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

[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)]

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