Statistics

[brainofck]

After a little while of watching LJ Toys, a few things stand out.

I am amazed at how many people come and read Possession. It is an unusual day when at least one person doesn't blast through the whole thing. It is quite common to see two or three readers a day.

And I hadn't really thought about it, but Adjustments doesn't get the same love. So either somebody influential has rec'd Possession somewhere, so people are coming to Possession from somewhere besides my own index page, or people are at the index page and look at the description fo Adjustments, and say no way, Jose! :D

Of course, plenty of people come in and graze off the main index page. Which is cool. Even more cool, it is common for a person to come and stay awhile, chomping down eight or ten stories in a sitting.

I definitely see readership up on stories that get rec'd or mentioned around on stargate_search.

The Brain takes hits from 24 people a day, approximately, after I exclude my two locations. That's consistant over time. It goes up on days I post new fic and on days that I get a rec or something, but on days when the Brain is just sitting there, minding it's own business, it gets vistiors. That's kinda cool.

Comments

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

See, I love Adjustments and on reading that people are not loving on it the way they should be I actually did think "I should go through that like TEN times today just to show up that other fic"

And then I realized I need to show more sanity than that: I will just reread the porn parts like usual.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Gotta love completely insane fangirls! :D

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

LJ Toys is wonderfully informative but also horribly frustrating. [wry smile] I get a steady trickle (as in a couple per day on the average, sometimes more) of people coming to read "Incompetence," my first HP story. It's a very short (porn battle length) story, humorous, featuring Draco/Giant Squid. [cough]

I'm not at all known in HP fandom -- only this and one other story, also humorous but no sex -- and I'll be damned if I can figure out where these folks are coming from. Not that I mind, of course (although it'd be nice if one or two of them commented) but it seems it must have been recced somewhere, to have these people still coming all this time after it was posted. But I can't find it! [laugh/headdesk]

I'm still getting people reading through "Family Obligations," and every now and then someone will come read "A Hidden Magic." But "Incompetence" has probably gotten more steady readers (albeit in a trickle) than any other single story. Which is incredibly wierd. [blinkblink]

(Not that it's at all surprising that people like "Possession," 'cause it's a very cool story. :) )

I really wish LJ Toys recorded referrals, though, so I could see where folks are coming from.

Angie

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

You now what you should do? You should put an update on that story, dated today, and note your frustration about not knowing where your readers are coming from and begging people to make a quick note, even anonymously, about how they found the story. I bet you'll get some answers pretty quick!

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

You know, that might well work, but see, to me it feels like whining for comments and I get this horrible shrivelly feeling at the thought. :/ If I followed a link to read an older story and saw that the writer had added that sort of note, I wouldn't mind and I'd go ahead and give them to link, but when I think of doing it myself I want to run and hide. I know, I'm lame. :(

I just wish LJ had a referral feature so we could see where people come from. Of course, to do that they'd have to set up a hit-tracker thingy of their own and so far they haven't even done that, so I'm not holding my breath. [wry smile]

Angie

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

I totally get that. Heh. Include that comment too. "I'm not whining for comments, really, honestly, but my friend made me add this update."

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'll think about it. [duck]

Angie

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Did you get the paid LJ Toys, or are you doing all the figuring out?

I haven't put Toys in my older fics, so I don't know if they're getting hits or not. I've only put them in my new stories, and watched the parabola of readership peak and trail off on each.

I've recced both Adjustments and Possession in several places, but I think I've recced Possession more often. And while occasionally people say, "Where's all the genderbend?" and others chime in with, "Oh, YEAH!," I think Aliens Made Them Do It is a far more widespread kink.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you are right about AMTDI v. genderbending. It just amuses me. Wait til I actually finish your MPREG epic! I can't wait to see the hits THAT gets! :D

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Well, like genderbending, I think there's a small but passionate audience for mpreg. I think Possession will still beat it over time, but it will be interesting to see how many hits you get on first post!

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Oh. And I do not have a paid account, though I'd love one. Then I could put names on all my story addresses. It would be awesome! But nope, just sweeping through the P*s every day looking at the webaddresses. I know the rough sequence that is Possession, because so many people do that one. I also know my index page. And a few of the other sequences. Totally cool - somebody read Arena the other day, which I can easily recognize because it starts in the 300s. :)

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

I don't pay attention to my stats enough to keep track of what URLs are what, except when something first posts. I am lazy about my Toys! Cool that the numbers have sunk in for you.

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

and how did the various IP addresses get labeled? thought for sure it must be you with a paid acct...

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

The IP addresses can be labeled by anyone. So I have named myself CK at Work, CK at Home. Other people have labeled themselves. Apparently, LJ Toys will also label IP addresses it thinks it has guessed. For instance, if somebody hits a bug from a friends page, LJ Toys can detect that, and assumes that the person is hitting from their own friends page and will temporarily associate that IP address with that LJ user - maybe even permanently.

What you need a paid account for is to label a particular POST. So I can't go to Grains of Sand and go into LJ Toys and name that web address Grains of Sand. If I could, instead of a P*, I would get Grains of Sand. And then I could pull up a history of hits on Grains of Sand, if I wanted. That's the paid feature that would make paying worthwhile. Then I could just open the readers page and see what everybody was reading. Now, I have to look at the numerical addresses of the posts and either click over to them, or recognize them because I've learned what they are.

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

have you checked out the memes section? just bothered to do that a few minutes ago. if you're still amused by stats and all

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Coolness!

[seleneheart]

I figured out why I hadn't seen the morse code thing . . . because you posted the week in April when we were testing and I was barely looking at my flist. But it popped up on stargateficrec last night, hence me reading it.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Things get crazy and what can you do? :D

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

Noticed a few things myself

- sg1_debrief increases hits from new people
- when I look at the journals of unrecognized people who check me out, I often cannot figure out htf they got to my journal (no common interests, communities, friends, anything)
- even on days when I don't post, I can count on my journal getting about 7-10 hits on individual posts
- on average, in a day where I post something new, the breakdown tends to be 330/75/40 and what is the difference between the last two numbers??
- when I think about it, this is a new form of geographic migration and is utterly fascinating in terms of how individuals form new cultures, create subgroups, branch out and intermingle.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

I have been meaning to go find out what the difference between the locations and browers is. There is a FAQ on the site and an LJ community.

Totally unknown people usually come to me by way of friendsfriends. I think I also get a lot of traffic from people who go to jackslashdaniel and browse there, without being a member.