a Tuesday (or any other combination of filters)? Easy, head to your Activities page and set the filters then view the results on maps or in fully configurable charts.
Want to know how many top 20 places you have on 3rd category climbs? Head to your Segments page and filter away.
Other athlete specific pages (Challenges, Wheel, Infographic, Signature Image)
- Challenges – view your progress on all Strava challenges whether you’ve joined them or not.
- Wheel – An interactive Giro’esque view of your activities.
- Infographic – A summary of your year in an easily printable, sharable view.
- Signature Image – Provides an auto-updating graphic to be used in your internet forum signature.
Leaderboards
Yearly and all-time leaderboards and distributions for key metrics (distance, elevation, time, Eddington, Explorer and more) for your rides, runs and/or swims. View for all VeloViewer users or filter by just those in your Strava clubs.
Segment based leaderboard for all of Simon Warren’s 100 Climbs books for the UK and Europe. Tick more climbs or improve your times to move your way up the leaderboards for each of Simon’s books and chapters.
Activity, Segment & Route details pages
Dive into maps, 3D/2D elevation profiles and all the data recorded for your activities, segments and routes. Use the same tools used by the professional WorldTour cycling teams for their race strategy preparations and team presentations.
One of my VeloViewer users has put together a much more in-depth guide to VeloViewer which is available here.
Professional WorldTour teams use of VeloViewer
Many of the top level, WorldTour professional cycling teams have been using VeloViewer’s 3D and 2D route and segment graphics in their race preparation and rider briefings for many years and in 2016 I teamed up with Team Sky to provide a dedicated “Race Hub” to provide a single location for their entire season’s races. Read Cycling Weekly’s article on the profesional team part of VeloViewer here.
The core element to the Race Hub is the same Route Details page that you can use yourself to view your own Strava routes except the pro teams have some key extra features that are of great value to the teams but of less importance to use mere mortals!
In 2017 GreenEdge (i.e. Orica/Mitchelton Scott) also came onboard alongside Team Sky and I built them a dedicated app to sit in the team cars to provide the DS’s and coaches all the info they needed about the route during the race. Currently I have 11 men’s WorldTour teams and 5 top level women’s teams signed up to my Race Recon package.
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Video taken from Eurosport. If you watch the GreenEdge videos then you’ll often spot VeloViewer being used in the rider briefings and in the car.
The History of VeloViewer

VeloViewer has been entirely built and maintained by my (Ben Lowe’s) fair hands from VeloViewer Towers in the attic of the family home in the sunny Yorkshire city of Sheffield, UK.
It all began back in 2012 when my wife was pregnant with our second child and was heading to bed at 8pm each evening. Having that spare time coupled with a desire to refresh my web skills (after 20 years working on desktop application design/development) I needed a project to get stuck into. A cycling friend had just introduced me to Strava and I discovered their API so set about creating a webpage that would show a list of all of your segments with their current leaderboard placings. In its very beta state I pointed a few of my cycling club mates at it and before long the word had spread across various cycling forums and VeloViewer as we know it today was properly born. The features of the site then steadily evolved with lots of ideas shared by users but ultimately I would build features that I actually wanted to use myself.
After a couple of years of providing free access to the site, the running costs, coupled with the amount of time I needed to spend supporting the site, meant a decision had to be made: either start charging people to use the site or switch it off. Fortunately I chose the former which then led to a very stressful 12 months when I was still doing my day-job and working every other hour possible on VeloViewer. In February 2016 the time had come to take the plunge and quit the day-job and focus 100% of my time on VeloViewer and I’ve never looked back!
Kenneth Trueman says:
Very cool site. Thanks for doing this. (Strava athlete #8259) 🙂
B Kenah says:
Very sexy! Far better data access/viewing than Strava. I donated! Hope you keep going. I would even subscribe!
JW says:
Oh my gracious! This makes the actual Strava site look like amateur garbage!!!!!! Well done!!!!!
ss says:
you have done a great service. nice job. I hope Strava takes what you have done and starts to incorporate it into their own site.
Paul says:
Very nice site, any idea when the new Strava API V3 will be released?
Ben says:
It’s already there as I’m building V3 of VeloViewer using it. RaceShape also used it for the rider specific heat map. The more pressing question when will the v1& v2 of the Api be turned off!
Badger says:
Hi Ben, I noticed that “seg score” has appeared in the segment list, but I can’t find any info on what it is?
Ben says:
Hi Badger. It’s been there for ages but I’ve never mentioned it as it is a bit of an arbitrary calculation. It has a go at rating how difficult a segment is so you can compare them. I’m not going to move it across to V3
João Carlos says:
Absolutely amazing! Thank you and congratulations!
Tom says:
awesome work!
StravaKOMhunters says:
Love the new look site Ben I have let all the Strava KOM Hunters know about this excellent data analysis that your site gathers from the Strava API find all about us and are featured segments @ http://www.stravakomhunters.com
Thomas Junk says:
Hey, this is Thomas from Germany, absolutely cool what you are doing – kudos! Perfect addition to monitor and steer performance development. Well done + keep going!
vattenskada says:
Great article. It’s always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained!
Stewart Lucking says:
This is an amazing site. I love what you have done here. Definitely going to donate to the cause. Props.
mark says:
Any chance we can export our data to csv file?
Ben says:
There are CSV links at the bottom of the activities and segments pages.
mark says:
They only export the activity, not the unsummarized data that gets captured every second or so.
Patrick Dupuis says:
Wahouh!! I am developper of web site used by cycling teams and clubs in France http://www.velobook.net. for analyzing data from devices (since 2003) When I saw some of your functions I thought that my website is prehistoric !! Sure for my version 3.0 I will be inspired by you. I think I have to donate something to you even I ‘ll not use your site, because you gave me good ideas for new functions.
Amazed John says:
Someone probably didn’t notice the copyright sign at the bottom of the website.
It shows some nerve to openly leach off someones hard work (as the author presented it in this very same page).
For god sake Patrick, you site appears to be a “business”. Have the decency of paying this guy before you rip his work off! Or ask for permission…
Things like this, is what makes support patents.
Tim says:
This stuff is amazing! I’ve pretty much stopped using Strava except for uploads. From a fellow Sheffield cyclist!
Brian says:
Fantastic website! Thumbs up! 🙂 Does anyone know if I can download a segment to use with virtual partner on my garmin. I have searched for it, but it seems that all the methods only works for the old API.
Ben says:
RaceShape.com lets you do it.
Manousos Bouloukakis says:
Excellent work!!! You must be proud of it. (Strava athlete #1843678)
Dmitry says:
Great job! Thanks! Good luck!
Kevin Flanagan says:
Ben, your site is outstanding! It’s obvious that you’ve put a lot of hard work into it. I’m also a developer interested in using the Strava APIs. I’ve been working on a site called FIT File Tools (https://www.fitfiletools.com). It’s a collection of tools for working with FIT files.
Ben says:
That looks great Kevin. I’ve been working with the Everesting guys and they get lots of people that have GPS failures midway through an Everest resulting in multiple fit files being created so I’ll point them at your site. They’d have to make sure they merge them together before uploading to Strava.
Are you able to provide a FIT file to JSON/XML function? I’ve never found a tool out there to do that successfully. I’ve tried a few but never got them to work.
Kevin Flanagan says:
FIT to JSON would be very interesting! Also, I’ve been looking into the new Google Fit API. A Garmin Fit to Google Fit convertor is on my list.
Ben says:
Make sure you ping me a message if you do add that. I’ve thought about doing it myself but much rather someone else did it 🙂
Mathias Schneider says:
Very cool site. I find all what I need! And its far better than STRAVA!