AO3 Fun Facts

[elz]

I'm really not up to reading anything about anything at this point (I'm building a blanket fort and hunkering down with this season of Merlin), but here are some fun behind-the-scenes stats from AO3:

• In October 2011, AO3 had almost 500,000 unique visitors and almost 19 million pageviews. Right now, there are over 2,600 people in our invite queue. (We hope to lower that soon!)
• We started doing self-hosted analytics in July, and the average number of pageviews per day has almost tripled just since then. We hit about 860,000 in a 24-hour period this Sunday, which was up from about 760,000 the Sunday before.
• Traffic is always highest on Sundays. Posting is generally more evenly distributed across the week, although it is a little higher on weekends.
• The most popular fandom on the site (by traffic) is Homestuck, and it has been for as long as I've been checking the stats.
• The fandom with the most works is (unsurprisingly) Harry Potter, with 15,495.
• If you want to rack up the hits, write a long Sherlock or XMFC AU WIP. Bonus points for mpreg or kidfic!
• Relatedly (apart from the mpreg, as far as I know), abundantlyqueer's Two Two Bravo Baker is its own phenomenon, with over 1,800 comments and almost 80,000 hits.
• About half the users of the archive (13,000) have posted at least one work.
• There are 602 works over 100,000 words long. The longest work in the site is 863,000+ words. And that one's a WIP! (Glass Houses by Viridian5 in Weiß Kreuz fandom)
• In addition to 25,000 users and 245,000 works, the site is home to 230,000 bookmarks and 10,000 series. There are about 200,000 tags in our system, of which about 100,000 are official versions.
• AO3 includes works written in 24 different languages, from Spanish (1,400+) and Russian (600+), to Latin (5) and Esperanto (10).
• Kudos were introduced on the archive last December, and in that time, people have left 1.1 million of them for one another! ♥

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

1.1 million kudos? Wow. That's... wow. <3

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[(Anonymous)]

You've raelly helped me understand the issues. Thanks.

[celli]

*kudos you*

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[(Anonymous)]

I guess finding useful, reilable information on the internet isn't hopeless after all.

[samvara]

I love your stats, love, love, love them.

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[(Anonymous)]

Rant rant rant fume fume! YES! I HATE these friggin voitficarien things and I am sighted and hearing. I have had probs not just w/google but many other sites. Filling it out (guessing) again and again till I finally get lucky or give up. My eyesight isn't ideal, and I'm a bit neurologically quirky, but I think these things have got to be problems for most of the population!However, I have noticed, in the past year, that many sites seem to have made their wavy letters/words not QUITE as impossible as before, but the audio CAPTCHAs my god! totally impossible.Also, what about the options for deafblind users? My best online friend is deafblind, uses the computer for *everything* and is constantly thwarted by these friggin spam controls. There has GOT to be a better way. I'm going to try to write to google, now that I have this info from you on how to do it thank you.

[hl]

Wow, love the stats!

[unjapanologist]

*loves*

Kudos being the best thing since sliced bread, I'm not entirely surprised at that number. Still, whoa.

[lian]

You know, seeing as I remember it from the last set of stats: I'm kind of rooting for some underdog to overtake "Glass Houses" someday! (but I'm still too intimidated to read it...oy.)

[par_avion]

♥ ♥ ♥

[true_statement]

I &heart; kudos. And Merlin!

[true_statement]

nooo, I forgotten how to html hearts :(

[elz]

That's TRAGIC. Also, MERLIN. This season! So much love!

[rebecca2525]

That's awesome! I love stats! ♥

[artisan447]

Aw, I ♥ your stats, and you!, and everyone who has ever worked on the A03.

I hope the blanket fort is snuggly and warm. ♥ ♥ ♥

[erda]

Can I help you rebuild your fort? I will bring hot chocolate as I don't think tea is good enough right now. And then can I crawl into the blanket fort too? After voting, I will need a nap. Wake me when it is all over?

[elz]

That sounds like an excellent plan! ♥

[amelia4otw]

hee, shove over! I'm coming in too.

[erda]

Oh, sorry, I didn't see you there.

*moves over*

Blow on that hot chocolate a bit cause I make it hot, and I really don't want anyone getting burned.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi Tim,nnThanks for an informative post.nnSince we've had a few days to disget this latest update here are a couple of my thoughts.nnThe places update through some testing does seem to be placing more of an influence on traditional meta data. Those that would keyword stuff their places listing seem to have had success through the new system. I think you're right to comment on the incorporation of the places algorithm being an issue and SEOs the world should benefit short term in exploiting this loophole to page one.nnFor service companies that are based outside of the major cities but service them this model just does not suit. Yes the PPCers amongst us can geographically target through location based DKI campaigns but with the right hand map obscuring ads this could prove fruitless unless you're position 1-3.nnThe recent addition of Google Boost in the US that should hopefully role out globally does nicely mimic the new places listings. Hopefully the similarities in appearance will prove a great new tool in the PPC armoury.nnGoogle local searches will put more small companies on page one that have never been there before. These companies not often on the internet radar should benefit greatly and may start to consider the net a new avenue in which to take their advertising. Be it PPC or investing in SEO. Google's new additions to the AdWords world like the Small Business Center shows new efforts in targeting new smaller business and Google Local search is a nice big hook to catch them all.

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[(Anonymous)]

Bonne soire9e ! J'ai souvent qulueqes "proble8mes" avec Wagner mais certainement que cette "Lumineuse Walkyrie", telle que vous l'e9voquez, m'aurait donne9 du bonheur...JCMEMO

[cesy]

Thanks for posting these - it's really interesting to see stats :)

[isweedan]

Eee! Coolest of stats! :DDDD

[tassosss]

Fuzzytown!

These are jaw-dropping stats, and the coding team has done an amazing job building the archive. Seriously, you guys have done an incredible amount of work and built something that is awe-inspiring to me.

[rusty_halo]

I can't comment on your subsequent post, so sending you *hugs* from here. Everything you've accomplished so far is amazing, and you should be very proud.

I hope some of the feedback coming out of this will turn out to be constructive and helpful in making the site even better once the wank dies down. I wish I had time to volunteer to help!! (I have this dream about retiring to a beach somewhere and volunteering for the OTW in my ample spare time... ;)

[linbot]

This is an amazing collection of stats! ♥ Thank you so much for compiling them. Totally enthralling & boggling! You should totally be proud, I agree. ♥

[abundantlyqueer]

omg. you're like, an actual person who runs the actual archive and in a post about the archive as a whole i got a mention?? i am hugely flattered and kind of horrified :D i'm the kind of person who dances braless on bars and is then surprised when i realize people are looking at me.

anyway, i wanted to say thank for feeling that the whole ttobb thing is note-worthy, and also thank you for being one of the people who provide the archive; it's hugely improved the whole fanfic experience for me, i wouldn't dream of going anywhere else.