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sun_sea_sky

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As at a few minutes ago, I worked out what percentage of stories is in each Literotica section (based on the story count on the main page).

By alphabetic order:

Anal: 1.33%
BDSM: 8.05%
Celebrities: 2.49%
Chain Stories: 0.20%
Erotic Couplings: 14.09%
Erotic Horror: 0.84%
Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 4.61%
Fetish: 3.08%
First Time: 1.65%
Gay Male: 3.78%
Group Sex: 5.97%
How To: 0.31%
Humor & Satire: 0.78%
Illustrated: 0.15%
Incest/Taboo: 10.36%
Interracial Love: 2.82%
Lesbian Sex: 3.92%
Letters & Transcripts: 0.47%
Loving Wives: 7.77%
Mature: 2.99%
Mind Control: 0.98%
Non-English: 0.00%
Non-Erotic: 1.23%
NonConsent/Reluctance: 4.92%
NonHuman: 2.41%
Novels and Novellas: 3.77%
Reviews & Essays: 0.41%
Romance: 4.55%
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2.99%
Text With Audio: 0.45%
Toys & Masturbation: 0.99%
Transsexuals & Crossdressers: 1.63%

By popularity (decreasing):

Erotic Couplings: 14.09%
Incest/Taboo: 10.36%
BDSM: 8.05%
Loving Wives: 7.77%
Group Sex: 5.97%
NonConsent/Reluctance: 4.92%
Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 4.61%
Romance: 4.55%
Lesbian Sex: 3.92%
Gay Male: 3.78%
Novels and Novellas: 3.77%
Fetish: 3.08%
Mature: 2.99%
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2.99%
Interracial Love: 2.82%
Celebrities: 2.49%
NonHuman: 2.41%
First Time: 1.65%
Transsexuals & Crossdressers: 1.63%
Anal: 1.33%
Non-Erotic: 1.23%
Toys & Masturbation: 0.99%
Mind Control: 0.98%
Erotic Horror: 0.84%
Humor & Satire: 0.78%
Letters & Transcripts: 0.47%
Text With Audio: 0.45%
Reviews & Essays: 0.41%
How To: 0.31%
Chain Stories: 0.20%
Illustrated: 0.15%
Non-English: 0.00%
 
Some of those are not what I would expect! Novels and Novellas I suppose is inflated by the multiple chapters in there. Interracial, Anal, Erotic Horror and Toys & Masturbation are kind of less than what I would have thought (I would have placed them the same-ish as Fetish), though the percentages are roughly what I'd expect.

Interesting nevertheless.
 
Just out of curiosity how did you determine the popularity numbers. Not doubting your results just curious.

ETA: Ooops never mind. I just looked again. What you are posting under popularity is the percentage of stories posted in each category. What you are really posting is what is most popular with authors who post stories here. Not the popularity of the individual categories with the readers on the site.

I am not complaining about what you posted and honestly I do find it interesting. I just think you need to clarified how you define the most popular.

Thank you for taking your time and making the effort. I for one do appreciate your efforts.


Mike
 
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JustaSCOUNDREL said:
Just out of curiosity how did you determine the popularity numbers. Not doubting your results just curious.

Mike
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The 'popularity numbers' are the same as the percentage of stories in each category, just put in decreasing order in the second list.
 
On this page:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/index.php

There are the various categories. I added up the story counts to get a total (258,896). Then I took each individual category and got the percentage of that. It's a rough indication. The count of stories doesn't necessarily indicate the number of times they are read. Maybe lots of stories are posted to (say) "Erotic Couplings" but no-one reads them.

But I think it's fair to guess that the story post count would be an approximate guide to the "interest level" in that category.
 
HeyAll said:
Incest is far and away the most popular category.
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Just to clarify, my numbers were story counts, not read counts. I can't easily get read counts (and relate them to categories). On the page you linked you have to backtrack from each story to find what category it is in.

On the page you linked the Sci-Fi story was 2nd most popular, by reads.

If you can give me an easy way (because I'm lazy, huh) of finding read counts, and relating them to categories, I can do a new table.

BTW the word "count" is easily misspelt. I always have to look carefully that I haven't left out the O.
 
This is rather interesting, actually. And just because a category is popular to post in, doesn't necessarily mean it's got the biggest audience (though in reality I would think it probably roughly lines up).

I was surprised that Romance was lower down, but as those stories tend to be much heavier on plot, they actually take longer to write, so that sort of makes sense.

Something to consider when posting - if you post to one of the more specific categories which have fewer stories, it also means that your story may stay in the 'new' list for longer and actually get more exposure than in the high-traffic categories. Your readership might be somewhat smaller, but you might also get fewer trolls.
 
Interesting results indeed. I also thank you for the information! :D
 
Brunne said:
Something to consider when posting - if you post to one of the more specific categories which have fewer stories, it also means that your story may stay in the 'new' list for longer and actually get more exposure than in the high-traffic categories.
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Vouch. This also happens at random to high traffic categories, if the new stories are low for a couple of days.

BUT you get dumped off of the recently popular after two days unless you have high view rates.
 
Fascinating, and thank you for posting. I noticed SilkStockingsLover, for whom I used to copy edit, had four out of the top 20 stories by views on the page cited. Pleased to see it.

But ultimately each author must tell what story s/he feels s/he must tell, regardless of category.
 
estragon said:
But ultimately each author must tell what story s/he feels s/he must tell, regardless of category.
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Agreed. But you can use the percentages to "normalize" a view count. So, for example, 14000 views in Erotic Couplings would be roughly equivalent to 8000 views in BDSM.

