Oh noes! A highly unrigorous look at essentially incomparable numbers.

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Meme of the day: Find your stories on an archive that does hit counting. Look at the top 10 and observe any patterns. firefly124 did this and I found the exercise interesting, though the patterns I noticed are different from hers because my writing habits are quite different. I'm essentially mono-fannish, for instance. Anyway, here are my AO3 & FF.net top tens.
title ao3 hits ao3 comments kudos bookmarks ff.net hits favs reviews wordcount notes Dust on his hands from the sky 269 1 1 4 7640 33 13 25161 Giles/Xander The Wight 258 0 7 7 612 15 2 15127 Giles/Xander Dreams & Memory (Art of Fugue mix) 229 5 1 0 n/a n/a n/a 2094 gen, Dr Who, Remix 2010 Breaking Glass 224 0 2 0 n/a n/a n/a 9817 Giles/Ethan Arms and the Man 219 1 13 6 7154 22 16 47998 Giles/Buffy Professor G's Uncanny Scoobies #1 165 1 7 2 954 21 3 11853 Giles/Xander The Santa Ana Winds 161 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 2424 Giles/Buffy Helios Hyperion 149 0 2 0 4240 14 7 4121 Giles/Buffy Sparks 143 0 0 0 1253 15 3 4250 Giles/Xander Thusia 136 0 1 1 n/a n/a n/a 20246 Giles/Buffy
"The Santa Ana Winds" is up on FF.net but it's part of the Helios Hyperion series so its hits are counted there instead. Some stories, like “Thusia”, I chose not to put up on FF.net for content reasons. Others, like the Dr Who remix, I just forgot to put up there. FF.net has very different reading tastes, however. For contrast, the FF.net top 10:

1. Dust on his hands from the sky (7644 hits)
2. Arms and the Man
3. The Adventure of the Displaced Watcher
4. Legacies
5. Breathing
6. Helios Hyperion
7. The Elevator Problem
8. Cloud Animals
9. Reconnection
10. Watcher’s Child (3071 hits)

Top ten from my own fic archive:

1. Blackmail (kinky BG) (1858)
2. Four Nights and a Revelation (Core 4) (1717)
3. Liegeman (aka Blackmail part 3) (1711)
4. Tradition & Protocol (angsty BG) (1553)
5. Dust on his hands from the sky (1501)
6. Please (unfinished T&P short) (1330)
7. Polestar (aka Blackmail part 2) (1277)
8. Giles Makes Good (Core 4 story G/X followup) (1246)
9. Breathing (romantic BG) (1201)
10. Apples, Oranges, and Pears (GX) (1183)

Conclusions:

• I am an obscure & unread fanfic writer.
• Nobody is reading on AO3. FF.net has an order of magnitude more traffic. Hell, my static website has more traffic.
• Remix can get an obscure 2nd Doctor gen story some readers, but it can't get a Buffyverse remix readers (that was one of my least-read stories).
• FF.net readers are as averse to comments as AO3 readers. They seem slightly more likely to favorite, aka leave kudos.
• AO3 reads more slash.
• FF.net & my archive readers prefer Giles/Buffy.
• Everybody likes Giles/Xander angst.
• I should post more stuff on AO3 just because it's a stable archive, even though nobody is reading. Such as "The Elevator Problem" and the kinky Giles/Buffy.