bloodyWriter
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So… I had an hour time and needed sample data for a similar project and I already had the infrastructure up and running, so I thought of crawling ScribbleHub and analyse what I found.
First, to give you an idea what´s possible, a picture of my novel.
Everything marked was useless or impossible to import. (With impossible, I mean that I didn’t want to or had no use)
Anyway, that’s enough technical things for today. I have everything else of every novel on this site and the results were quite interesting.
There are 4850 novels on this side, although I found some that I wouldn’t really call a novel, for several reasons.
One for example is that 15% of every novel has only one chapter. ONE!
That’s more than zero, but less than a novel should have.
Another sad news is that 75% of novels aren’t updated at all. They have 0 chapters/week and although I don’t know how this is counted, it´s still a pretty large percentage.
On the other hand, we have 2967 authors, so 1,6 books/author isn’t too bad. With one author having written 48(!) novels with around 17000 words average. That’s a feat…
Here are some other things that I dug out. If you look closely, you see that someone got -1 readers…
I thought my program broke, but here he is:
Not gonna lie, I´m envious.
Another interesting candidate was this guy:
One word. 40 Views. That’s a pretty good ratio! (It`s a comic, but I have another question... where is the word??)
Now, towards the tags!
The most popular tag combo is action + adventure + fantasy, counted by the times this combo was there.
Honestly, I only bothered with one tag and compared it to others.
Onwards to the topic of why everyone clicked this: Smut.
There are only 438 smut stories with 10,376 chapters in total out there! I thought it was higher, but I was proven wrong…
On the other hand smut stories have 23,104,457 views in total. That’s a large number, but in comparison to the 110,749,938 views of all novels, it´s not too much. Right? Right?
For comparison, there are 2857 action stories with 61,660 chappies. That’s a lot higher! And they even generate 74,391,240 views in total, so it´s even higher!
Why are there so many smut stories on the trending page then??
It´s simple. They are good. At least, if we go by view per chapter.
Per chapter they get 2226 views while my lovely action tag gets only 1206.
In comparison, the average chapter gets 1181 views, although I suspect that this number is heavily screwed by some novels as I was only able to get the average by tags and not the median. That’s about 1600 for all novels by the way.
Some honorable mentions in the end:
World Keeper with the most chapters, Favourites, Reviews and Views.
The Reincarnated Vampire Just Wants To Enjoy Her New Life (since when are these titles so long???) with 4061 readers
and
Azarinth Healer with 1,320,000 words!
I´m open for other ideas about what I can do with all this data, but don’t expect too muchas I´m scrapping my novel and write smut now, hopefully I can beat the one with -1 readers.
First, to give you an idea what´s possible, a picture of my novel.
Everything marked was useless or impossible to import. (With impossible, I mean that I didn’t want to or had no use)
Anyway, that’s enough technical things for today. I have everything else of every novel on this site and the results were quite interesting.
There are 4850 novels on this side, although I found some that I wouldn’t really call a novel, for several reasons.
One for example is that 15% of every novel has only one chapter. ONE!
That’s more than zero, but less than a novel should have.
Another sad news is that 75% of novels aren’t updated at all. They have 0 chapters/week and although I don’t know how this is counted, it´s still a pretty large percentage.
On the other hand, we have 2967 authors, so 1,6 books/author isn’t too bad. With one author having written 48(!) novels with around 17000 words average. That’s a feat…
Here are some other things that I dug out. If you look closely, you see that someone got -1 readers…
I thought my program broke, but here he is:
Not gonna lie, I´m envious.
Another interesting candidate was this guy:
One word. 40 Views. That’s a pretty good ratio! (It`s a comic, but I have another question... where is the word??)
Now, towards the tags!
The most popular tag combo is action + adventure + fantasy, counted by the times this combo was there.
Honestly, I only bothered with one tag and compared it to others.
Onwards to the topic of why everyone clicked this: Smut.
There are only 438 smut stories with 10,376 chapters in total out there! I thought it was higher, but I was proven wrong…
On the other hand smut stories have 23,104,457 views in total. That’s a large number, but in comparison to the 110,749,938 views of all novels, it´s not too much. Right? Right?
For comparison, there are 2857 action stories with 61,660 chappies. That’s a lot higher! And they even generate 74,391,240 views in total, so it´s even higher!
Why are there so many smut stories on the trending page then??
It´s simple. They are good. At least, if we go by view per chapter.
Per chapter they get 2226 views while my lovely action tag gets only 1206.
In comparison, the average chapter gets 1181 views, although I suspect that this number is heavily screwed by some novels as I was only able to get the average by tags and not the median. That’s about 1600 for all novels by the way.
Some honorable mentions in the end:
World Keeper with the most chapters, Favourites, Reviews and Views.
The Reincarnated Vampire Just Wants To Enjoy Her New Life (since when are these titles so long???) with 4061 readers
and
Azarinth Healer with 1,320,000 words!
I´m open for other ideas about what I can do with all this data, but don’t expect too much
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