01 Jan 2011
by Nikkiin misc Tags: end of year wrapup, stats
Since I’m on a statistics kick and 2010 has officially ended, here’s some silly data about this site I’ve pulled from google analytics. The search term part is my favourite.
| Most popular subsite |
blog |
405 pageviews |
| Most popular page |
Fangirl |
311 pageviews |
| Best day for visitors |
Dec. 12 |
Helen’s Heart was posted. |
| Best day for pageviews |
Apr. 14 |
My final project for my art class. |
Top Ten Search Terms
- pauli exclusion principle example
- castle beckett fanfiction
- castle fanfic
- castle fic
- kate beckett red dress
- castle beckett fanfic
- example of pauli exclusion principle
- castle beckett
- fanfic castle
- castle and beckett fanfiction
01 Jan 2011
by Nikkiin misc, writing Tags: fanfiction.net, numbers, reflections of an ex-cashier, stats
It’s strange, but I’ve never really associated the hit count on my FF.Net stats page to people. I’m not sure why, but the numbers were just numbers to me. Actually, it probably goes back to my stint as a cashier – I always got comments about how I managed to deal with such a large quantity of money day in, day out. As in, what’s it like to be so close to a couple of grand all day. It’s pretty obvious that the people asking never worked with cash – for one, on an eight hour shift, I’d probably touch fifty grand in bills – way more than a ‘couple of grand’ and, for two, the money isn’t money. It was just bits of paper that went in my till. Sometimes it was really disgusting bits of paper (oh god money should not come out of underwear), but paper all the same. It wasn’t mine, even if there was more cash in my till than I’d make in a year. I’ve just sorta blocked out large numbers and shoved it in the ‘meh, whatever, you can’t have it anyway’ folder of my brain.
Until today. For some reason, I just realised that the 2187 hits for What Kate Wrote meant that people have clicked into the fic 2187 times (unless FF.Net is reporting the stats wrong again, in which case there are more views). I highly doubt, however, that 2187 people have read the fic, though. FF.Net isn’t kind enough to give statistics on how long people stay on a page so I can’t really calculate the total number of readers. I can’t even give a wild estimate, because, while I would read the stuff I wrote, I’m pretty biased. That, and I would never post anything of a subpar quality, hence the reason why I’m still sitting on a Sanctuary fic that needs a proper ending.
Nevertheless, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that, over the past seven (nearing eight) years (holy fuck eight years?! That’s a third of my life!) of posting fic to FF.Net, I’ve had at least five thousand people reading my fic.
Five. Thousand.
That’s enough to make a city in Saskatchewan.
That’s half of the number of enrolled students at the University of Regina.
In reflection… that’s actually a rather large number of people.
Huh.
For more statistics, 1.52% of the hits on my fic result in reviews. As the frequency of reviews drops far more rapidly than the hits, I’m disqualifying the oldest of the new fic (the Eleventh Hour fic that brought me out of retirement) from the rest of the analysis since it is at least twice as old as the rest of the fics. If I included it, it’d have the lowest review/hit percentage at 0.61%. With out it, my most viewed fic, the sorta smutty (what? Most of the smut I’ve read has pages and pages of sex and, really, it’s actually kinda boring) What Kate Wrote has my worst percentage at 0.71%. Apparently people don’t like to own up to the fact that they’re reading smut. My best is my least reviewed (Pancakes) at 2.48%, but that’s really fucking biased since all three reviewers are my friends. So, yeah, how about we ignore that and move to the next best percentage, my Sanctuary fic Helen’s Heart at 2.01% (and 4 reviews).
I’m really not sure what these numbers mean and, honestly, they can’t mean anything – I only have six data points and, well, you can’t infer anything from six samples. The solution is clear – I must keep writing fic to collect data and then do something with it. God knows what, but I’m sure I’ll come up with some use.
Is writing fic for numbers a stupid reason? Probably. But, hey, this isn’t a narcissistic reason – I couldn’t give a crap if anyone reads or reviews my fic; it’s all about the writing and the back pats are just the icing – so I suppose that puts me above the rest of the number hungry crowd. I just like numbers because numbers are pretty.
Pretty, pretty numbers.
23 Feb 2010
by Nikkiin misc, tv Tags: art, castle, contest, criminal minds, deviantart, experiment
As some of you (well, probably all ten of you. Yes, I apparently have ten people reading my blog. That is nine more than I had expected) are probably aware, I’m a bit of a masochist in regards to my creative ventures. As you’re probably also aware, I can afford to – humble I am not. I mean, christ, you’re reading the words of the girl who wrote crack!fic for the lawls and to piss off a fandom. Sadly, I (mostly) failed. I got one person crazy pissed at me, but she was a superfan of my other fics. Yes, I was a fifteen year old writing crappy Artemis Fowl fanfics and I had superfans. Superfans that stalked me for years. Don’t ask me to explain it – I don’t get it myself. Travis says it’s because I’m better at writing than I give myself credit for. I, personally, attribute it to my ability to write for my audience… since my audience is myself and apparently there are people like me in the world. That, and my rarely tapped ability to be charming.
So, yeah, ego. An ego that was stroked for years due to being the one artist and writer in one group of friends and then further fueled by the interwebs. Needless to say, I’m an excellent candidate for experimenting on creative groups – I have more interest in the numbers and what they represent than how they reflect on my own work. Hence my current experiment on the Castle fandom regarding review to read ratios, speed of reading and quality of reviews between FF.Net and the castle_fic LJ comm. I mean, hey, if I’m going to be writing Castle fic like the fantard that I am, I may as well get some data out of it.
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20 Feb 2010
by Nikkiin misc Tags: dnd, quiz
These tests are A) friggin’ long and B) I keep losing the results and having to retake them… despite the fact that I always am lawful neutral (half)elf mage/wizard.
So, yeah, here is my results and now I will never have to take one of these tests again. Oh, yeah, the test in question? This one.
Lawful Neutral Elf Wizard (3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength- 10
Dexterity- 14
Constitution- 13
Intelligence- 16
Wisdom- 17
Charisma- 14
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16 Jul 2009
by Nikkiin misc Tags: intro
While I am undoubtedly going to talk a lot about tv shows and comics, I’d like to point out ahead of time that this is not a review blog in the traditional sense. Yes, I’m going to be talking about shows and comics and novels and movies and such and such but it’s mostly just me attempting to study these things. I’ll be talking about what I like and dislike from both the perspective of a consumer and someone who is a writer and an artist. This is all just an attempt to get my thoughts into order about what I like about shows, what I dislike about them and what I love to hate (and hate to love) so that I can hopefully avoid making the same mistakes or so I can attempt to capture the charm in my own writing.
Keeping with the trend of doing this for my own benefit, I’ll probably end up posting entries containing excerpts from stories I’m working on or concept art, etc, etc. Knowing me, though, that will rarely happen since I have problems with scanning let along transcribing stuff from my notebooks. I’d scan the notebook entries themselves, but I write them illegibly on purpose so that wouldn’t work.
And, just for variety, I promise to throw in some science-y rants every now and then. And some rants about computers and tech. Yeah, that sounds good too. Oooo, how about I also bitch about society and things that people do that I find stupid? Or the internet in general?
Yeah. It’s my own personal soap box.
But isn’t that what blogs are for?
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