Where did I go wrong?

[StillStunned]

Thank you for that information. Will I use it in the future to assess my work. I just won’t dwell on it to much. I have more in the works, and of course this knowledge can be incorporated in the future. Hopefully, someday, I’ll produce a work equal to yours.

There's a thread in the Authors' Hangout with our tips and tricks for getting a better view-to-vote ration: Making the reader finish.

 

[NickAxel]

I've stopped trying to make sense out of the stats. My first story appears to have been well received but after that the numbers are all over the place. I was getting discouraged when I realized something. Every story got at least one heart. I gained three followers with my worst rated story. There's satisfaction in that. One person said I like your style, or better yet, I like your work.

Look at it this way, you can't troll bomb the Favorite and Follower stats.

True, I did receive one comment that made it all worthwhile,

 

[drunkwombat]

True, I did receive one comment that made it all worthwhile,

Excellent!

 

[NickAxel]

There were 2 parts to what I was trying to say (probably badly):

1. Your stats are on the low end of what I'm calling vote percentage. That's the number of votes you're getting in relation to views. .47% of your views resulted in votes. The average from my own stories is 1.48%.
   1. I've heard some folks make a convincing case that this stat is as close as we can get to measuring roughly how many people who clicked on your story actually finished it. A low vote % is likely a sign a high portion of people clicked off before finishing.
2. Your absolute number of ratings (18) is very low. Which means the rating is very volatile. Because of how the rating math works out, a handful of 1 star ratings have a very large impact when you have that few votes.

Did I do the math correctly?

 

[filthytrancendence]

Did I do the math correctly?

Looks right.

Worth noting that some folks around here seem to like to express this stat as the reciprocal. Or the ratio of views to votes. % just makes more sense to me, but YMMV.