User Stats Design v1.0
This is related to a post on the Archive of our Own called Email changes and USER STATS!
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We’re launching user stats as an ‘alpha’ feature, so we can get the basic functionality out there and then make changes based on user feedback. We wanted to give you all a sneak peek of what’s planned so you can give us a first round of feedback and ask any questions. So, without further ado:
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The alpha version of the user statistics page will show you the total number of subscribers, hits, comments, kudos, and bookmarks to your works. It will also include a nifty little graph showing the top five works by hits, kudos, comments or bookmarks. The graph will be created using Google’s chartmaking package, which enables us to create a shiny interactive chart (it turns to a static image if you’ve disabled scripts). Google doesn’t get any of your personal data – only titles of works and the number of hits/comments/kudos/bookmarks. (The chart is generated when you load the page on the AO3, so the data is only passed to Google then, and it is only kept on their servers for three weeks.)
The statistics page will also include individual stats for all works, which you can group by fandom or view ‘flat’ so that the works are sorted by whatever you’ve selected in the list options at the top (Date posted, Number of kudos, etc) but not grouped further. (If you can think of a good name for this, then do let us know!) For each work, you’ll be able to see the number of hits, kudos, comments and bookmarks. You’ll also be able to see the last ‘referrer’ – that is, if someone finds your work through a link somewhere else, then you’ll be able to see what link they came from. (This won’t store any other information about the users – for example, you won’t be able to see who got there via that link.) And, in a future version of the page, you’ll be able to see how many times your work was downloaded. (People ask us for this a LOT!)
The new stats features will allow you to see how many subscribers you have, and how many subscribers each work has. It won’t tell you who has subscribed to you – this information will remain private to the subscribers (so if you’re sekritly subscribing to your arch-enemy’s WIP because it’s just too good to miss, your secret is safe with us!)
- Example line of text that could become a question... and maybe one day when it's all grown up it will be the FAQ
- Once we have some items in this section we will start prioritising them.
- The Coder team is made up of (amazing, dedicated!) volunteers so please bear in mind that while improvements are possible (and desired) they may take time
- sum of all the word counts for all the works
- total word count by fandom
- total word count by year (for end-of-year memes)
- average word count by number of works
- the number of bookmarks and comments as actual links to the comments area and bookmarks page, resp.
- Referral links +6
- Ability to set the frequency of batched emails e.g. Once a day for Subscriptions instead of once an hour
- not interested in feeding google and thus won't be using the stats page