Numbers game

[brainofck]

Yesterday was the first time I had a bug already on a fic and could track all the hits on it from the very beginning.

I got hits from "151 distinct locations" and "72 distinct browsers" yesterday (289 hits total). Pretty nearly 100% of those browsers hit the ficathon piece. :D Subtract two (for me at home and me at work), and that's a lot of persons looking at it! I think the key number is probably the the distinct browsers (72). That almost proves what I have always suspected about stories. I think in the time frame reported, I got 9 or 10 comments. Assuming 70 distinct readers, that is a comment for every seven people who read it. My previous assumption was more like a 10% response rate, so I was estimating 10 people per comment, but still. If I knock out the "friend factor" and eliminate cocoajava and green_grrl, that makes it 8 comments in 68. Between 8 and 9 comments for every ten readers. If we really try to massage the numbers and take out kuonji14 because she probably would have felt obligated to comment, then we get 7 comments for 67 readers - close to one in ten.

Wow. OK. I'm channelling Husband now. Porn is the only thing that will make me play the numbers game...

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Oh, statistics, what fun.

That being said, I'm a terrible person, and tend to read a lot and comment very little. And then I bitch when people do the same thing to my stories. Hypocritical, I know.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

I was guessing one in ten based on my own reading behavior. I also read a lot, but (since I started writing, how terrible!) comment much less than I read.

Of course, since I started writing, I read much less, too.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Speaking of writing, *flails about ficathon entry* Dude, I've written myself into a corner again! *cries*

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Can I help? Need someone to un-corner you? I'm always ready to work on a puzzle. brainofck at gmail dot com if you need a sounding board. Otherwise, I'll just continue to work for a living. *sighs dramatically*

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Teeheehee. Imma add you to the GoogleDoc I've been writing in, and we can chatter there. Expect an e-mail from melayneseahawk at gmail dot com in a few.