How many votes per 000 readers?

[Altissimus]

Just curious how many votes per thousand reads y'all are seeing, and whether you've had any success encouraging voting in any way.

Currently seeing <0.05% of my readers voting, across my works.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Overall, my works average 14.98 votes per thousand touches.

So, assuming only one read per ten touches, I'm averaging 149.8 votes per thousand reads.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

With the usual caveat that nobody can know how many times our stories have actually been read (vice merely opened) and looking across all of my stories (all categories, all scores, old and new), I get about 79 votes per 1,000 reads. There are of course a lot of variables and unknowns and I think it would be naïve to take any of our numbers at face value or treat them particularly seriously. Interesting, maybe, but hardly anything to bet the mortgage on.

 

[alohadave]

I range from .005% to .02-.03%. I figure it by dividing number of votes by number of views.

It's pretty consistent across my stories.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Similar to others, a bit below 1% depending on category. 861 votes, 109k views for my top viewed story (Incest), but those 'Anal first-time' readers are an opinionated lot, 31k views, 409 votes.
That's 0.8% to 1.3%. My other stories also vary - BDSM readers rarely vote - I guess many click then click away, Romance vote a bit more.

 

[KeithD]

I'm not bothering to do such a count.

 

[Emotional]

That is a million dollar question.

I do ask readers to vote and leave feedback.

One story has 15,000 views and 1200 votes, another has 40,000 views and 1200 votes.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

...snip...
Romance vote a bit more.

My story portfolio leans fairly heavily to Romance and I think Kumquatqueen is probably right about Romance readers being more willing to vote. Over 39 stories, mine vary from 11.5 to 55 votes per 1,000 views (1.15 to 5.5% of views resulting in a vote). The approximate weighted average is about 35 to 40 votes per thousand views.

A few other points:

• The 11.5 views per thousand is a NC/R story (and my other NC/R story comes in at 17.2/thousand, one of my other lowest averages).
• However, a few longer romances (in either Romance or Mature categories) are on the lower end of the votes to views scale. They generally have higher numbers of views (possibly/probably due to the length and not being finished in one sitting) and result in about 14 to 19 votes per thousand views.
• The highest ratio (55 votes per thousand views) is a for a 750-Word Project Romance with a surprise twist at the end. Readers could easily get through in a short sitting and then vote their preference at the ending.
• A number of other results in the upper 40s to low 50s per thousand views didn't have any obvious draws other than not being too short or two long and generally having good ratings.

 

[Voboy]

I don't bother counting, but I do notice when a story feels like it gets more votes, faster, than other stories do.

I've always assumed it's category-specific. Some categories are known for higher vote percentages.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My rule of thumb is one Vote every hundred Views (so 10/1000), and one comment per thousand Views. My further assumption is that maybe one in five Views actually equates to someone finishing a story (a read rate of 20 - 25%).

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I'm not even going to try and explain it, but my recent story, 1990 has 441 views as of right now, with 307 votes. In comparison, my Valentine's Day story has 47,700 views and 656 votes

Feel free to do the math.

 

[Britva415]

Just curious how many votes per thousand reads y'all are seeing, and whether you've had any success encouraging voting in any way.

Currently seeing <0.05% of my readers voting, across my works.

What is the time period you want to measure?

Asking because some authors continue to accrue both views and votes over time. And most importantly, not necessarily at the same rate.

It doesn't seem like apples to apples to compare an author with 10 stories in the last year to an author with 400 stories in the last 15 years.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Usually about 1% of my reads convert to votes. Wondering if some of the numbers people are posting here come from dividing votes by views, but forgetting to multiply by 100 to make a percentage? 0.005% would be one vote per 20,000 readers which is a lot lower than I've heard of.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not even going to try and explain it, but my recent story, 1990 has 441 views as of right now, with 307 votes. In comparison, my Valentine's Day story has 47,700 views and 656 votes

Feel free to do the math.

Your fans are certainly loyal to your novels, is what that tells me. That's an insane ratio!

 

[ElectricBlue]

It doesn't seem like apples to apples to compare an author with 10 stories in the last year to an author with 400 stories in the last 15 years.

Curiously, the age of a story (at least in my story file) doesn't seem to affect the ratio much, even if the story accrues many more votes in later years, compared to its first months out the door. My older stories seem to accrue votes at much the same rate, over time.

 

[SimonDoom]

As of January 10, the mean view:vote ratio for all of my 54 stories was 93:1. That means about 1.08% of my views turned into votes.

The best ratio for all my stories is 29:1 views:votes, which is about 3.5%.

The worst ratio for all my stories is 206:1 views:votes, which is about .49%.

