The somewhat oddity of "views"

[SophiaY]

I was taking a look at my submissions (okay, a certain curiosity as to how well my latest story was being received), and was struck by the scattershot number of views of each story. No rhyme or trend that I could discern -- time or length or popularity didn't show any pattern. Which is why I call it somewhat odd.

Has anyone else had the same reaction?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I was taking a look at my submissions (okay, a certain curiosity as to how well my latest story was being received), and was struck by the scattershot number of views of each story. No rhyme or trend that I could discern -- time or length or popularity didn't show any pattern. Which is why I call it somewhat odd.

Has anyone else had the same reaction?

AS far as I can discern, views don't really tell you much. If reader A wants to read the story below yours and clicks yours by acident, it's a view, even if he immediatly back clikcs and selects the story he meant to read. Likewise a mommy reading your story, might enter and leave ten of fifteen times to handle emergencies, if she were uncomfortable leaving the story up on the machine.

At best then, to me me, views show a general interest level. 10K views tells me a work is getting at least perused as I can't imagine 10K oopsies.

 

[SophiaY]

AS far as I can discern, views don't really tell you much. If reader A wants to read the story below yours and clicks yours by acident, it's a view, even if he immediatly back clikcs and selects the story he meant to read. Likewise a mommy reading your story, might enter and leave ten of fifteen times to handle emergencies, if she were uncomfortable leaving the story up on the machine.

At best then, to me me, views show a general interest level. 10K views tells me a work is getting at least perused as I can't imagine 10K oopsies.

Good point, I hadn't thought of that. (laughing) An old habit of mine -- counting the crowd, even if the size of the audience didn't matter.

Not that the number of readers really does matter, at least to me. I write because I like the process, the way it sparkles my imagination. I submit them because I hope it might do the same for some others -- how many others isn't really important.

 

[Ada Stuart]

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I was taking a look at my submissions (okay, a certain curiosity as to how well my latest story was being received), and was struck by the scattershot number of views of each story. No rhyme or trend that I could discern -- time or length or popularity didn't show any pattern. Which is why I call it somewhat odd.

Has anyone else had the same reaction?

Yep. I've also wondered why some stories get hundreds of views in one day, and then almost none for the next day. Really strange.

But, I have noticed a higher numbers of views during holidays (no surprise there), but mostly it depends on the title I think. A good title provides thousands of views so from now one I'm working harder on the titles - maybe that will improve my rating.......