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edenfalling) wrote2015-04-18 03:03 pm
edenfalling) wrote2015-04-18 03:03 pm
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[Meme] AO3 hit counts
Oh right, it's that time of year again. :-) Here are the results from 2014, 2013 and 2012, for comparison purposes.
I currently have 359 stories posted on AO3, which is over twice as many as last year, about six times as many as in 2013, and about ten times as many as in 2012. As you can see, I finally got around to cross-posting a lot of my back-catalog. (I still haven't put up the Angel Sanctuary fics, nor the longer chaptered WIPs, but hey. Progress is progress!) I backdate all those old stories, so their hit and kudos counts remain relatively low.
With that said, here are my top ten stories on AO3, by hit count:
1. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 12,707 [Naruto, remix]
2. Trollstuck - 4,910 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
3. Of Stone and of Sky - 3,923 [Homestuck, Ladystuck]
4. I Must Increase My Bust - 3,830 [Homestuck]
5. Four by Four - 3,507 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
6. Dreamers of the Day - 3,438 [Inception]
7. With a Vengeance - 3,026 [Naruto]
8. Weregild - 3,021 [Inception/Anita Blake, chaptered, WIP]
9. More Sins than Condemnation - 2,919 [Naruto]
10. A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 2,848 [Star Trek: AOS, remix]
This is noticeably different from last year. "Of Stone and of Sky," posted January 2014, climbed all the way to number 3! (I am still not sure what's going on there.) "Four by Four" moved up because I posted a third chapter in December, and the two sidefics to "What Isn't Broken" rode their parent story's coattails back up the rankings, shoving a couple Homestuck fics down and off the list.
Meanwhile, "What Isn't Broken" has become even more disproportionately better-read than all my other stories on AO3. I've been tracking it with sort of bemused curiosity, and for the record, it passed 10,000 hits last October, and 12,000 hits on my birthday in February, which was a nice but trivial additional gift. *wry* It also dominates the kudos and bookmark lists.
On that note, here are my top ten stories by number of kudos:
1. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 384 [Naruto, remix]
2. Problems and Solutions (All Things in Time) - 268 [Chronicles of Narnia/Stargate: SG-1, remix]
3. Four by Four - 244 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
4. Giant Robot Mayhem Doesn't Happen in a Day - 235 [Homestuck, Jadefest]
5. Ass O'Clock in Dusseldorf - 229 [Homestuck]
6. An Intricate Courtship Process - 151 [Homestuck]
7. Hollywood Shenanigans - 151 [Homestuck]
8. Trollstuck - 130 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
9. Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 124 [Homestuck]
10. Contact for Proof - 116 [Homestuck]
This is very similar to last year. The stories have done a little internal shuffling, but the only major difference is "Contact for Proof," an illustrated epistolary fluffy/angsty tearjerker posted in October, which knocked "Wherein Two Moirails Make the Best of a Stolen Afternoon" off the list. (Well, okay, and "What Isn't Broken" has pulled completely away from any competition on this list, too.)
I'm not going to do lists by number of bookmarks or comment threads, but I will say for the record that the bookmark list is pretty similar to the two lists I did write out in full. (The major difference there is the inclusion of The Way of the Apartment Manager at number 4, though backdating means that fic still languishes low on the hit count and kudos lists.) The comment list, on the other hand, pulls up some very different stories. That is entirely because of the Yuletide effect -- Yuletide being a fest with a culture of active commenting, perhaps as a holdover from its pre-kudos-button years, or perhaps because tiny fandoms of the heart inspire greater enthusiasm and a wish to communicate with others who also love your particular tiny and obscure sources of joy.
I currently have 359 stories posted on AO3, which is over twice as many as last year, about six times as many as in 2013, and about ten times as many as in 2012. As you can see, I finally got around to cross-posting a lot of my back-catalog. (I still haven't put up the Angel Sanctuary fics, nor the longer chaptered WIPs, but hey. Progress is progress!) I backdate all those old stories, so their hit and kudos counts remain relatively low.
