I have 2,740 something views and 8 collections, which gives a ratio of approx 350:1 for a new novel, with like just 9 chapters.
I do not know how these statistics work...It that good for a rookie?

    Funny thing I noticed recently after I updated some of my stories. Except for MWTL, I've lost a few collections for my tree and BTS story. With the latter, I gain some and then lose a couple, but I'm baffled by the former since I updated twice with nice long updates after a month. I guess they didn't like the two chapters? XD

      Chryiss Reader trends can be unpredictable sometimes, since readers themselves can be that way.

      Then there's technical glitches that see books readded. I've had to do that with some of the books I read when the sync goes out of order.

      I'm going to track my stats monthly as this would give me a better indication of reader interest. At the moment, I haven't introduced any new content, so most of my book counts haven't moved. To be expected.

      I'm fretting over the increase of interest in To Like A Man. Surely people can see this is a dropped book and I've even advertised it as such, why so many new adds? This is my fastest mover (which isn't a lot btw).

        And here I come to drop my collection to views ratio.

        Currently I have 1026 collections with 13 chapters. I´m quite satisfied because I have started this novel about ten days ago.

        102000 views and 1026 collections= 99.4 ratio. I´m really happy with that.

          GreatSage_Master1 I know the reason why your ratio is very good.
          When you write popular fan fiction, you gather tons of exposer and fan base, example Broly The Saiyan of Legend got 3 million views with over 7k collections.
          If the author transition into original authentic novels, they will gain tons of views and collections easily with the existing fan base.
          The same thing can be applied to you.
          You already got a very popular fan fiction with over a million views, with that existing fan base, It's not surprising you got a very good ratio with little chapters.
          It's a very smart way of advertisement.

              Enlightened_Being Oof. That makes sense. Maybe I should've waited to upload my serious work of fiction to Webnovel after creating my fan fiction. XD Of course, I wouldn't know that the contest would be held and that the fan fic would be popular. But in that hypothetical, at least I would have had more prewritten chapters to update more than once a week by that time. Meh, we'll see if I ever make another fiction on WN that this strategy works for me and this particular fandom lol.

                Hyowha Sorry, I was asked to create a new one since the old one was taking too long with post loading. Forums couldn't keep up with it. I linked in the original, but didn't really think much else I needed to do.

                Sorry if it felt like an attack, it was trying to keep the thread you started going.

                    Veronica8 It's fine, I am only joking haha.

                    When I opened that thread, I never realized it would gain that much traction, and I don't really feel any emotional connection to it.

                    I was just surprised when I scrolled through the forum amd thought, hey that looks familiar hahaha

                        Hyowha You started a cool topic. It's the best thing we have to keeping a trend. So, a lot of us were keen to keep it going when the original thread started playing up. :grin:

                            I think someone made a short-lived thread on this, but I can't for the life of me find it, so I might as well ask here since it's related to book stats.

                            Reader Demographics --- What country are most of your collections from?

                            I found it interesting because most of mine are from US, but my Big Hit book has a lot of Filipino readers I think because they like k-pop a lot.

                            Since the top three are always from the same countries, I guess the more interesting demographic are the two countries listed afterwards.

                            My World To Live:
                            US 32.7%
                            PH 14.3%
                            IN 7.1%
                            AU 6.1% <---
                            NG 4.1% <---
                            OTHER 35.7%

                            RE: Life as a Tree
                            US 36.0%
                            PH 11.4%
                            IN 7.9%
                            BR 4.4% <---
                            IL 4.4% <---
                            OTHER 35.9%

                            Big Hit's New Girl Group
                            PH 40.2%
                            US 16.4%
                            IN 12.1%
                            MY 8.2% <---
                            ID 7.2% <---
                            OTHER 15.9%

                            It makes me wonder if that's the reason (other than being a fan fiction in a contest) why my last book was more successful than my first two which have more similar collection numbers and growth along with demographics. I catered to the largest demographic audience on here; thus, I got more collections?