Everyone should keep in mind that views are not reads. We have no idea how many people actually read our stories, although we can infer with reasonable certainty that the total read number lies somewhere between the view and vote numbers.

 

[KeithD]

Everyone should keep in mind that views are not reads. We have no idea how many people actually read our stories, although we can infer with reasonable certainty that the total read number lies somewhere between the view and vote numbers.

It has occurred to me that this is even more so with contest stories. If someone is picking a read off the themed contest list, they are doing so without knowing the category. I'm sure that a good number will click into a story blindly from this list, realize that it isn't a category they read, and then click right back out, establishing a "view" that didn't involve anything more than a click.

 

[SimonDoom]

It has occurred to me that this is even more so with contest stories. If someone is picking a read off the themed contest list, they are doing so without knowing the category. I'm sure that a good number will click into a story blindly from this list, realize that it isn't a category they read, and then click right back out, establishing a "view" that didn't involve anything more than a click.

My non-scientific view is that reads are probably well under 25% of views, on average. That's based in part on my observation of my own reading habits, and upon the huge disparity between views and votes.

If the view:vote ratio for authors generally is somewhere in the vicinity of 100:1, then you can ask yourself, how many people who view a story actually read it to completion, and how many people who read a story vote on it? If the ratios are the same (there's no reason I know to believe they are; I'm just plucking a number from thin air), then it means only 10% of views are actual reads, which I'm guessing is much lower than most authors think. If the actual view:read ratio is 4:1 (25%), then it means only 1 out of 25 people who read a story to completion vote on it. So ask yourself: which assumptions make sense to you, based on your own personal habits and your observations?

 

[PennameWombat]

Just curious how many votes per thousand reads y'all are seeing, and whether you've had any success encouraging voting in any way.

Currently seeing <0.05% of my readers voting, across my works.

As I have no metric to differentiate reads from views (as has been noted), my averages are one vote for 350 views, and one comment for 5,000 views. On the former, it ranges from a low of one vote per 98 views to one vote per nearly 3,000 views and the median is one vote per 267 views. On the latter it ranges from one comment per 1,800 views to infinity - as a third of my stories have zero comments, on stories that reach up to 15,000 views and most such have ratings above 4.5.

The overall average percentage of views that result in votes is 0.43%.

 

[KeithD]

My non-scientific view is that reads are probably well under 25% of views, on average. That's based in part on my observation of my own reading habits, and upon the huge disparity between views and votes.

If the view:vote ratio for authors generally is somewhere in the vicinity of 100:1, then you can ask yourself, how many people who view a story actually read it to completion, and how many people who read a story vote on it? If the ratios are the same (there's no reason I know to believe they are; I'm just plucking a number from thin air), then it means only 10% of views are actual reads, which I'm guessing is much lower than most authors think. If the actual view:read ratio is 4:1 (25%), then it means only 1 out of 25 people who read a story to completion vote on it. So ask yourself: which assumptions make sense to you, based on your own personal habits and your observations?

Fine. I don't do any of that, though. I just write and submit stories. Readers can read them or not. I'm not insecure in my writing enough to grasp at mushy stats.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Depends on the Category. In Lesbian Sex I get about 10-12 votes per 1k views. In Sci-Fi and Fantasy I get about five times as much.

 

[Phantom300]

A quick data pull from my Works page gives me the following:

A high of 1.93% (1630/84095)
A low of 0.72% (503/69717)
With an average of 1.28% (14005/1089590)

my most recent story is sitting at 1.88%, but with just 130 votes for 6898 views
My Third highest % (1.84) is my lowest rated story, while my highest rated story checks in at 0.97%, well below my average.

So I now have over a million views for my 11 works Huzzah!

 

[Djmac1031]

The problem is, Views ≠ Reads.

My highest VIEWED story has 59.9K views.

It currently has been rated 986 times.

All that tells me is that out of 60 thousand POSSIBLE readers, less than 1000 are confirmed to have finished reading it and left a rating behind.

Doesn't mean ONLY a thousand people finished it. But I have no way to confirm how many DID other than the votes tally.

So you can't REALLY calculate votes per READER, only votes per views.

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

Just curious how many votes per thousand reads y'all are seeing, and whether you've had any success encouraging voting in any way.

Currently seeing <0.05% of my readers voting, across my works. author's loose votes because App users can't get vote to function properly

I'm sure I'm not the APP user that constantly get's errors when trying to vote on APP.
So you are loosing votes there what's the % is I'm sure but id bet it's not just me.

 

[JGittes]

Fine. I don't do any of that, though. I just write and submit stories. Readers can read them or not. I'm not insecure in my writing enough to grasp at mushy stats.

I'll bet you pay attention to your royalty checks, though.