Say you post in Non-Erotic, and only get 1000 views, you might consider that pretty good, considering the category itself is only 1% of the total.

Again, this is a story count, not a most-read count. Incest stories may be the most read, but they aren't the most written-for.
 
sun, thanks again for a valuable service. If in fact Darkniciad has left the AH BB (which I do hope isn't the case), are you prepared to handicap the themed contests? A good statistician is hard to find.
 
Sure, I'm not sure what is required exactly. I thought the contests were by vote percentages rather than reads? I could be wrong, not having entered one yet.

Votes (being a percentage) effectively should auto-compensate. But if there is a read-count reward, it would be simple enough to adjust.

Subject to being advised otherwise, I would divide the read count by the percentages above, effectively handicapping (reducing) the reads in the more popular categories.

The admins of this board (Manu?) could easily provide a read-count comparison rather than a post-count comparison by a quick database sweep. You would basically add up total reads and then take the reads per section to get the percentage.

However as I posted in another thread, what a "read" is, is not well-defined. For example does reading a 3-page story count as 3 reads or one read? What if the same person reads a story twice? Is that one read or two reads? If reading a 3-page story counts as one read, do you have to finish the story for the read to be counted? There are a lot of what-ifs with read counts.
 
sun, if you do mean to do a statistical analysis, I suggest you get some of Darkniciad's old postings (if you can find them), or PM him. I'm sure he'd be willing to share some information, assuming he's not going to be doing the analysis himself.

He used votes to compute standings, but provided statistics on reads, which I understood to be anyone who opened the story, whether it was one page or twenty, and whether or not they actually read the entire story.

As I said, his work was valuable. However, he usually posted only after voting had ended, lest his analysis serve as a roadmap for trolls and boosters. Still, his analyses served as a useful tool for handicapping future contests, like a formbook or the Racing Form at the track. Not a substitute for watching the competitors go down to the starting gate on the day, but, as I said, useful.
 
Estragon, have you got a link to an example of this? I tried searching here for user Darkniciad but just get hundreds of pages of matches, none of which actually seem to be posted by him (strange).

I found his website, but nothing specifically about handicapping contest results.
 
sun_sea_sky said:
Estragon, have you got a link to an example of this? I tried searching here for user Darkniciad but just get hundreds of pages of matches, none of which actually seem to be posted by him (strange).

I found his website, but nothing specifically about handicapping contest results.
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If you go to my page, email me from the feedback option and include your email address, and I'll send you excel files with some of the old tracks--I randomly had them from the recent discussion about votes on stories.

I'd thought about doing the track in Dark's place, but it is a HUGE amount of work--it's all manual entry. If you decide to do it and want a night off, let me know--I can manage a one-off every once in a while.
 
Percentage of stories

Hi, new I'm a new member but a long time fan. I recently joined to post some stuff that I have written and looked to see what the most popular stories were which is where I came onto this link...

I was really surprised at the number of incest stories, not just as they get a little over 10% of posts but looking at the top lists the majority of the most read stories seem to have an incest theme.

Is this because other sites don't permit these stories or is it genre that lots of people like in the privicy of their own internet space?
 
PolAmour said:
Hi, new I'm a new member but a long time fan. I recently joined to post some stuff that I have written and looked to see what the most popular stories were which is where I came onto this link...

I was really surprised at the number of incest stories, not just as they get a little over 10% of posts but looking at the top lists the majority of the most read stories seem to have an incest theme.

Is this because other sites don't permit these stories or is it genre that lots of people like in the privicy of their own internet space?
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Welcome to the madhouse and the AH in general.

There are a few sites that don't allow incest but i think the main reason for it's popularity is the fantasy angle. The forbidden fruit kind of thing. You might never do it even if it was offered but the idea does intrigue.
 
sun_sea_sky said:
Estragon, have you got a link to an example of this? I tried searching here for user Darkniciad but just get hundreds of pages of matches, none of which actually seem to be posted by him (strange).

I found his website, but nothing specifically about handicapping contest results.
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Sun, sorry. I hadn't done a search. LettersfromTatyana should be able to help, and I'm most obliged to that fine writer and fine lady. Looking forward to her Summer Lovin' entry.
 
No problems. Darkniciad has sent me a message and been extremely helpful. With his guidance I now have a method of tracking the next competition. Also thanks to LettersfromTatyana for explaining some of the stats stuff.
 
PolAmour said:
Hi, new I'm a new member but a long time fan. I recently joined to post some stuff that I have written and looked to see what the most popular stories were which is where I came onto this link...

I was really surprised at the number of incest stories, not just as they get a little over 10% of posts but looking at the top lists the majority of the most read stories seem to have an incest theme.

Is this because other sites don't permit these stories or is it genre that lots of people like in the privicy of their own internet space?
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If you think about it, incest pornography is really hard to get across in video unless you have twins. If you have identical twins, it has to be same-sex. So really, only a very small facet of incest can be put into video.

Incest is a very popular fantasy, and it best suits literature. There are many categories here that just cannot be translated into video. such as sci-fi/fantasy, nonhuman, mind control, erotic horror, and erotic humor. (the last three pretty much because of the atrocious acting of porn stars)

beastiality, though not allowed on this site, also finds a niche in literature. There ARE videos online of women screwing dogs and pigs, but I think a lot of people prefer to read about it than have something like that be on their internet history.
 
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