Average ratings/hearts per view

[Emotional]

What is the average ratings per view for most of you?

Some of my stories have a rating about 10% of the time, some are 5%, and a one only 3%.

What do yoy see?

 

[Djmac1031]

I'm not even sure how to go about calculating that number.

Math is hard

 

[SimonDoom]

By rating I assume you mean a vote?

The mean view:vote ratio for me is 92:1.
The highest for a story is 211:1 and the lowest is 35:1. So if you getting a vote on average for every 10 views, that's a much higher figure than any of my stories have.

 

[Djmac1031]

Ok so help me break this down:

My highest viewed story is 56.5K

It's currently been rated 963 times.

So, what, divide 56K by 1k roughly?

 

[Emotional]

Ok so help me break this down:

My highest viewed story is 56.5K

It's currently been rated 963 times.

So, what, divide 56K by 1k roughly?

A little under 2%

1% of 56500 is 565. So 2% would be 1135

 

[Djmac1031]

A little under 2%

1% of 56500 is 565. So 2% would be 1135

So basically, out of the massive amount of people who actually at least clicked the story, about 2% of them actually read the damn thing

 

[Emotional]

My highest has been read 7900 times, but has 847 ratings.

My lowest 48,000 views, but only 1600 votes.

Is there bots that drive up views?

 

[Emotional]

So basically, out of the massive amount of people who actually at least clicked the story, about 2% of them actually read the damn thing

Or only 2% took the time to do vote, maybe they were in a rush to go find their favorite sock?

 

[NotWise]

So basically, out of the massive amount of people who actually at least clicked the story, about 2% of them actually read the damn thing

You assume everyone who reads a story also rates it? I doubt that's even close to true.

My stories range around 100 views/vote, and the variation is very systematic. My romance stories get as few as 30 views/vote and my EC stories always get more than 100 views/vote. The romance crowd is pretty engaged, and the EC crowd isn't.

 

[Djmac1031]

You assume everyone who reads a story also rates it? I doubt that's even close to true.

My stories range around 100 views/vote, and the variation is very systematic. My romance stories get as few as 30 views/vote and my EC stories always get more than 100 views/vote. The romance crowd is pretty engaged, and the EC crowd isn't.

Here's what I assume:

I'd LOVE to claim 56k people read my story. But realistically, I know that's simply not true.

All that number tells me is how many people clicked the story.

Impressive number, but means NOTHING if they didn't read it.

963 people took the time to rate it. That tells me in all likelihood they actually read the whole thing.

Has the story been read by more people who just never rated it? I'm sure.

But I have no way of actually knowing that number.

While it's ego boosting to sat "56k people read my story," obviously we know it's not true.

Best I can do is figure maybe another few thousand ACTUALLY read it, which I'd be thrilled with frankly.

But certainly no where near that 56k view number.

 

[SimonDoom]

So basically, out of the massive amount of people who actually at least clicked the story, about 2% of them actually read the damn thing

Not at all, because not everyone who finishes reading the story votes on it. All we can say with reasonable confidence is that the number of actual reads lies somewhere between the view number and the vote number.

 

[Djmac1031]

Not at all, because not everyone who finishes reading the story votes on it. All we can say with reasonable confidence is that the number of actual reads lies somewhere between the view number and the vote number.

I was joking really; as I said in another comment I get not all readers vote.

56k is a great number, but I'm not gonna pretend that many read it.

I'll be conservative and say maybe another thousand or two read but didn't vote and be VERY excited by that number.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Not at all, because not everyone who finishes reading the story votes on it. All we can say with reasonable confidence is that the number of actual reads lies somewhere between the view number and the vote number.

Also, some people read a story multiple times but only vote on it once.

My numbers are similar to the others here: typically about 1-2% as many votes as views, though I have one story that's somewhere around 0.3% - it's fairly long and a bit dry so I expect a lot of people clicked out before voting.

 

[alohadave]

So basically, out of the massive amount of people who actually at least clicked the story, about 2% of them actually read the damn thing

Of the people who read it, only 2% gave it a rating. They probably did read through it and then moved on to the next story without rating.

 

[MajorRewrite]

56k is a great number, but I'm not gonna pretend that many read it.

My job involves working on other websites, and the software that counts traffic at those sites is accurate and detailed. I think you would be amazed by how many visitors websites get for very mundane content compared to this one.

I can easily believe that 56,000 people read at least part of your story. That’s not a large amount of traffic for the web.

 

[SimonDoom]

I know from my own behavior that I click on many stories and don't read them. I might read a paragraph or two and decide I'm not interested. I'm confident I read much less than 20% of the stories I click on, so I assume many other readers exhibit similar behavior. But if the view:vote ratio is 100:1, and only 1 out of 10 views translate to full reads, then it means only 1 out of 10 full readers actually vote on the story. I have no idea what the ratios really are, but the more optimistic we are about readers becoming voters then the more PESSIMISTIC we must be in our estimates of views becomes reads.

