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Thanks to nerak_rose for giving me the idea. Feel free to disregard. I just love stats!



Totals

User Subscriptions: 28
Kudos: 1240 (2016: 400 ; 2015: 146 ; 2013: 94 ; 2012: 600)
Comment Threads: 111 (67 ; 14 ; 4 ; 26)
Bookmarks: 245 (106 ; 17 ; 5 ; 117)
Word Count: 276,075 (187,098 ; 6487 ; 1,531 ; 80,959)
Hits: 38,921 (6,681 ; 5,620 ; 1,978 ; 24,643)

# of fics per fandom

Cabin Pressure: 1
Supernatural RPF: 2
Leverage: 6
Sherlock (BBC): 7*
Merlin: 23**

* out of which 2 are bonus material (illustrations) for a Big Bang, so this, technically, brings the number down to five, putting it between Supernatural RPF and Levergae
**out of which 17 are Podfics, 2 are alternate versions of each other (one illustrated, one text only), which means that I only have 5 original works in this fandom, and therefore it, again, technically, ranks between Leverage and Supernatural RPF

Top 10 by Hits [1]

All those things I told myself to forget (And to make it through) Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 41,824 words, 6,140 Hits
A Thousand Summers Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 4,376 words, 4,424 Hits
I spilled your blood on the floor Sherlock (BBC), Teen+, 848 words, 2,762 Hits
Standing right in Front of You (Illustrated Version) Merlin (BBC), Mature, 75,523 words, 2,695 Hits
all the places you find love Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 5,244 words, 1,686 Hits
Warning Sign Leverage, General, 1,536 words, 1,284 Hits
You Still Do That To Me Leverage, General, 1,035 words, 1,202 Hits
Wrong Number Merlin (BBC), General, 485 words, 1,116 Hits
Christmas Holidays Aren't What They Used to Be Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 32,689 words, 1,094 Hits
Courage Cabin Pressure, General, 748 words, 1,074 Hits

Top 10 by Kudos [1]

Standing right in Front of You (Illustrated Version) Merlin (BBC), Mature, 75,523 words, 173 Kudos
All those things I told myself to forget (And to make it through) Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 41,824 words, 149 Kudos
A Thousand Summers Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 4,376 words, 137 Kudos
Wrong Number Merlin (BBC), General, 485 words, 98 Kudos
all the places you find love Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 5,244 words, 76 Kudos
Courage Cabin Pressure, General, 748 words, 54 Kudos
You Still Do That To Me Leverage, General, 1,035 words, 45 Kudos
I spilled your blood on the floor Sherlock (BBC), Teen+, 848 words, 45 Kudos
Warning Sign Leverage, General, 1,536 words, 40 Kudos
Black Sherlock (BBC), General, 783 words, 40 Kudos

Top 10 by Bookmarks [1]

Standing right in Front of You (Illustrated Version) Merlin (BBC), Mature, 75,523 words, 62 Bookmarks
All those things I told myself to forget (And to make it through) Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 41,824 words, 51 Bookmarks
A Thousand Summers Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 4,376 words, 47 Bookmarks
all the places you find love Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 5,244 words, 12 Bookmarks
Christmas Holidays Aren't What They Used to Be Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 32,689 words, 12 Bookmarks
You Gotta Dance Supernatural RPF, Explicit, 24,084 words, 8 Bookmarks
Wrong Number Merlin (BBC), General, 485 words, 8 Bookmarks
I spilled your blood on the floor Sherlock (BBC), Teen+, 848 words, 4 Bookmarks
Courage Cabin Pressure, General, 748 words, 3 Bookmarks
Us Against The World, Merlin (BBC), General, 381 words, 3 Bookmarks

Top 10 by Comment Threads [1]

Standing right in Front of You (Illustrated Version) Merlin (BBC), Mature, 75,523 words, 43 Threads
All those things I told myself to forget (And to make it through) Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 41,824 words, 14 Threads
Us Against The World, Merlin (BBC), General, 381 words, 7 Threads
Christmas Holidays Aren't What They Used to Be Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 32,689 words, 7 Threads
Wrong Number Merlin (BBC), General, 485 words, 6 Threads
A Thousand Summers Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 4,376 words, 4 Threads
all the places you find love Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 5,244 words, 4 Threads
Courage Cabin Pressure, General, 748 words, 3 Threads
You Still Do That To Me Leverage, General, 1,035 words, 2 Threads
I spilled your blood on the floor Sherlock (BBC), Teen+, 848 words, 2 Threads

Top 10 by wordcount [1]

Standing right in Front of You (Annotated Text Only Version) Merlin (BBC), Mature, 78,020 words
All those things I told myself to forget (And to make it through) Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 41,824 words
Christmas Holidays Aren't What They Used to Be Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 32,689 words
You Gotta Dance Supernatural RPF, Explicit, 24,084 words
all the places you find love Merlin (BBC), Explicit, 5,244 words
A Thousand Summers Sherlock (BBC), Explicit, 4,376 words
Warning Sign Leverage, General, 1,536 words
Here With Me Leverage, General, 1,418 words
Because Compromising is what Grownups do Supernatural RPF, General, 1,197 words
Memories Leverage, General, 1,160 words

[1] Leaving out any alternate versions, podfics, or bonus materials that aren't actual fiction.

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It's infinitely interesting to me that, even though Sherlock fandom used to produce the most hits, they rarely left kudos or comments. If I do the math for the top 3 Sherlock fics (13,326 Hits between them), only every 40th hit produced a kudo, and only every 666th hit ended in a comment. At least every 130th hit made someone bookmark a Sherlock fic.

Compare that to Merlin fandom: The three fics with the most hits still only come up to 4,497 Hits, but: every 13th hit is a Kudo, every 85th hit is a Comment, and every 55th hit is a Bookmark

Which means that even though Merlin fandom is less active overall, those that are active are far more appreciative of the fanworks created.

To be fair: I haven't received any more hits on Sherlock fics since 2013 - when I posted the last Sherlock fic. That means that when I first posted the Sherlock stories, people were all over it, but now that time has passed, canon has moved along, and millions of stories have been written, mine have been buried. Which, tbh, is a blessing XD

It also means that Sherlock fandom, at large, did read (or at least hit) my stories when they were first posted. The fact that all those 13k hits were produced in the span of not even 2 whole years (I posted the first story in March 2012, and the last in November 2013), speaks of how massive the Sherlock fandom is (was).

Which makes me wonder how many hits, kudos, comments, etc. I would've received if I'd posted Merlin fic during that time. The show was just ending. Could be that the fandom was less appreciative of authors back then (since there was still new material to work with), or maybe they've always been this supportive.

Overall I'm pleased that my Merlin fics, even though overall still behind the dreaded Shitshow, are getting attention - despite the relatively small fandom due to no new material. It tells me that Merlin fans are incredibly loyal (as if I didn't already know that).

It should be said though that I think that a lot of traction comes from posting to fests. Standing right in front of you was for ACBB last year, all the places you find love for a relatively large scale Secret Santa thing on tumblr in 2015. In comparison, Wrong Number and Christmas Holidays Aren't What They Used to Be were posted (almost) separately. (Christmas Hols was written for a super small, barely frequented holiday themed fest on LJ, and Wrong Number was a tiny ficlet for COiNELOT, a con I co-organised/hosted last year.)

Which is one more reason why I prefer to post for challenges and fests. The audience is automatically bigger because most participants make a point of reading other participants' stories out of solidarity. And those fests/challenges get outside attention as well. Especially ACBB.

This was fun. I shall do it again next year :D