Categories: The Tale of the Tape

[Emilymcplugger]

There have been several posts here discussing the pros and cons of different categories and the readers that frequent them. I thought that I would analyze my own submissions for a comparison between categories.

I have submitted 21 stories (69 posts) since 2014 in six different categories. Here are the averages broken down in each of those categories:

Romance (3 submissions): Average Rating = 4.38; Average Views = 11,390; Average Votes = 350; Average Comments = 22; Average Favorites = 17

Novels/Novellas (56 submissions): Average Rating = 4.81; Average Views = 24,191; Average Votes = 1073; Average Comments = 28; Average Favorites = 28

Celebrities/Fan Fiction (4 Submissions): Average Rating = 4.65; Average Views = 5487; Average Votes = 64; Average Comments = 2; Average Favorites = 6

Erotic Couplings (1 Submission): Average Rating = 4.52; Average Views = 10,316; Average Votes = 208; Average Comments = 1; Average Favorites = 7

Incest/Taboo (3 Submissions): Average Rating 4.67; Average Views = 24,624; Average Votes = 425; Average Comments = 11; Average Favorites = 24

Loving Wives (2 Submissions): Average Rating = 4.16; Average Views = 38,327; Average Votes = 785; Average Comments = 46; Average Favorites = 33

I thought that sharing this comparison would be a graphic representation of how readers in different categories view the work of the same author. Feel free to share your own category averages to further illustrate the point.

Where do you see the data?

As a rookie I have no clue about stuff like that.

Cheers.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Since I write in some categories without as many results reported above, here are my average results over almost three years in categories where I have three or more stories:

Romance, 28 submittals, 26.9 Favorites, 13684.7 Views, 4.72 Rating, 492.8 Votes, 17.5 Comments
Hum & Sat., 3 submittals, 11 Favorites, 8748.7 Views, 4.55 Rating, 225.7 Votes, 11.7 Comments
Mature, 4 submittals, 39 Favorites, 31831.5 Views, 4.84 Rating, 635.3 Votes, 25.8 Comments

I was surprised that the Mature category held such a large edge over Romance, but there were four chapter stories (total of 14 submittals) in Romance versus zero in Mature so I removed the multichapter stories from Romance to see how single submittal Romance would do versus single submittal Mature. The result shown below (with Mature result repeated in parenthesis for reference) was generally much closer (except for views, which showed some improvement):

Romance, 14 submittals (no multichapter), 36.8 Favorites (vs. 39), 17190.9 Views (vs. 31831.5), 4.76 Rating (vs. 4.84), 627.9 Votes (vs. 635.3), 25.9 Comments (vs. 25.8).

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Where do you see the data?

As a rookie I have no clue about stuff like that.

Cheers.

On your "Works" page in the control panel, you will see the down arrow on the right of the tab banner. Clicking on that downloads your stats as a CSV file.