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

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

I gave up Very Early worrying about unique visitors. [wry smile] I'm still on the free plan and it'd take way too much bookkeeping on my part to track that, so I just look for hits and subtract my own. On that basis I usually run around 5% comments.

Angie