Star Trek Fan Fiction Stats

Stats!

I am privileged – a lot of people read my works, and seem to like them. I keep basic statistics, and try to match them across sites. However, that’s not always possible.

 Misleading Read Numbers

For sites like The G & T Show and Archer’s Angels,  forum posting is the only option.

Hence each post generates a read (more like view). A thirty-chapter novel automatically gets thirty attributed reads. Editing generates at least another read. This creates misleadingly higher numbers.

On Trek United, since the forum was set to show twenty posts per page, a twenty-one-chapter novel not only generated twenty posting ‘reads’. It also generated another read every time a reader or I clicked to the following page. A twenty-two chapter work would generate twenty-four reads. This is twenty-two for the chapters and two for page flips to post the final two chapters.

Read counts also rise when Google sends out its spider bots. I did not list read counts when a story was posted in conjunction with others’ forum postings, e. g. answers to open challenges. This is because it’s impossible to tell from the read counts which story is being read, mine or someone else’s. Another issue is read counts do not show unique readers. One person reading one chapter fifty times, or one person reading fifty chapters, or fifty people reading one chapter, all show up as fifty reads.

The tables show combined postings read counts, even at sites now defunct.

Review Counts

Reviews are considerably more reliable. These numbers do not include comments on social sites like Twitter or Facebook. The numbers also do not include reviews, praise, or blame in emails or private messages.

Read/Chapter Averages

These figures are offered for interest’s sake.

But they can be misleading, as high read count one-chapter quickies have higher averages. This is due to lower denominators.

In some ways, though, this helps to counterbalance the problem of jacked-up read counts, as mentioned above.

Caveat emptor.

 Upshot

The tables have accuracy issues. However, it’s safe to claim a work with combined reads of over 1,000 is a winner, and one with over 5,000 is even better. There are a rarefied few with over 30,000 (Reversal has over 100,000; Together (over 60,000), Fortune,  and Intolerance and The Three of Us have over 40,000; and He Stays a Stranger, Temper,  Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, and are the other stories with over 30,000 reads). The love is definitely there.

Same with reviews. Readers probably like anything with ten or more reviews. Readers probably like even more when works have twenty or more reviews. They probably love works with over 140 reviews (Broken Seal, Brown, and Ceremonial). Reversal, Gainful, and The Tribe are the only fanfiction stories with over two hundred reviews so far. Revved Up has over five hundred reviews, but it is wholly original fiction and so is not exactly comparable. The Social Media Guide, which is also not comparable, also has over 500. I guess people really love it!

I thank all readers and reviewers. Your encouragement makes me happy, your attention makes me happy, and your critiques make me a better writer. I am humbly grateful.

All Multiple Chapter Stories with at least 10,000 Combined Reads/Views and at least 50 Reviews

Title	Review Totals	Read Totals	# of Words	Series
Across the Universe	68	12,003	13,065	ERI
Concord	66	14,777	19,813	INT
Conversations with Heroes	136	13,265	1,704	IBD
Crackerjack	79	15,306	9,046	INT
Flight of the Bluebird	62	30,497	22,016	EME
Fortune	67	52,096	119,115	IBD
Hold Your Dominion	51	23,637	6,951	DOM
Intolerance	140	53,209	33,152	IBD
Ohio	71	30,012	37,765	HGW
Reversal	299	128,648	71,595	IBD
Take Back the Night	107	27,678	21,850	EME
The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat	62	16,679	6,629	IBD
Together	83	71,884	74,375	IBD

Single Chapter Stories with at least 20,000 Combined Reads/Views and any number of Reviews

Title	Review Totals	Read Totals	# of Words	Series
Cobbled Together	110	21,324	625	IBD
Detroit Rock City	121	20,063	930	IBD
First Born	113	25,850	4,868	HGW
Harvest	104	20,126	1,360	IBD
If You Can’t Stand the Heat	110	22,620	2,313	IBD
More, More, More!	106	22,415	3,528	IBD
Paving Stones	114	22,703	2,868	HAL
The High Cost of Dissidence	134	20,792	1,625	HAL
Throwing Rocks at Looking Glass Houses	104	22,109	7,026	HAL
Waiting	105	20,808	648	IBD

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