View counts down?

[AwkwardlySet]

I'm impressed with the level of obsession some authors here show towards their story stats.

 

[iwatchus]

I'm impressed with the level of obsession some authors here show towards their story stats.

My name is iwatchus and I've been obsessed with my stats for nine months...

 

[AwkwardlySet]

My name is iwatchus and I've been obsessed with my stats for nine months...

And that's all fine, if you are that invested. I get it. But it's also amusing that some who clearly obsess over stats, advise to other people to just write and not worry about views and ratings.

 

[iwatchus]

And that's all fine, if you are that invested. I get it. But it's also amusing that some who clearly obsess over stats, advise to other people to just write and not worry about views and ratings.

I'm definitely guilty of that. Including telling myself to not obsess so much many times a day. Including every time as I hit refresh.

 

[SimonDoom]

And that's all fine, if you are that invested. I get it. But it's also amusing that some who clearly obsess over stats, advise to other people to just write and not worry about views and ratings.

I'm going on nine years downloading stats and storing them in an Excel file. I enjoy it. The difference between me and some is that I don't get upset when numbers don't go my way. I especially don't get obsessed with scores. I'm more interested in seeing my readership grow with time.

To each his own. I'm sure it seems like a total waste of time to some. As I say, I enjoy it and find it interesting to see how different stories do.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I'm going on nine years downloading stats and storing them in an Excel file. I enjoy it. The difference between me and some is that I don't get upset when numbers don't go my way. I especially don't get obsessed with scores. I'm more interested in seeing my readership grow with time.

To each his own. I'm sure it seems like a total waste of time to some. As I say, I enjoy it and find it interesting to see how different stories do.

Didn't say it's a waste of time. But it shows care. I understand it, really, just saying that some authors seem to feign nonchalance about such things in other threads.

There's no shame in caring about those things. To me, if done with moderation, it seems like a more reasonable approach than the other paradigm that a good number of authors seem to advocate - just write and write, and keep putting out new stories, and don't worry what happens with the previous one; your stories will find their readers.
Now, that kind of mass-producing mentality I can't get on board with at all.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, that's half-absurd...

The closest I ever get is half-assiduous.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm definitely guilty of that. Including telling myself to not obsess so much many times a day. Including every time as I hit refresh.

Do you also tell yourself it’s fine and you can stop at any time?

 

[RejectReality]

Well, it's 1789 views across the catalog in the last 24 hours with 13 new votes and no new favs. Double the views of yesterday. Someone mentioned Sunday being crap, followed by Monday exploding, so we'll see what tomorrow and going forward looks like. I always expect Sunday to be crap, because that's been my experience over the years. Still, it may be that some tasks got low priority on Sunday and caught up on Monday. I didn't notice any dead spots in view accumulation in the last 24 hours. The two I spot check always seemed to be moving, even overnight last night.

 

[onehitwanda]

Well, it also won't help that the mobile layout and classic layout show different sets of stories.

 

[SimonDoom]

I did the stats download again this morning and checked the average for daily views the last two days, and my numbers are back to normal, the same daily view average as what it's been since around March through October.

What this means, I have no idea.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I did the stats download again this morning and checked the average for daily views the last two days, and my numbers are back to normal, the same daily view average as what it's been since around March through October.

What this means, I have no idea.

I think they were tinkering with the site and let some things slide, like the views. Mine seem to be back to normal now, too.

 

[iwatchus]

I just noticed this is showing up on story pages.

I wonder if the final release of this corresponds to anything. Maybe dropped data?

 

[NotWise]

I wonder if the final release of this corresponds to anything. Maybe dropped data?

They introduced the activity archive to decrease the server load (as I understand it). I suspect there have been other backend changes.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

It looks like the views have stalled again.

 

[RejectReality]

1699 views and 16 new votes in the last 24 hours. I refreshed the works page for this name after downloading the stats for my other two and putting the spreadsheets together, which took maybe 15 minutes, and I had two new views on one of the two stories I always check, so no stall on views here.

Honestly, I would expect the next 24 hours to be down considerably. We'll see what happens. I'm still seeing nothing that stands out to me as off in my numbers.

 

[HeyAll]

1) If you look at the top 10 views list... i remember years ago, the top five used to be all over 100,000 views. Currently the top story has 87,000 views.

2) I've always said, readers are more scattered. They go straight to their favorite Hubs and/or authors or search function. Before being on top of the New List meant big views (that was before Hubs and all the other new features)

3) There are so many stories now. The other day, Incest had 30 new stories. Ten years ago, there were days where you could be on the Hub for two days.

 

[RejectReality]

1) If you look at the top 10 views list... i remember years ago, the top five used to be all over 100,000 views. Currently the top story has 87,000 views.

2) I've always said, readers are more scattered. They go straight to their favorite Hubs and/or authors or search function. Before being on top of the New List meant big views (that was before Hubs and all the other new features)

3) There are so many stories now. The other day, Incest had 30 new stories. Ten years ago, there were days where you could be on the Hub for two days.

It also happened more or less overnight, at two distinct times, with next to no change in the number of votes/comments/favorites despite the dip in views. I maintain that it was updates to the bot and spider filters that accounts for most of that. If it was choice overload, we would see a decline in all the other statistics, and I don't see that happening.

 

[RejectReality]

Whelp, remaining pretty much consistent. 1684 views and 15 new votes. Really expected today to be dead, but it's same as the last couple of days.

 

[SimonDoom]

As of this morning, my 24 hour view count was still normal, as it was the previous two days. So it's gone back up from where it was during the down period.

 

[RejectReality]

At this point, I may as well go ahead and loop around to another Sunday, just to see whether that turns out to be a garbage day. 1216 and 7 votes, so the numbers are still tracking together, more or less.

 

[designatedvictim]

Because the thread has faded out has new messages and I had nothing better to do than to muck rake, here's a screen shot of the most-recent 25% or so of the daily view traffic on my highest-view story.

I posted the story on 3/9, so this is long after it dropped of the New and 30 Days Top lists.

This is the rolled-up data for each day. I was trying to get it to display the hourly dataset (which would highlight all the zero-view data points), but I got sick of playing with it.

 

[lovecraft68]

This thread makes me glad I never look at these things. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

 

[TheLobster]

This is the rolled-up data for each day.

Stock looks way too volatile. Would not invest.

 

[RejectReality]

Fuck. Forgot to scribble down the view number. Pretty sure it was 1867. It was 18something. Not opening the document again now that I've closed it. LOL 20 new votes. Steady as she goes, which is exactly what I'd expect when all three pen names have been silent for ages. Les quiet since July of last year, and prior to that, June of 2020. Dark silent since May of last year, and prior to that, May of 2018. RR One in September, a couple in April, and then it's all the way back to June of 2024. Everything I've finished has either been turning 18 stories which I don't feel like tweaking to pass here, or series' of shorts that I won't post here until I finish additional parts to create a bigger whole. I think I actually finished about 40k words in April, but most of it hasn't made it here yet because my muse went kaput before I finished full story arcs.

It's all rereads and random finds with nothing new and a single story on the toplists ( I think. )