 

[Djmac1031]

I know from my own behavior that I click on many stories and don't read them. I might read a paragraph or two and decide I'm not interested. I'm confident I read much less than 20% of the stories I click on, so I assume many other readers exhibit similar behavior. But if the view:vote ratio is 100:1, and only 1 out of 10 views translate to full reads, then it means only 1 out of 10 full readers actually vote on the story. I have no idea what the ratios really are, but the more optimistic we are about readers becoming voters then the more PESSIMISTIC we must be in our estimates of views becomes reads.

I'd take 10% of 56k actually reading the story and be thrilled with that number

 

[Rustyoznail]

I'd take 10% of 56k actually reading the story and be thrilled with that number

I know when I saw my first story hit a thousand views, I was amazed. It's now at 68k with 700 votes and I'm still astounded.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Also, some people read a story multiple times but only vote on it once.

My numbers are similar to the others here: typically about 1-2% as many votes as views, though I have one story that's somewhere around 0.3% - it's fairly long and a bit dry so I expect a lot of people clicked out before voting.

This is true. My first story here from 2014 has 130,672 views, but I know from reader feedback that several have read it multiple times. Additional views from readers not being able to vote multiple times can impact the ratio.

I have 22 stories in 71 posted submissions with an average rating of 4.73. With some being stand-alone and others being broken into chapters, I look at the averages. The average views for a submission of mine is 23,073. The average votes per submission is 925. This means that I average 4% of the views voting. Interestingly, most of my chaptered novels range between 4% and 6% votes to views.

 

[SimonDoom]

Also, some people read a story multiple times but only vote on it once.

This is borne out by my observation over time that view:vote ratios tend to increase over time after the first few months. I assume some readers may revisit the stories but they don't re-vote on them.

 

[Lifestyle66]

In my experience, sometimes the views/rating ratio is impacted by many other factors, but I think primarily the story content.

I posted three different stories to Romance, the first two being short, edgy dialogs displaying the assertive and wild wife's traits. Those were rated at 1:69 views for "A Different Proposition" and 1:30 views for "A Different Proposition Pt 2." But the second one only had 1.1k views.

The third story was longer and focused on the wife's troubled past, "Lifestyle Ch. 11 - Demons Past" with just over 2k views but only 12 ratings, or 1:170. So, either many readers clicked on the story and didn't finish it, or maybe they found it something they couldn't love OR bring themselves to hate. (Or there's also the possibility my writing was so bad they didn't think it worth the physical effort to click any star.)

 

[NotWise]

This is borne out by my observation over time that view:vote ratios tend to increase over time after the first few months. I assume some readers may revisit the stories but they don't re-vote on them.

Maybe people read multiple times. Maybe they read the story once, but in multiple sittings. Maybe they bookmark it and return to it one or more times with our without reading it. The statistic is "views" not "reads" and nothing says they are independent views.

I agree that there is a change in views/vote over time. Where I have records, views/vote is typically very low in the first few hours then holds to a relatively high ratio for the first couple days. There's a transition after that, and it settles into a lower ratio of views per vote.

Edit: I got my ratios wrong. They start with a high ratio of views/votes for a few hours and transition to a lower ratio of views/votes for the first couple days. They drop back to a higher ratio later. I normally use votes/view, hence my confusion.

 

[NightPorter]

64,776 Clicks
Unknown number of actual readers
666 votes
23 comments

There's not enough information on lit for real averages of readers. On e-readers it might be possible to find out how many pages of a purchased book were read or the amount of time someone had a book open. On the internet you just know if someone clicked a link.

 

[Emotional]

This is true. My first story here from 2014 has 130,672 views, but I know from reader feedback that several have read it multiple times. Additional views from readers not being able to vote multiple times can impact the ratio.

I have 22 stories in 71 posted submissions with an average rating of 4.73. With some being stand-alone and others being broken into chapters, I look at the averages. The average views for a submission of mine is 23,073. The average votes per submission is 925. This means that I average 4% of the views voting. Interestingly, most of my chaptered novels range between 4% and 6% votes to views.

This makes sense as why the percentage woukd slowly get lower and lower.

I know there are several of your stories I have read 10x over the years.

 

[Lifestyle66]

64,776 Clicks
Unknown number of actual readers
666 votes
23 comments

There's not enough information on lit for real averages of readers. On e-readers it might be possible to find out how many pages of a purchased book were read or the amount of time someone had a book open. On the internet you just know if someone clicked a link.

As an IT geek and somewhat of a STEM focus, I'd think if the admins would tell us the source of the Views stat, we might better assess the impact. Is it those who click on merely page 1 of a multi-page story? Or for those multi-page stories, is it those who click thru the last page?