Bramblethorn
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E.g. why do I have 3x the readers for Chapter 5 than for chapters 2, 3, or 4, and more for Chapter 9 than any of them? I suspect the description helped for the former (Ade gets fucked) and the tags for the latter (included 'fisting' and 'vaginal fisting'), but clearly liking one chapter didn't persuade many readers to see what they'd missed. A fascinating insight, I feel.
Something as trivial as the position of the story on the New Stories view can make a big difference. New stories seem to go up in batches; if your story is last in its batch then it will sit there right at the top of the page for several hours before the next batch displaces it. But if it's first in its batch, it will go way down the page, sometimes even starting out on page 2. In my experience that kind of thing makes a BIG difference to the view counts.
Also, category. Your Chapter 9 is in Erotic Couplings, whereas most of the others are in Gay Male, and different categories get vastly different numbers.