                              Chryiss Yeah. I remember that thread. Probably buried deep amongst all that "yes.com" spam.

                              All my works are predominately read out of the PH & US. Especially Zaldizko. From the piddly amount of collections remaining on that story, I can safely say that 85% of the story is read from PH readers and the rest are classified as Others :sob:

                              Besides the procrastination NPop story, I haven't been able to write properly at all. The collection drop really bothered my psyche for all other stories. So, been doing cover art recently. Playing around with Daz and modding Famine and the boys. I have a lovey-dovey cover version of Famine and Leinard I'm making (haven't uploaded anywhere yet). I'll probably keep this one off the radar. Just nice to image the men together.

                                GreatSage_Master1 Sensei! I bow to your greatness. Seriously, fan fiction is the toughest kind of story to write hands down. Anyone who can pull of quality fan fiction is friggen genius. I've tried my hand at it, crashed and burned.

                                I agree Enlightened_Being pretty cool strategy and result.

                                    Haven't done this for a while. Interest and reads has gone from bad to disaster. Not encouraging, but oh well. The risks of being different and niche. Right now, the trends are not in my favour.

                                    Fourth Zaldizko = 1043:1 Hoping people like cheesy cover.
                                    Zaldizko = 1520:1 :sob: I give up on this one. Flop at the box office.
                                    Sunflower = 412:1
                                    Reborn = 795:1 FIrst time it has ever reached below 1K. Taken almost half a year.
                                    Dragonieth = 226:1 The only worthy contender.

                                    I go drown my sorrows in making boys love covers now.

                                    My collections came back, minus a few that I take for genuine drops.

                                    Zaldizko is now 347:1.

                                    Phew! I have no idea how that happened. It definitely was a glitch, maybe when I cleared my cache, this fixed it. idk.

                                    At another story sharing site, I lost all my followers bar 2. :pensive: I'm being pranked by the universe. Definitely.

                                    Is this some cultivation test that great authors go through? :pray: I hope it is.

                                    8 days later

                                    Hmm. :thinking: I wonder if this thread is still relevant now that we have the new wireframe dashboards.
                                    I'm old school. Whilst bugs are still being eradicated, I'll still use.

                                    TMS = 425:1
                                    Reborn = 761:1
                                    Zaldizko = 353:1
                                    4th Zaldizko = 1.150K despite being a poor player here, I'll still bank my focus on self-pub this one next month.
                                    Dragonieth = 227:1

                                      May1st hell yeah. In ratio terms, 292:1 so, on every 292 view/read the story was added to a library for later or offline reading. Throwing out the ratio. Having 283K views with near 1K collections is brilliant. It means your story is interesting readers and actively being read.

                                      Nice work. :grin:

                                          Hm, it's been some time. Guess I'll post mine too in the wake of this new, glitchy Inkstone.

                                          Big Hit's New Girl Group: I'm a K-Pop Star?!
                                          166K views, 1008 collections = 164:1

                                          RE: Life as a Tree
                                          61K views, 124 collections = 492:1

                                          Canaan: My World To Live
                                          75K views, 105 collections = 714:1

                                          The last two novels have been left in the dust with worsening ratios. Oh wells~

                                            Veronica8 TMS = 425:1
                                            Reborn = 761:1
                                            Zaldizko = 353:1
                                            4th Zaldizko = 1.150K despite being a poor player here, I'll still bank my focus on self-pub this one next month.
                                            Dragonieth = 227:1

                                            Wowsers. I don't know if it's because of all the background work going in Inkstone. My collection adds keep going up and down like rabbits.

                                            Maybe peeps didn't like my new chapters. :eyes: Always strange when you update work and collection drops.
                                            Oh, well, such is life. I'm expecting a few more collection drops since I'm terrible for updates. It's impossible for me to keep a regular schedule.

                                            TMS = 428:1
                                            Reborn = 758:1
                                            Zaldizko = 354:1
                                            4th Zaldizko = 1.14K:1
                                            Dragonieth = 232:1

                                            I think updates is the least of my problems. I've worked out that my stories are too out there for the average reader. Might need to stick with my contemporary romances.

