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snick_backupI promised you more number crunching, did I not? I decided I wanted to compare numbers per fandom (BtVS, SPN, SPN RPF, and other) per site to which I post fic (LJ, DW, and AO3). Here are those numbers.
* Total feedback given in designated year for fics posted previous to that year.
** All hits since fic was posted, including both 2011 and 2012.
The fb/hits % were calculated by averaging the fb/hits percentages for each fic. This seemed to me a better measure than simply taking all the feedback and dividing it by all the hits, because I think this way gives less weight to outlier fics with especially high percentages. I'm open to argument on that, though. (And here I teach math! I should know which of these does what!)
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Observations:
* AO3 is much, much better than LJ for getting hits/feedback on older work.
* This year, I'm getting more hits on AO3 than on LJ for several fandoms, notably Buffy. (SPN is the big exception, due largely to a single fic that was recced on an LJ SPN recs comm.) We say no one's reading BtVS on AO3, but this year it appears no one's reading Buffy on LJ, either. Then again, I've only posted two Buffy fics, both non-Spuffy, which generally seems to get a more positive reception on AO3 than on LJ. More data needed.
* If we count kudos as feedback, then I'm getting the same order of magnitude of feedback on AO3 as on LJ.
* In general, the feedback/hits % on AO3 has improved across the board since last year. The % for LJ has mostly dropped.
* Minor fandoms get way more hits on AO3 than on LJ, but the % of those hits that result in feedback is the pits.
* DW is entirely negligible.
The biggest difficulty with comparing the two years is that I've written so few things in any one fandom this year: 3 SPN fics, 2 Buffyverse pieces, 2 SPN RPF pieces, 2 other TV fandoms. It's such a small sample that any conclusions are shaky. But intriguing, no?
Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. (
DW replies)
| LJ | DW | AO3 | LJ | DW | AO3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre-2011 fb* | 8 | 0 | 23 | pre-2012 fics - fb* | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
| all 2011 fic - fb | 207 | 18 | 93 | all 2012 fics - fb | 58 | 13 | 37 | |
| all 2011 fic - hits | 3926 | 278 | 2952** | all 2012 fics - hits | 1608 | 107 | 950 | |
| all 2011 fic - fb/hits % | 8.1 | 5.4 | 3.9 | all 2012 fics - fb/hits % | 5.9 | 12.8 | 5.7 | |
| BtVS 2011 - fb | 175 | 14 | 72 | BtVS 2012 - fb | 9 | 1 | 8 | |
| BtVS 2011 - hits | 2941 | 188 | 2100 | BTVS 2012 - hits | 139 | 15 | 163 | |
| BtVS 2011 - fb/hits % | 9.8 | 6.3 | 3.3 | BtVS 2012 - fb/hits % | 6.4 | 5.0 | 5.6 | |
| SPN 2011 -fb | 21 | 1 | 13 | SPN 2012 -fb | 37 | 6 | 20 | |
| SPN 2011 - hits | 421 | 41 | 230 | SPN 2012 - hits | 1088 | 41 | 303 | |
| SPN 2012 - fb/hits % | 4.9 | 0.9 | 6.0 | SPN 2012 - fb/hits % | 6 | 10 | 11.3 | |
| SPN RPF 2011 - fb | 14 | 3 | 8 | SPN RPF 2012 - fb | 7 | 2 | 7 | |
| SPN RPF 2011 - hits | 605 | 51 | 683 | SPN RPF 2012 - hits | 277 | 27 | 300 | |
| SPN RPF 2011 - fb/hits % | 2.3 | 6.3 | 1.1 | SPN RPF - fb/hits % | 2.6 | 6.5 | 2.3 | |
| other fandoms - fb | 5 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| other fandoms - hits | 104 | 20 | 184 | |||||
| other fandoms - hits/fic | 52 | 10 | 92 | |||||
| other fandoms - fb/hits % | 8.8 | 31.3 | 0.7 |
* Total feedback given in designated year for fics posted previous to that year.
** All hits since fic was posted, including both 2011 and 2012.
The fb/hits % were calculated by averaging the fb/hits percentages for each fic. This seemed to me a better measure than simply taking all the feedback and dividing it by all the hits, because I think this way gives less weight to outlier fics with especially high percentages. I'm open to argument on that, though. (And here I teach math! I should know which of these does what!)
--
Observations:
* AO3 is much, much better than LJ for getting hits/feedback on older work.
* This year, I'm getting more hits on AO3 than on LJ for several fandoms, notably Buffy. (SPN is the big exception, due largely to a single fic that was recced on an LJ SPN recs comm.) We say no one's reading BtVS on AO3, but this year it appears no one's reading Buffy on LJ, either. Then again, I've only posted two Buffy fics, both non-Spuffy, which generally seems to get a more positive reception on AO3 than on LJ. More data needed.
* If we count kudos as feedback, then I'm getting the same order of magnitude of feedback on AO3 as on LJ.
* In general, the feedback/hits % on AO3 has improved across the board since last year. The % for LJ has mostly dropped.
* Minor fandoms get way more hits on AO3 than on LJ, but the % of those hits that result in feedback is the pits.
* DW is entirely negligible.
The biggest difficulty with comparing the two years is that I've written so few things in any one fandom this year: 3 SPN fics, 2 Buffyverse pieces, 2 SPN RPF pieces, 2 other TV fandoms. It's such a small sample that any conclusions are shaky. But intriguing, no?
Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. (
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Date: 2012-05-08 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-08 09:54 am (UTC)Good to know. :)
Interesting stuff.
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Date: 2012-05-08 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-09 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-09 02:18 am (UTC)Also, AO3 has that very nifty download feature.