Yearly AO3 stats meme

[john_amend_all]

Memed from thisbluespirit: List your top ten AO3 works by various metrics.

AO3 have changed their HTML since last year, and I've had to tweak my AO3 stats downloader to compensate. The current version is 2.1.

(For comparison: Stats from 2015 and 2014)

Top 10 by Hit Count

1. Persistence (Austen; Anne Elliot / Frederick Wentworth; 8209 words) [2073]
2. Noblesse Oblige (Austen; Elizabeth Bennet / Fitzwilliam Darcy; 147 words) [1399]
3. Mimic (Sapphire & Steel / Look & Read; Sapphire, Steel; 1776 words) [1040]
4. Vox et Praeterea Mysteria (Doctor Who; Ace / Oswin; 3730 words) [776]
5. Double the Trouble (Doctor Who; Amy / Amy; 1121 words) [680]
6. The Murder of Cardinal Tosca (Sherlock / Monty Python; Sherlock, John, Sarah, Ximinez; 653 words) [650]
7. The Crawford Ritual (Doctor Who / Austen; Liz Shaw, Mary Crawford; 410 words) [608]
8. Gamesmanship (Doctor Who / The Culture; Two, Jamie, Romana I; 518 words) [573]
9. 22 Pairs (Doctor Who; multiple pairings; 2400 words) [572]
10. 24 Pairs (Doctor Who; multiple pairings; 2500 words) [553]

Proof the the hit count on Mimic was caused by some sort of fault: since last year, its count has increased by all of 16 hits. If Mimic is excluded, the next highest on the list is Ac Velut in Somnis (Doctor Who / Knightmare; Ten, Rose, Treguard, Majida, etc; 30179 words) [504]

New entries this year were Double the Trouble and Gamesmanship. From which I can only deduce that AO3 is full of Amy/Amy shippers and Culturniks.

As usual, I used my download tool to pull down the raw figures, and did a 'hits per day' sort. Since this is inclined to bias in favour of recent works, I omitted my most recent 20 works to get:

1. Persistence [2.94]
2. Double the Trouble [1.43]
3. Noblesse Oblige [1.01]
4. Mimic [0.78]
5. The Crawford Ritual [0.73]
6. In Your Dreams [1.5]
7. The Blotched Soldier (Doctor Who / Sherlock; Clara / Lucie; 12957 words) [0.70]
8. Vox et Praeterea Mysteria [0.68]
9. Unconventional Courtship ficlets (Doctor Who / Babylon 5 / Austen / Red Dwarf; Multiple; 1251 words) [0.61]
10. Hearts' Desire [0.56]

I think my comments from last year about keeping one's hit rates up by posting in instalments, or including Rose in the fic, still hold good. Though all the rates have declined to some extent.

Top 10 by Kudos

1. Persistence [93]
2. Vox et Praeterea Mysteria [64]
3. Noblesse Oblige [42]
4. 22 Pairs [28]
5. A Spy Unmasked (Doctor Who / RPF; David Attenborough, Kate Stewart, Frobisher; 778 words) [25]
6. Legman (Miss Marple / Red Dwarf; Jane Marple, Ace Rimmer; 515 words) [24]
7. Outside Context [23]
8. Restitution (Doctor Who; Jamie / Victoria; 1011 words) [23]
9. 24 Pairs [22]
10. The Problem of Darley Place (Sherlock Holmes/Miss Marple; Holmes, Watson, Jane Marple; 2837 words) [22]

Compared to last year, there's a big jump up for A Spy Unmasked (which kind people have recced). Other than that, The Problem of Darley Place has jumped into the top 10.

I also did kudos / hit (aka, 'Satisfied Customers'). As usual, I omitted works posted this year.

1. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (AAL!; Georgie, Simms; 574 words) [20.8%]
2. Pillion (Doctor Who; Eight, Grace; 100 words) [17.5%]
3. The Squires' Tale (Doctor Who / Girl Genius; Ace, Shou Yuing, Ancelyn, Mordred; 1088 words) [17.4%]
4. Love a Tomb (Doctor Who; Amy, River; 1000 words) [15.9%]
5. Legman [14.73%]
6. A Sticki Situation (Doctor Who; Steven / Vicki; 1171 words) [13.8%]
7. Wolf (Doctor Who; Polly / Ben; 122 words) [13.9%]
8. Not The Way To Do It (Doctor Who; Polly / Ben; 448 words) [13.6%]
9. Historical Wrack (The Help and Comfort Remix) (Doctor Who; Seven, Ace; 2258 words)[13.4%]
10. The Blockage (Doctor Who; Lucie, Jackie; 1962 words) [12.9%]

As usual, this pulls out a few works in small fandoms or with rare pairings; this year Polly/Ben seems to be Where It's At. The top entry (Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall) is only there because of a tiny hit count; it's also in my four least-trafficked fics.

Top 10 by Comments

I used the AO3 'Statistics' page to sort by comment threads rather than comments.

1. Vox et Praeterea Mysteria [9]
2. Persistence [7]
3. Dimension Breach [7]
4. Outside Context [5]
5. Works Outing [5]
6. The Blotched Soldier [4]
7. Interrupted Night [5]
8. The Way We Spy [4]
9. Unknown Unknown [4]
10. The Murder of Cardinal Tosca [4]

This is identical to last year's except for the entry of The Blotched Soldier bumping the count up to 10. There are a couple more fics with 4 comment threads: A Spy Unmasked and Genius and Geniality.

Top 7 by Bookmarks

Last year I only included fics with 3 or more bookmarks because it wasn't possible to get a meaningful ordering for 2 or fewer. This year the cutoff is 4 or more bookmarks, for the same reason.

1. Vox et Praeterea Mysteria [20]
2. Persistence [12]
3. Noblesse Oblige [5]
4. Restitution [4]
5. The Murder of Cardinal Tosca [4]
6. Murder at the Mill [4]
7. A Spy Unmasked [4]

Most Obscure

The lowest four hit counts, excluding recently-posted works:

1. Family Christmas (Big Finish Doctor Who; Zoe, Jen; 1123 words)
2. Conflict Resolution (Big Finish Doctor Who; Lucie, Karen; 389 words)
3. Hostess (Doctor Who; Vicki, Bennett; 2439 words)
4. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall