AO3 question, kinda

[marishna]

Every day I get a "kudos" report from AO3, like many of you do as well. Every now and then I'll see a sudden spike in kudos on a fic that's older and doesn't otherwise have a reason for so I like to know where it's been rec'd or why it's suddenly getting hits

Comments

[stormcloude]

Rather than putting the year in the search, I would do an advanced search of the title in quotes plus limit the results to the past week or month (or whatever time frame you think it was recced in).

[giallarhorn]

The problem with spikes in kudos is that it's really hard to trace the source of the spike. Big spikes you can probably attribute to tumblr in a lot of cases, or a sudden random interest in Thing X that is in the fic if it's a rarepair or otherwise unusual fic. But random, low-medium spikes can just as well be someone read the fic, put it on twitter or reddit or emailed their friends about it.

You can probably try to look at it over time by the search term, but that does assume that the people finding it are going through Google and no other means.

[matchboximpala]

I did a little searching around and in 2012 AO3 posted that the next version of stats would include referrers, which would tell you how people got to your posts. But it doesn't look like that ever happened.

[ragnarok_08]

I would do an advanced search of the title, and look in the stats of your fics as well from the past week and month.