In it for the long haul

[Djmac1031]

Well for what its worth, this is the current stats on my very first story.

I still see it get added to Favorites from time to time.

https://imgur.com/a/MRMorNF

 

[designatedvictim]

That wouldn't be a very useful number though, because actual views-per-day-over-time would almost certainly look like this:

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Views-per-day does just that and, I suppose, is technically inflated due to the front-loading of views.

More fitting, I think, is views-each-day (or the daily change), which is likely to be lower, if generally following the same curve, but since it shows daily traffic, spikes show more easily than a straight daily average.

I've been logging my crap for the better part of a year. It was nice seeing the traffic increase on my older stuff when my most recent story went live at the end of January.

I have a simple little we page to spit out the same set of graphs over all my stuff.

 

[TheLobster]

That wouldn't be a very useful number though, because actual views-per-day-over-time would almost certainly look like this:

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Infinite views on the first day :O

 

[old_prof]

Infinite views on the first day :O

The problem is the graph is asymptotic, so nothing can actually jump from unpublished to published. Maybe this is why the stories get caught in permanent purgatory, they're waiting for that infinite views that first day.

 

[alohadave]

That wouldn't be a very useful number though, because actual views-per-day-over-time would almost certainly look like this:

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Depends on the story and if you count the first couple of weeks. Arguably, the initial views are outliers and not indicative of views over time. If you remove them from the graph, it will show a more reasonable view of how many views a story gets over time.