A Bit of Data Exploration when it comes to Trending Novels

[Ddraig]

So @greyblob 's thread inspired me to do some data collection,

The collection consists of 170 novels which were in trending on 23-09-2021

Title Length

Avg = 30.45 chars
Std = 20 chars
Min = 4 chars (REND)
Max = 141 chars (That Time I got reincarnated as… The Demon Lord’s butler?! Now I should help her annihilate all Humans while hiding the fact I’m helping them)
25 / 50 / 75 % = 17 / 27 / 38

The titles for the most part are pretty reasonable on nuf but you do get the occasional jp inspired titles.

Synopsis Length
Avg = 967 chars
Std = 627 chars
25/50/75 = 507/808/1339
Min = 64 chars (Brightest Doom)
Max = 3562 chars (Days of a Wrathful Demoness)

Around 800~1000 words seems to be the sweet spot I guess.

Authors with multiple series in trending
Bokuboy: 3
Greydra: 2
Waskertyioup: 2
Saileri: 2
ravnicrasol: 2
Queen: 2
Jamminrabbit: 2
Xeoz: 2
I_just_want_to_eat: 2
whatsawhizzer: 2
Basically_God: 2
HappyVainGlory: 2

I guess these guys are doing something right?

Occurence of Tags
Unique count = 565
Avg = ~5.1
Std = ~6.47
25/50/75 = 1/3/6
Max = 48
Min = 1

Spoiler

Weak to Strong                     48
Magic                              45
Fantasy World                      45
Female Protagonist                 38
Character Growth                   34
R-18                               32
Overpowered Protagonist            30
Adventurers                        30
Male Protagonist                   30
Antihero Protagonist               29
Beautiful Female Lead              28
Alternate World                    27
Comedic Undertone                  27
Beastkin                           26
Game Elements                      26
Level System                       25
Reincarnated into Another World    25
Non-human Protagonist              24
Demons                             24
Elves                              23
Polygamy                           22
Gods                               22
Monster Girls                      21
Calm Protagonist                   21
Fantasy Creatures                  20
Demi-Humans                        20
Male to Female                     20
Monsters                           20
Dragons                            20
Sword And Magic                    19
Incest                             19
Dungeons                           19
Appearance Changes                 18
Multiple POV                       18
Transported into Another World     17
Futanari                           17
Age Progression                    16
Demon Lord                         16
Hiding True Abilities              15
Academy                            15
Strong to Stronger                 14
Clever Protagonist                 14
Caring Protagonist                 14
Succubus                           14
Kingdoms                           13
Harem-seeking Protagonist          13
Kingdom Building                   13
Hiding True Identity               12
Human-Nonhuman Relationship        12
Perverted Protagonist              12

People really love weak-to-strong stuff huh? R-18 is also pretty fucking high. Interestingly, the mid tier stuff is all the fetishes ranging from demon girls, incest to futa.

Not listing all ~550-ish of them but yeah. Btw Cryostasis was used once and that really makes me happy :)

Spoiler

{Transported into Another World} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.529, supp: 0.053, lift: 2.000, conv: 1.562)
{Multiple POV} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.500, supp: 0.053, lift: 1.771, conv: 1.435)
{Human-Nonhuman Relationship} -> {Adventurers} (conf: 0.750, supp: 0.053, lift: 4.250, conv: 3.294)
{Sword And Magic} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.526, supp: 0.059, lift: 1.988, conv: 1.552)
{Sword And Magic} -> {Fantasy World} (conf: 0.579, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.187, conv: 1.746)
{Monsters} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.550, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.078, conv: 1.634)
{Monster Girls} -> {R-18} (conf: 0.524, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.783, conv: 1.705)
{Dungeons} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.632, supp: 0.071, lift: 2.237, conv: 1.948)
{Gods} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.545, supp: 0.071, lift: 1.932, conv: 1.579)
{Elves} -> {Beastkin} (conf: 0.522, supp: 0.071, lift: 3.411, conv: 1.771)
{Polygamy} -> {R-18} (conf: 0.545, supp: 0.071, lift: 2.898, conv: 1.786)
{Fantasy Creatures} -> {Fantasy World} (conf: 0.650, supp: 0.076, lift: 2.456, conv: 2.101)
{Game Elements} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.538, supp: 0.082, lift: 1.907, conv: 1.555)
{Male Protagonist} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.500, supp: 0.088, lift: 1.889, conv: 1.471)

I did another association mining even if it wasnt really gonna work due to have 550 tags in 170 series... dont take this ones seriously at all.
Still these all do seem to make sense to me.

