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The problem is the graph is asymptotic, so nothing can actually jump from unpublished to published.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.

 

[jsmiam]

Apologies if I missed where this was said already.

You can tap or hover over the star, the heart, the bar, or the callout icon to show the full and untruncated number. It’s truncated, not rounded, so 13.1 could be 13,100 through 13,199.

So there is a way to see your current daily counts, assuming you check today and again tomorrow. Probably an average of the past 7 days is better than just one days number.

A story being on a toplist will have quite a bit more views per day once it’s no longer shiny and new, compared to stories not on a toplist.

 

[designatedvictim]

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.

One of the things I've built into my graphing tool is a mechanism to view only the last XX% of the data points, so I can do just that: strip out the early tranche and see the longer-term, post-any-sort-of-list data more clearly.

I'll stop posting on this here (or we can start a new thread), this thread's been hijacked too much already and I like seeing how everyone's first stories have been doing.

 

[NoTalentHack]

It’s not my most viewed, but it is in the running.

 

[Rob_Royale]

My first was Mama's Beach House that I posted in Oct. '22. Its rated well and I would say its still gets a fair bit of traffic, though I no longer keep daily stats. It's my only story over 100K views, though there are a couple getting close. It's also my second highest on comments and people really seem to like it.
I think stories in this genre are popular and I think having Mama in the title gets hits from people using the tag search. It's certainly not my best story, but my heart was in it when I wrote it and I think that comes through. I wrote a WIWAW for it because it has an unusual genesis and I wanted people to know she was real.

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Out of curiosity, I noted this story's total views on 2/26 and then again today 3/3. In those five days it got 149 views. Nearly thirty a day on average? Not too bad.