With that said, here are my top ten stories on AO3, by hit count:
1. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 12,707 [Naruto, remix]
2. Trollstuck - 4,910 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
3. Of Stone and of Sky - 3,923 [Homestuck, Ladystuck]
4. I Must Increase My Bust - 3,830 [Homestuck]
5. Four by Four - 3,507 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
6. Dreamers of the Day - 3,438 [Inception]
7. With a Vengeance - 3,026 [Naruto]
8. Weregild - 3,021 [Inception/Anita Blake, chaptered, WIP]
9. More Sins than Condemnation - 2,919 [Naruto]
10. A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 2,848 [Star Trek: AOS, remix]
This is noticeably different from last year. "Of Stone and of Sky," posted January 2014, climbed all the way to number 3! (I am still not sure what's going on there.) "Four by Four" moved up because I posted a third chapter in December, and the two sidefics to "What Isn't Broken" rode their parent story's coattails back up the rankings, shoving a couple Homestuck fics down and off the list.
Meanwhile, "What Isn't Broken" has become even more disproportionately better-read than all my other stories on AO3. I've been tracking it with sort of bemused curiosity, and for the record, it passed 10,000 hits last October, and 12,000 hits on my birthday in February, which was a nice but trivial additional gift. *wry* It also dominates the kudos and bookmark lists.
On that note, here are my top ten stories by number of kudos:
1. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 384 [Naruto, remix]
2. Problems and Solutions (All Things in Time) - 268 [Chronicles of Narnia/Stargate: SG-1, remix]
3. Four by Four - 244 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
4. Giant Robot Mayhem Doesn't Happen in a Day - 235 [Homestuck, Jadefest]
5. Ass O'Clock in Dusseldorf - 229 [Homestuck]
6. An Intricate Courtship Process - 151 [Homestuck]
7. Hollywood Shenanigans - 151 [Homestuck]
8. Trollstuck - 130 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
9. Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 124 [Homestuck]
10. Contact for Proof - 116 [Homestuck]
This is very similar to last year. The stories have done a little internal shuffling, but the only major difference is "Contact for Proof," an illustrated epistolary fluffy/angsty tearjerker posted in October, which knocked "Wherein Two Moirails Make the Best of a Stolen Afternoon" off the list. (Well, okay, and "What Isn't Broken" has pulled completely away from any competition on this list, too.)
I'm not going to do lists by number of bookmarks or comment threads, but I will say for the record that the bookmark list is pretty similar to the two lists I did write out in full. (The major difference there is the inclusion of The Way of the Apartment Manager at number 4, though backdating means that fic still languishes low on the hit count and kudos lists.) The comment list, on the other hand, pulls up some very different stories. That is entirely because of the Yuletide effect -- Yuletide being a fest with a culture of active commenting, perhaps as a holdover from its pre-kudos-button years, or perhaps because tiny fandoms of the heart inspire greater enthusiasm and a wish to communicate with others who also love your particular tiny and obscure sources of joy.
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And now you have made me curious, so I am going to do math. :-) *fiddles with calculator and AO3 statistics page for a few minutes* Okay. The highest kudos-to-words ratio among my fics on AO3 belongs to "Problems and Solutions (All Things in Time)" which has 268 kudos per 1270 words, or 21.1%, followed by "Twice Shy" at 24 kudos per 123 words, or 19.5%, then "This Is Not an After-Action Review" at 62 kudos per 381 words, or 16.3%, then "Sword and Stake (Hath Yet Her Honor and Her Toil)" at 96 kudos per 636 words, or 15.1%, and "Hierogamy" at 22 kudos per 162 words, or 13.6%. Everything else is under 13 percent, generally by a very big margin.
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It's interesting to speculate about why certain stories have high or low hit counts. I suspect the greatest single factor is the author's reputation and following. The fandom is a factor, and so are the warnings and tags. One of my higher hit counts is for "A Horse and His Conscience," which I suspect is due to the rape/non-con warning and some of the tags; but it has a relatively low kudo/hit ratio, probably because some of the people who read it are expecting porn and are disappointed. But I haven't been around long and am posting mostly in minor fandoms, so I think most of my readers stumble upon me semi-accidentally anyway. Every once in a while I'll get a whole bunch of kudos from someone who has found one of my stories and apprlarently liked it and went looking for more, which is a nice feeling!
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I've been kicking around fandom for thirteen years now, but I don't think I will ever be "known" beyond a few specific corners because A) I am erratic both in writing pace and fandom focus, and B) I don't write a lot of shipfic, and when I do, it doesn't tend to be particularly romantic and/or explicit.