How many views is a lot of views?

[TylerStewart]

I posted my first story and within 24 hours I have nearly 5,000 visits and growing. I have to say this is well past my expectation, but then again I have no idea how many visits the site gets and what this means in realtive measure. I have 25 votes, as well. Is that a lot?

How can I compare this to what would be average?

 

[Guest]

Oh, shut up ... and enjoy your popularity

Welcome to lit!

Maharat

 

[damppanties]

How much wood would a woodpeck peck...

Hi and welcome to the AH.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I posted my first story and within 24 hours I have nearly 5,000 visits and growing. I have to say this is well past my expectation, but then again I have no idea how many visits the site gets and what this means in realtive measure. I have 25 votes, as well. Is that a lot?

How can I compare this to what would be average?

It all depends on what section you posted in. 5,000 is a lot for the Sci-Fi section, but nothing compared to the Incest section. I have stories in Celebrities that have a total of 15,000 (which is a lot for over there), and stories in Incest which have over 300,000 (which is a lot, but not nearly the 1,000,000+ that some stories have).

 

[Munachi]

well i have stories that have been online for years, and have under 10 votes and under 3000 views... and i know other people with similar stories...

as said above, it depends on the category of course. my least-viewed/voted story (though with the highest average score) is in non-erotic, i would bet that is the least popular category...

 

[damppanties]

Also depends on whether it's a contest entry or not. Contests are advertised on the main page and so get far more views and votes than noncontest stories.

 

[gauchecritic]

I posted my first story and within 24 hours I have nearly 5,000 visits and growing. I have to say this is well past my expectation, but then again I have no idea how many visits the site gets and what this means in realtive measure. I have 25 votes, as well. Is that a lot?

How can I compare this to what would be average?

The average number of clicks (not all reads) for all stories on Lit. is 1.7 billion (that's a million million not your namby pamby thousand million)

The average number of votes is 87,000.

So it looks like you're well on the way.

 

[sr71plt]

The average number of clicks (not all reads) for all stories on Lit. is 1.7 billion (that's a million million not your namby pamby thousand million)

The average number of votes is 87,000.

So it looks like you're well on the way.

Obviously you're being facetious here(?) (for no particular reason) If not, I think you've been smoking something a bit too strong for you (or don't know what the properties of an "average" are).

 

[gauchecritic]

Obviously you're being facetious here(?) (for no particular reason) If not, I think you've been smoking something a bit too strong for you (or don't know what the properties of an "average" are).

Your point being?

 

[Xelebes]

The average number of clicks (not all reads) for all stories on Lit. is 1.7 billion (that's a million million not your namby pamby milliard)

The average number of votes is 87,000.

So it looks like you're well on the way.

FYP~~

 

[sr71plt]

Your point being?

My point being that "average" applies to each. If there are an average of 1.7 billion clicks for the stories at Lit. or the "average" of 87,000 votes on the stories at Lit., I'll eat my jock strap. Whatever statistics you were throwing out, they obviously weren't "averages."

Let's try English and simple math. You think that when you add up all clicks on the total of stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit., you come up with the number 1.7 billion? Or that if you add up all of the total number of votes on stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit. you come up with the number 87,000. Fat chance. But that's how you construct an average.

Just look at the top 500 story lists. You getting an "average" of 87,000 votes for each of those stories when you do a little simple figuring?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

My point being that "average" applies to each. If there are an average of 1.7 billion clicks for the stories at Lit. or the "average" of 87,000 votes on the stories at Lit., I'll eat my jock strap. Whatever statistics you were throwing out, they obviously weren't "averages."

Let's try English and simple math. You think that when you add up all clicks on the total of stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit., you come up with the number 1.7 billion? Or that if you add up all of the total number of votes on stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit. you come up with the number 87,000. Fat chance. But that's how you construct an average.

Just look at the top 500 story lists. You getting an "average" of 87,000 votes for each of those stories when you do a little simple figuring?

1.7 Billion reads and 87,000 votes sounds about right. Just ask Scouries.

 

[sr71plt]

1.7 Billion reads and 87,000 votes sounds about right. Just ask Scouries.

Oh, so we're only talking Scouries story sales here. Shudda known.

 

[SpencerAlanMacLeod]

Thank you for bringing this topic up!
You beat me to it.

I have 11 stories on this site at this point (in the last 5 months).
They are all in the BDSM section.

None have anything to do with humiliation; they are strictly sexual domination.
None the less…

There are 6 Femdom with a total view of over 70,000 views
That’s an average of over 11,500 views per Femdom story.

There are 5 Maledom tales with a total view of over 44,000 views.
That’s an average of just over 8,800 views per Maledom story.

That is roughly just under 1 ½ times the viewers for my Femdom tales than for my Maledom tales.
I don’t know if that is good for that section or not but I’ve never had that volume of views personally.

As for votes: my Femdom tales are not voted much higher, on average, than my Maledom tales.
I only have one “H” and it is a Maledom but I have 8 other tales that are all between 4.08 and 4.49.

 

[oggbashan]

I have over 150 stories posted here (as myself and as JeannE D'Artois).

My views range from 2,172 for a 'How To' to 193,581 for 'Incest'. The incest title "Virgin's Sister" may have influenced the high hit rate.

Og

 

[sr71plt]

I have over 150 stories posted here (as myself and as JeannE D'Artois).