                                            On that note. The book that baffles me.

                                            To Like A Man = 352:1

                                            Been a couple of months since I dropped. I was expecting the collections to return to 0, but they keep going up, making the ratio consistent. :sob: I feel guilty. I can't cave and be fickle. Must stick to vision to keep me on the narrow writer's path. Otherwise, I'll go wonky and off the rails (more so than I already am).

                                                With the new dashboard, I wonder if the better stats to follow would actually be valid reads and minutes. If we could see how many people read in a week, that would be good too. Or a percentage of the collections who actually read. But week by week can also provide a lot of zeros for small fics, so it’s not the best in that regard.

                                                  Chryiss yeah. Doesn't do that much for me since I don't update regularly.

                                                      GreatSage_Master1 then what about the time constraint. Even if we start a novel and didn't get to update regularly. The released chapters were still there for new readers. does it make a difference in some way?

                                                          Here is mine now.

                                                          The Hunter Academy: 265k views and 1.966 collections = 134:1

                                                          Rebor in DxD with Fate System: 7.730 collections and 1.8 millions = 232:1

                                                            Hmm. Now that copy/paste protection is in place, I wonder if that will start to make our view counts more realistic?

                                                            Added another chapter today after eating and sleeping. Will go back to rest and recoup this budding cold. The nice surprise was that for whatever strange reason, my other two stories have slowly been gaining collections, just 1 or 2 a day. But after a long stagnant period, that's big for me. XD

                                                            Big Hit's New Girl Group: I'm a K-Pop Star?!
                                                            181K/1042 = 173:1

                                                            RE: Life as a Tree
                                                            67K/141 = 475:1

                                                            Canaan: My World To Live
                                                            79K/110 = 718:1

                                                            The tree story even slightly improved its ratio! But that's because I haven't updated for two weeks yet again cough. On the other hand, MWTL gets a lot more "updates" because I'm slowly catching it up to where RR already is in the story. One of these days I need a mass release on my poor tree story that gets no love in terms of updates. :joy: :sob:

                                                            Haah, I actually just wanna finish this Big Hit story already. :eyes: I'm not going to rush it to the end, but I'm not tempted by any means to lengthen it just because it's my more popular one by a long shot. I think whether or not I reached any better level of success on this site will depend on how my fourth novel goes.... If it flops like the other two then I know for sure that having one more popular fic doesn't help the rest lol. (I do suspect that some of my readers from the fanfic did peek at my other two stories though...)

                                                            Veronica8 TMS = 428:1
                                                            Reborn = 758:1
                                                            Zaldizko = 354:1
                                                            4th Zaldizko = 1.14K:1
                                                            Dragonieth = 232:1

                                                            TMS = 432:1
                                                            Reborn = 706:1
                                                            Zaldizko = 357:1
                                                            4th Zaldizko = 1.25K:1
                                                            Dragonieth = 239:1

                                                            It's confirmed. My books aren't popular with readers :laughing: Maybe I should've stuck with cliche and gone all out with To Like A Man since this book is the only one gaining steady collections where all others are loosing them. Although Reborn surprised me.

                                                            Then again, I would've been bothered by not finishing what I started with Seriphyn Knight Chronicles. I don't have another decade to waste on this series. Before I leave this earth, I'd like to have the entire series on shop bookshelves digital/physical. Of course, this means I'll be doing the self publishing route since doubt I'd see this series being picked up by a traditional publisher. Webnovel contract offer was an anomaly.

                                                            I've added a few new chapters to The Fourth Zaldizko as this book is my focus. Unfortunately, that's put a hold on the other in progress ones as I realised I'm a one-at-a-time person. I can't multi-task well when it comes to books.

                                                            I revised the format for Zaldizko chapters "All In Love", "All in War" and "The Zaldizko Prophecy" since these were tricky chapters for readers and received some feedback on this. Hopefully, it reads better.

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