Other stats
total views all
Max: 4361164 World Keeper
Min: 544 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 246369.38823529411

total views chapters
Max: 3841504 World Keeper
Min: 190 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 192407.36

average views
Max: 14474 Tree of Aeons (an Isekai Story)
Min: 15 I Will Become a God
Avg: 1502.77

word count
Max: 1551231 World Keeper
Min: 4170 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 187845.54

average words
Max: 10846 Dream Engine: Beta Tester…. D.C. Comics
Min: 361 Kigal-Note
Avg: 2338.29
I honestly probably will check out the longer ones just for the sheer fact that they are willing to write those in the presence of a main page that promotes daily uploads. But as expected, the average is at ~2.3k

pages
Max: 5641 World Keeper
Min: 16 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 683.56

Association Mining

Spoiler

{Romance} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.718, supp: 0.329, lift: 0.925, conv: 0.793)
{Romance} -> {Action} (conf: 0.692, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.023, conv: 1.051)
{Fantasy} -> {Action} (conf: 0.720, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.064, conv: 1.154)
{Action} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.826, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.064, conv: 1.285)
{Isekai} -> {Action} (conf: 0.721, supp: 0.365, lift: 1.066, conv: 1.159)
{Action} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.539, supp: 0.365, lift: 1.066, conv: 1.072)
{Fantasy, Isekai} -> {Action} (conf: 0.724, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.070, conv: 1.171)
{Harem} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.839, supp: 0.306, lift: 1.080, conv: 1.386)
{Isekai} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.698, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.108, conv: 1.226)
{Adventure} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.561, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.108, conv: 1.125)
{Adventure, Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.568, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.124, conv: 1.145)
{Isekai} -> {Adventure, Fantasy} (conf: 0.628, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.124, conv: 1.186)
{Fantasy, Isekai} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.711, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.129, conv: 1.280)
{Adventure} -> {Fantasy, Isekai} (conf: 0.505, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.129, conv: 1.116)
{Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.884, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.138, conv: 1.922)
{Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.576, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.138, conv: 1.165)
{Action, Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.887, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.142, conv: 1.980)
{Fantasy} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.720, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.143, conv: 1.322)
{Adventure} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.888, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.143, conv: 1.993)
{Action, Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.579, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.144, conv: 1.174)
{Isekai} -> {Action, Fantasy} (conf: 0.640, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.144, conv: 1.224)
{Action, Adventure} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.894, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.152, conv: 2.111)
{Fantasy} -> {Action, Adventure} (conf: 0.576, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.152, conv: 1.179)
{Adventure, Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.900, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.159, conv: 2.235)
{LitRPG} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.909, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.171, conv: 2.459)
{Adventure} -> {Action} (conf: 0.794, supp: 0.500, lift: 1.174, conv: 1.574)
{Action} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.739, supp: 0.500, lift: 1.174, conv: 1.421)
{Adventure, Fantasy} -> {Action} (conf: 0.800, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.183, conv: 1.618)
{Action} -> {Adventure, Fantasy} (conf: 0.661, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.183, conv: 1.301)
{Action, Fantasy} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.800, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.271, conv: 1.853)
{Adventure} -> {Action, Fantasy} (conf: 0.710, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.271, conv: 1.523)

Most common sense stuff proves to be true. There are some interesting strong implications too, so you might wanna join the crowd or alternatively try to stand out?


Genre distribution:

Remember that this is from a set of size 170. Total number of genres tagged were 1249. So ideally if every tag were to be given equal importance, the average count of tag should be ~40.3 times. Aka at sol and smut-tier.

Removing the inflated, useless genres like fantasy, action and adventure, we get an average of 32 times. So I guess the gender bender to school life part of the chart is what should ideally the case be.

As such I would suggest to slap the 2~3 useless genres + 1~2 from isekai to mature + your actual genre from gb to school life + ~1 from bottom to spice up your story. The limit is 9 genres, this comes out at 5 to 7 genres. Perfect.

@Agentt asked for some more stats on my profile,
"Number of shoujo written by men/number of shounen written by girls?"

Unfortunately it turns out that Shonen and Shoujo do not exist as a genre or tag on sh. I thus went with Seinen and Josei.
For seinen, there were 12 series in trending out of which,

• 3 didnt list their gender
• 1 was female
• 8 were male

For josei there were 2 series in trending,

• 1 was female
• 1 was male

 

[binarysoap]

I feel like keeping track of which novels get into the top 9 in trending (since they show up on the front page and is what people care about), and then keeping stats over a period of time (like a month) would yield a lot more useful information.

It looks like you just took all novels that existed on rising and did your analysis there? By the time you get to 170th place on rising, it feels like that just means you did stats on relatively active novels as of 23-09-2021, which also means the analysis just feels like what people are writing now, rather than what would make a novel trending.

Still, great job.

 

[greyblob]

This is fascinating. Unfortunately it's meaningless with such a small sample size. Another idea would be the average views of a series gained the day before trending, but that would require a bit too much work.
Also why is your data different than mine?

Spoiler: Day1+Day2 tags

I didn't scrape any numbers so I can't compare those. But here's the reoccurrence of certain serieses and their rankings:

Spoiler

A Lewd Story
#32 #28

Omnicrafter (A Crafting Adventure LitRPG)
#19 #38

Don’t disturb Nasari
#54 #41

World Dungeon Craft [A Low-Stakes, Smile Inducing LitRPG Adventure]
#16 #67

He Who Fights With Monsters
#24 #82

DB: ボールに願い Taming the Tsundere Shortie
#66 #87

What Do You Mean All Dungeons Are Girls!!!?
#51 #92

Edit: I just realized this is from 23 only.

 

[KiraMinoru]

I feel like keeping track of which novels get into the top 9 in trending (since they show up on the front page and is what people care about), and then keeping stats over a period of time (like a month) would yield a lot more useful information.

It looks like you just took all novels that existed on rising and did your analysis there? By the time you get to 170th place on rising, it feels like that just means you did stats on relatively active novels as of 23-09-2021, which also means the analysis just feels like what people are writing now, rather than what would make a novel trending.

Still, great job.

I do agree that the top nine would be better as well. I’d rather see its progress over the course of a year though personally. You could track how trends are changing from one year to a next. There is one benefit to what they did though, the tag frequencies. Since most new readers when not on top nine on trending find stuff through searching by popular tags after popular genres. I’ve actually wanted to see the popular tag stats for a while to determine what readers are most likely searching for and this actually works. Just been too lazy to go and collect all the data.

 

[Ddraig]

I feel like keeping track of which novels get into the top 9 in trending (since they show up on the front page and is what people care about), and then keeping stats over a period of time (like a month) would yield a lot more useful information.

It looks like you just took all novels that existed on rising and did your analysis there? By the time you get to 170th place on rising, it feels like that just means you did stats on relatively active novels as of 23-09-2021, which also means the analysis just feels like what people are writing now, rather than what would make a novel trending.

Still, great job.

I do agree that the top nine would be better as well. I’d rather see its progress over the course of a year though personally. You could track how trends are changing from one year to a next. There is one benefit to what they did though, the tag frequencies. Since most new readers when not on top nine on trending find stuff through searching by popular tags after popular genres. I’ve actually wanted to see the popular tag stats for a while to determine what readers are most likely searching for and this actually works. Just been too lazy to go and collect all the data.

I was going to do top 9 first, but it was kinda pointless to do that for just a single day...
I sort of think the first page of trending in the series-ranking page (around ~25 novels) makess the most sense over long periods of time.

This is fascinating. Unfortunately it's meaningless with such a small sample size. Another idea would be the average views of a series gained the day before trending, but that would require a bit too much work.
Also why is your data different than mine?

Spoiler: Day1+Day2 tags

View attachment 9795

I didn't scrape any numbers so I can't compare those. But here's the reoccurrence of certain serieses and their rankings:

Spoiler

A Lewd Story
#32 #28

Omnicrafter (A Crafting Adventure LitRPG)
#19 #38

Don’t disturb Nasari
#54 #41

World Dungeon Craft [A Low-Stakes, Smile Inducing LitRPG Adventure]
#16 #67

He Who Fights With Monsters
#24 #82

DB: ボールに願い Taming the Tsundere Shortie
#66 #87

What Do You Mean All Dungeons Are Girls!!!?
#51 #92

Edit: I just realized this is from 23 only.

I am thinking tracking it for a month and than just slicing for top 9/25/50 for stats

The stuff pickles to ~450 kb per day so no reason to not store everything

 

[KiraMinoru]

I was going to do top 9 first, but it was kinda pointless to do that for just a single day...
I sort of think the first page of trending in the series-ranking page (around ~25 novels) makess the most sense over long periods of time.

In all honesty, anything below the top nine doesn’t really do much for authors, it’s more like noise in the data collection process. Not many people check it. And just about any random story can get to spots ten through twenty five just by releasing enough moderately competent chapters spaced out a bit within two days.

At that point it just becomes a matter of quantity of releases verses what’s actually popular.

 

[Snusmumriken]

There is no weight counted for being successful. You are assuming the #170 has the same weight as #1.

I would say this is less about what stories succeed but more about what an average SH author writes.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

So @greyblob 's thread inspired me to do some data collection,

The collection consists of 170 novels which were in trending on 23-09-2021

Title Length
View attachment 9794
Avg = 30.45 chars
Std = 20 chars
Min = 4 chars (REND)
Max = 141 chars (That Time I got reincarnated as… The Demon Lord’s butler?! Now I should help her annihilate all Humans while hiding the fact I’m helping them)
25 / 50 / 75 % = 17 / 27 / 38

The titles for the most part are pretty reasonable on nuf but you do get the occasional jp inspired titles.

Synopsis Length
Avg = 967 chars
Std = 627 chars
25/50/75 = 507/808/1339
Min = 64 chars (Brightest Doom)
Max = 3562 chars (Days of a Wrathful Demoness)

Around 800~1000 words seems to be the sweet spot I guess.

Authors with multiple series in trending
Bokuboy: 3
Greydra: 2
Waskertyioup: 2
Saileri: 2
ravnicrasol: 2
Queen: 2
Jamminrabbit: 2
Xeoz: 2
I_just_want_to_eat: 2
whatsawhizzer: 2
Basically_God: 2
HappyVainGlory: 2

I guess these guys are doing something right?

Occurence of Tags
Unique count = 565
Avg = ~5.1
Std = ~6.47
25/50/75 = 1/3/6
Max = 48
Min = 1

Spoiler

Weak to Strong                     48
Magic                              45
Fantasy World                      45
Female Protagonist                 38
Character Growth                   34
R-18                               32
Overpowered Protagonist            30
Adventurers                        30
Male Protagonist                   30
Antihero Protagonist               29
Beautiful Female Lead              28
Alternate World                    27
Comedic Undertone                  27
Beastkin                           26
Game Elements                      26
Level System                       25
Reincarnated into Another World    25
Non-human Protagonist              24
Demons                             24
Elves                              23
Polygamy                           22
Gods                               22
Monster Girls                      21
Calm Protagonist                   21
Fantasy Creatures                  20
Demi-Humans                        20
Male to Female                     20
Monsters                           20
Dragons                            20
Sword And Magic                    19
Incest                             19
Dungeons                           19
Appearance Changes                 18
Multiple POV                       18
Transported into Another World     17
Futanari                           17
Age Progression                    16
Demon Lord                         16
Hiding True Abilities              15
Academy                            15
Strong to Stronger                 14
Clever Protagonist                 14
Caring Protagonist                 14
Succubus                           14
Kingdoms                           13
Harem-seeking Protagonist          13
Kingdom Building                   13
Hiding True Identity               12
Human-Nonhuman Relationship        12
Perverted Protagonist              12

People really love weak-to-strong stuff huh? R-18 is also pretty fucking high. Interestingly, the mid tier stuff is all the fetishes ranging from demon girls, incest to futa.

