in slightly less morose news...

[lirazel]

So snickfic did this, and I thought it looked like fun. Unfortunately, unlike her I don't have stats from my lj, because I suspect those would skew heavily towards my Buffy/Spike fic. However, here are the stats on my 10 most-hit fics at AO3.

title	hits	comments	kudos	fandom	word count	notes
how the heart approaches what it yearns	1414	9	46	Downton Abbey	909	Yuletide Madness
Of Ill-Advised Imprints and Rather Fetching Ewok Queens	1304	41	4	Dollhouse	5494	Yuletide
they that go down to the sea in ships	492	20	55	the Witch of Blackbird Pond	3680	Yuletide
and i said "who am i to blow against the wind?"	434	2	13	Downton Abbey	864	Yuletide Madness
May the Moon and Sunlight Seem	420	4	17	Harry Potter	2125
The Sun If by Night, the Moon If by Day	373	5	23	Ladyhawke	1662	Yuletide
Requiem	358	3	1	SPN, FNL, BtVS, FF, HP, and Heroes	3944	crossover*
Commas and Ampersands	342	1	8	Gilmore Girls	3235
Basiare	322	2	3	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	3998
Afterglow	286	2	1	Chronicles of Narnia	708

*I say crossover, but none of these characters interact with any fandom but their own. It's basically a collection of different stories built around one theme (blame May).

All of these fics, with the exception of "they that go down to the sea in ships" were posted before kudos were introduced, so it's not surprising that it has by far the most amount of kudos.

What have I learned? that Yuletide and Downton Abbey are sure ways of getting hits, and that nobody's reading my Buffyverse fic over there. Interesting! I'm pretty sure the reason "Requiem" is as high as it is is because it's archived under 6 separate fandoms, so it's six times more likely to get hits. All of my Yuletide fics are in that top-10, which doesn't surprise me. And I'm 90% sure that "May the Moon and Sunlight Seem" got recced somewhere fairly recently, because I saw like three comments pop up on it all around teh same time. So recs really do make a difference!