Can any one explain how this works. And is it good if it increases
What is your collection to views ratio?
Just calculated mine.It's been 10 days since I began writing for first time. I its around 188
Arkinslize Yes, I noticed when the updates are regular, there are more collections, although there are not very many views. Well, the truth is I keep statistics for no more than 25 days.
70K vieuws
325 Collections
Ratio : 215
You can all help this ratio get better.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/15224384306577105/Mech-Domination
Let me be shameless.
2900 views/16 collections => 182
Ehm. Should I offer my terrible ratios or not? Hah, why not. :p
Start of this new week:
334K views /1390 collections / 15 PS
240:1 - Active updates since Jan 21 after 4-month hiatus
148K views / 306 collections / 1 PS
483:1 - Not updated for >4 months hiatus
195k views / 155 collections / 0 PS
1258:1 - No longer is updated on Webnovel for several months, and since then, this ratio has shot back up the thousands LOL
Chryiss Those are numbers for the hobbyist.
Epic awfulness to follow.
107k reads, 6 (six) collections including myself.
That makes a brutal 17.8K:1
Wonder who popped that las collection. I was above 20k:1 a mere month ago :)
StenDuring Yup haha!
And the last stat was after a week or so of views increasing by 2k each day for some odd reason or glitch. It used to be 170k something before that jolt lol. Still a bad ratio regardless of the ghost readers~
And you’re still around! Haven’t see you in some time, doing well?
Yep. Running out of buffer for my main but otherwise just fine. That one is at around 1000:1 and going steady there btw.
Chryiss 334K views /1390 collections / 15 PS
240:1 - Active updates since Jan 21 after 4-month hiatus
Waah! 1390 collections :eyes: That's brilliant!
I'm barely crawling to 200. It's like when you watch the clock hand tick slooowly and annoyingly to the next number and it takes foreeeeever. That's my collection add traction.
Trust me to write gay niche :pensive: I can't help it. I want to give my men a fighting chance for love. :smile_cat: Woah. I'm going down an off topic path here. :flushed:
Ironically, my views are clocking up the numbers faster than the adds. I suspect there's a lot of curious cats taking a peek. Or maybe more spambots catching on to my metadata.
StenDuring 107k reads, 6 (six) collections including myself.
Should I make it lucky 7? :smile_cat:
Hahaha :D
It's a sequel so I'm not entirely surprised retention is bad. The first book even comes with a warning I only wrote two out of the planned three books and have no plans to write the third.
Comparing book one and two is kind of interesting as well.
Book one: 208k views : 25 collections.
Book two: 107k views and 6 collections.
That's a fifty percent drop in views and 75 percent drop in collections.
StenDuring wowzers. :flushed: The difference of the two is really different.
StenDuring and the number of words and chapters in each book?
That is, the second book has fewer views? for what period of time is there statistics?
Eh, if the sequel had more views I'd be seriously worried.
Anyway, book one is some 130k words with the second one at around 110k. Give or take a few thousand each.
I dumped them here one chunk daily for a few months. There isn't all that much time between them in other words. After all we're talking two book I wrote 2003 - 2005. It's basically just an upload of an old work, so I never bothered even pretending to market them here.
120 and 90 "chapters" respectively. That's webnovel chunks and not real chapters. By any proper definition of chapter I think it's 40 and 30 respectively. Well, or something like that anyway.
The "chapter" problem is even more visible for my main. It's really 15 chapters per volume, but here I'm publishing it at almost 70 per volume.
I guess if you have very short chapters you'll get lots of views but a rotten number of collection. Publish 5k long chapters on webnovel and you'll probably end up with piss poor views numbers but a really nice views per collection ratio. Noone's gonna bother clicking into chapter two unless they're already really interested in the story.
StenDuring Thank you for sharing such interesting information. The optimal number of words in the chapter I count from 750 to 1200 words. Bonus chapters 1550-2200 words. It’s easier to read.
If I am very interested in the translation work and there will be 5500 words in the chapter, I will probably read on, but if this is the original work I will probably stop looking at the first thousand words, regardless of good English.
XeRey Welcome! And those are pretty good for a new novel and writer to this site. Webnovel honestly doesn’t have the best system for exposing new novels, so any new collection you receive early on is significant. Just keep writing consistently, that’s the best way to grow. Promoting your story helps as long as it’s not spammy, but the onus definitely falls on you unless your story caters to popular fan service or story types. Don’t suggest that though. Just you do you.
4 days later
1 collection and 1.300 views this is just sad I can't make anyone stay, just like in real life kkk
Chryiss 3 chapters. I plan around 60 for part one and then part two. I translate my own work, which I finished long ago so I can update frequently.
It is a fantasy novel about a liberated slave girl and a prince.
But because It's a slowburn (Prince gets friendzoned 2 times lol) I'm afraid I'll never hit it big.
But I keep translating anyway, it's fun