Not listing all ~550-ish of them but yeah. Btw Cryostasis was used once and that really makes me happy :)

Spoiler

{Transported into Another World} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.529, supp: 0.053, lift: 2.000, conv: 1.562)
{Multiple POV} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.500, supp: 0.053, lift: 1.771, conv: 1.435)
{Human-Nonhuman Relationship} -> {Adventurers} (conf: 0.750, supp: 0.053, lift: 4.250, conv: 3.294)
{Sword And Magic} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.526, supp: 0.059, lift: 1.988, conv: 1.552)
{Sword And Magic} -> {Fantasy World} (conf: 0.579, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.187, conv: 1.746)
{Monsters} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.550, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.078, conv: 1.634)
{Monster Girls} -> {R-18} (conf: 0.524, supp: 0.065, lift: 2.783, conv: 1.705)
{Dungeons} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.632, supp: 0.071, lift: 2.237, conv: 1.948)
{Gods} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.545, supp: 0.071, lift: 1.932, conv: 1.579)
{Elves} -> {Beastkin} (conf: 0.522, supp: 0.071, lift: 3.411, conv: 1.771)
{Polygamy} -> {R-18} (conf: 0.545, supp: 0.071, lift: 2.898, conv: 1.786)
{Fantasy Creatures} -> {Fantasy World} (conf: 0.650, supp: 0.076, lift: 2.456, conv: 2.101)
{Game Elements} -> {Weak to Strong} (conf: 0.538, supp: 0.082, lift: 1.907, conv: 1.555)
{Male Protagonist} -> {Magic} (conf: 0.500, supp: 0.088, lift: 1.889, conv: 1.471)

I did another association mining even if it wasnt really gonna work due to have 550 tags in 170 series... dont take this ones seriously at all.
Still these all do seem to make sense to me.

Other stats
total views all
Max: 4361164 World Keeper
Min: 544 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 246369.38823529411

total views chapters
Max: 3841504 World Keeper
Min: 190 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 192407.36

average views
Max: 14474 Tree of Aeons (an Isekai Story)
Min: 15 I Will Become a God
Avg: 1502.77

word count
Max: 1551231 World Keeper
Min: 4170 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 187845.54

average words
Max: 10846 Dream Engine: Beta Tester…. D.C. Comics
Min: 361 Kigal-Note
Avg: 2338.29
I honestly probably will check out the longer ones just for the sheer fact that they are willing to write those in the presence of a main page that promotes daily uploads. But as expected, the average is at ~2.3k

pages
Max: 5641 World Keeper
Min: 16 Diving Through The Youth
Avg: 683.56

Association Mining

Spoiler

{Romance} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.718, supp: 0.329, lift: 0.925, conv: 0.793)
{Romance} -> {Action} (conf: 0.692, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.023, conv: 1.051)
{Fantasy} -> {Action} (conf: 0.720, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.064, conv: 1.154)
{Action} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.826, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.064, conv: 1.285)
{Isekai} -> {Action} (conf: 0.721, supp: 0.365, lift: 1.066, conv: 1.159)
{Action} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.539, supp: 0.365, lift: 1.066, conv: 1.072)
{Fantasy, Isekai} -> {Action} (conf: 0.724, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.070, conv: 1.171)
{Harem} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.839, supp: 0.306, lift: 1.080, conv: 1.386)
{Isekai} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.698, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.108, conv: 1.226)
{Adventure} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.561, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.108, conv: 1.125)
{Adventure, Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.568, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.124, conv: 1.145)
{Isekai} -> {Adventure, Fantasy} (conf: 0.628, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.124, conv: 1.186)
{Fantasy, Isekai} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.711, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.129, conv: 1.280)
{Adventure} -> {Fantasy, Isekai} (conf: 0.505, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.129, conv: 1.116)
{Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.884, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.138, conv: 1.922)
{Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.576, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.138, conv: 1.165)
{Action, Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.887, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.142, conv: 1.980)
{Fantasy} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.720, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.143, conv: 1.322)
{Adventure} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.888, supp: 0.559, lift: 1.143, conv: 1.993)
{Action, Fantasy} -> {Isekai} (conf: 0.579, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.144, conv: 1.174)
{Isekai} -> {Action, Fantasy} (conf: 0.640, supp: 0.324, lift: 1.144, conv: 1.224)
{Action, Adventure} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.894, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.152, conv: 2.111)
{Fantasy} -> {Action, Adventure} (conf: 0.576, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.152, conv: 1.179)
{Adventure, Isekai} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.900, supp: 0.318, lift: 1.159, conv: 2.235)
{LitRPG} -> {Fantasy} (conf: 0.909, supp: 0.353, lift: 1.171, conv: 2.459)
{Adventure} -> {Action} (conf: 0.794, supp: 0.500, lift: 1.174, conv: 1.574)
{Action} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.739, supp: 0.500, lift: 1.174, conv: 1.421)
{Adventure, Fantasy} -> {Action} (conf: 0.800, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.183, conv: 1.618)
{Action} -> {Adventure, Fantasy} (conf: 0.661, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.183, conv: 1.301)
{Action, Fantasy} -> {Adventure} (conf: 0.800, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.271, conv: 1.853)
{Adventure} -> {Action, Fantasy} (conf: 0.710, supp: 0.447, lift: 1.271, conv: 1.523)

Most common sense stuff proves to be true. There are some interesting strong implications too, so you might wanna join the crowd or alternatively try to stand out?


Genre distribution:
View attachment 9793
Remember that this is from a set of size 170. Total number of genres tagged were 1249. So ideally if every tag were to be given equal importance, the average count of tag should be ~40.3 times. Aka at sol and smut-tier.

Removing the inflated, useless genres like fantasy, action and adventure, we get an average of 32 times. So I guess the gender bender to school life part of the chart is what should ideally the case be.

As such I would suggest to slap the 2~3 useless genres + 1~2 from isekai to mature + your actual genre from gb to school life + ~1 from bottom to spice up your story. The limit is 9 genres, this comes out at 5 to 7 genres. Perfect.

@Agentt asked for some more stats on my profile,
"Number of shoujo written by men/number of shounen written by girls?"

Unfortunately it turns out that Shonen and Shoujo do not exist as a genre or tag on sh. I thus went with Seinen and Josei.
For seinen, there were 12 series in trending out of which,

• 3 didnt list their gender
• 1 was female
• 8 were male

For josei there were 2 series in trending,

• 1 was female
• 1 was male

Pfft. Yea good efforts my man. Personally tho i stopped giving a single fuck about the trending page. I ain't motivated enough to consistently churn out chapters every day. I was for a while, then got lazy again.

Anyway, yeah. Admire your passion, at least

 

[K5Rakitan]

This sings to my inner nerd!

 

[greyblob]

I am thinking tracking it for a month and than just slicing for top 9/25/50 for stats

The stuff pickles to ~450 kb per day so no reason to not store everything

Top 25 is good enough imo. Give it a month or so and run the stats again. Maybe even add the reoccurring titles+rankings while you're at it.

There is no weight counted for being successful. You are assuming the #170 has the same weight as #1.

I would say this is less about what stories succeed but more about what an average SH author writes.

But there is. I believe Trending works by giving each story a score of how many engagements it got prior to that day. #170 is not as successful as #1 but it's more successful than #171. I agree limiting the range would give more accurate results, and I'm pretty confident once more data is gathered - a formula of not success but of what's sought after would emerge.

 

[Xeoz]

Why am I seeing my name... Oh my.