My views range from 2,172 for a 'How To' to 193,581 for 'Incest'. The incest title "Virgin's Sister" may have influenced the high hit rate.

Og

OK, I'll bite on giving my ranges. Crucial in this discussion, though, is the length of time the stories have been up. The longer the story has been posted, the more reads and votes it will have (especially reads). Inevitably. As previously noted, the category is also crucial to the volume of both reads and votes.

My stories here span 13 categories; nearly all of them are posted to categories that are considered "slow" here on reads/votes. None of my stories is older than 15 months on a site that goes back at least 5 years.

Reads range from 1,200 votes for what posted most recently--two days ago (and one of those novel chapters that don't build fast) to 39,000 votes for a story posted a year ago. And votes range from 8 for a recent story to 86 for a story posted 15 months ago. (My fastest "read" builds have been about 8,000 votes in the first twenty-four hours when the story was posted on a Friday and listed high in the "new" list.)

The ratings fluctuate but the average for mine that I've just calculated across 213 stories is a 4.62 rating, with nearly 75% H's. (Both the ratings and the H's seem much more generous here on Lit. than on other sites where I post stories--and the number of reads is astronomically higher than on any of these other Web sites.)

 

[Pure]

looking over the 'most read' list, one sees that the top 500 stories have several hundred thousand reads.

but look at the dates; many are 3-5 years accumulating. few in the top 500 were written in 2006, and they are in the lower ranges.

so i would say that if you're in the thousands or tens of thousands, (for reads) depending on the category, for a 2007 story, you're sitting pretty.

 

[gauchecritic]

My point being that "average" applies to each. If there are an average of 1.7 billion clicks for the stories at Lit. or the "average" of 87,000 votes on the stories at Lit., I'll eat my jock strap. Whatever statistics you were throwing out, they obviously weren't "averages."

Let's try English and simple math. You think that when you add up all clicks on the total of stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit., you come up with the number 1.7 billion? Or that if you add up all of the total number of votes on stories at Lit. and divide by the total number of stories posted at Lit. you come up with the number 87,000. Fat chance. But that's how you construct an average.

Just look at the top 500 story lists. You getting an "average" of 87,000 votes for each of those stories when you do a little simple figuring?

My average was taken from the tenth story in each category summed and then divided by the number of categories. Similarly with the number of votes for the 6th story in each category.

In my extensive research I found there to be an average score of 4.9 for all stories on Lit. That there is a total (at that time) of 2.5 trillion stories. (surprisingly one and three quarter trillion of them in the sci-fi category and a total of only 26 stories in the incest cat.)
There were 15 occurrences of the word "cunt" on the entire Lit site.
There was a total of eight Public Comments (two of them for the same story)
There was (at that time and likely to have doubled by this time) 4 quadrillion PMs sent from cloudy to stella.

Fact. End of.

 

[sr71plt]

My average was taken from the tenth story in each category summed and then divided by the number of categories. Similarly with the number of votes for the 6th story in each category.

In my extensive research I found there to be an average score of 4.9 for all stories on Lit. That there is a total (at that time) of 2.5 trillion stories. (surprisingly one and three quarter trillion of them in the sci-fi category and a total of only 26 stories in the incest cat.)
There were 15 occurrences of the word "cunt" on the entire Lit site.
There was a total of eight Public Comments (two of them for the same story)
There was (at that time and likely to have doubled by this time) 4 quadrillion PMs sent from cloudy to stella.
Fact. End of.

OK, now I get it. Good one. Thanks for the hee haw.

 

[SpencerAlanMacLeod]

looking over the 'most read' list, one sees that the top 500 stories have several hundred thousand reads.

but look at the dates; many are 3-5 years accumulating. few in the top 500 were written in 2006, and they are in the lower ranges.

so i would say that if you're in the thousands or tens of thousands, (for reads) depending on the category, for a 2007 story, you're sitting pretty.

I would agree.
You know, I get a lot of encouragement from my real time support group.
The number of views that I get for a tale is also encouraging.

Yet it is for myself that I write.

 

[cantdog]

Views mean damn all, actually. Which is what we keep telling ourselves in Non-Erotic Poetry.

 

[cloudy]

There was (at that time and likely to have doubled by this time) 4 quadrillion PMs sent from cloudy to stella.

Hey! Some of those were from Stella to me!

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I have a range between 787 (novels/novellas) and 194,399 (Illustrated) - - - I know these views for the Illustrated work don't reflect the folks that actually read the story though. This story is illustrated, but it's not illustrated with sexual pictures. I'd put money on the fact that folks click to "read" it and then back click after scrolling down, hoping for porn pics, and getting nothing but antique lamps. It's also one of my lowest rated stories, I believe for that same reason. But that's okay. . .I like it.

 

[MarshAlien]

11.

If you have to take your shoes and socks off to use your toes, you have a lot of views. Excellent work, noob! Welcome to the AH! Weren't you just the least little bit curious to find out, after you submitted your story, how long it was going to take to post?

 

[rgraham666]

Got me curious. So I checked.

Highest views and votes, Librarian. 332 votes, 65,185 views.

Lowest views, The Black Mountains. 3,927 views. Not surprised, it's fairly new and in SF/Fantasy. It's also kinda weird with a bunch of cross-genre stuff.

Lowest votes, a tie, The Dream and Information Disease. 28 votes.