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indriWell, I've had webstat thingies up at my site for a couple of days and I've been finding the results quite interesting, even though I've far too little data for a proper statistical sample.
I have a much better idea now of how people find my site. A small but not insignificant proportion of visitors are people who aren't looking for fanfic at all, but want sites on British breakfast cereals or are googling combinations of words that just happen to match a story. For example, some poor bod in India was looking for "smooth breakup marriage" and wound up with Honeymoon. But the majority of people are looking for fic. Quite a few find my site by googling the titles of stories I've written, which is nice as it suggests they've read and enjoyed a particular story and have decided to go looking for more. But the largest proportion of people come via fic archives (especially All About Spike), award sites and rec lists.
The countries of visitors have varied a bit more than I expected. Often, the stat counter can't tell where someone is from or just lists it as "Network" but the remaining data shows that the majority of my visitors are from the US, UK and Australia, with other countries including Belgium and Saudi Arabia as well as that lost visitor from India. I'm surprised by the number of hits from US Military sites.
I seem to have about twenty visitors a day, of which a couple are looking for something else entirely. Most only look at a couple of pages per visit, but one or two might nose around for longer. Of course, I can't tell how many people actually read the stories in front of them. Maybe it's fifteen a day or a hundred a week, something of that order, which is pretty cheering, especially as I suspect most of my readers read me on archives sites elsewhere.
I have a much better idea now of how people find my site. A small but not insignificant proportion of visitors are people who aren't looking for fanfic at all, but want sites on British breakfast cereals or are googling combinations of words that just happen to match a story. For example, some poor bod in India was looking for "smooth breakup marriage" and wound up with Honeymoon. But the majority of people are looking for fic. Quite a few find my site by googling the titles of stories I've written, which is nice as it suggests they've read and enjoyed a particular story and have decided to go looking for more. But the largest proportion of people come via fic archives (especially All About Spike), award sites and rec lists.
The countries of visitors have varied a bit more than I expected. Often, the stat counter can't tell where someone is from or just lists it as "Network" but the remaining data shows that the majority of my visitors are from the US, UK and Australia, with other countries including Belgium and Saudi Arabia as well as that lost visitor from India. I'm surprised by the number of hits from US Military sites.
I seem to have about twenty visitors a day, of which a couple are looking for something else entirely. Most only look at a couple of pages per visit, but one or two might nose around for longer. Of course, I can't tell how many people actually read the stories in front of them. Maybe it's fifteen a day or a hundred a week, something of that order, which is pretty cheering, especially as I suspect most of my readers read me on archives sites elsewhere.
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Date: 2004-07-17 04:52 pm (UTC)The most depressing part is watching the readership fall off from chapter to chapter of a longer fic. It happens with both of my serial fics, although the funny thing about Offerings is that the middle chapter with the biting scene has many more hits than any of the others.
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Date: 2004-08-19 06:21 am (UTC)Note to self: do not post a fic chapter by chapter. Preserve the illusion.