Calibre statistics · 8:18am Mar 28th, 2015

I've been a member of this community for over 3 years now, so even though it's a bit late I thought it'd be nice to start keeping track of my fanfiction stats. I use Calibre with the FanFictionDownLoader (FFDL) plugin to keep track and best read stories.

Calibre stats as of 3/28/2015 (pertaining to FiMFiction)
3512 stories with Publisher www.fimfiction.net

Rating
Of the 3512 stories, 1796 have a rating (have been read)
43 stories ranked 5 star (have read multiple times, thought provoking, characters perfectly characterized, perfect length to tell the story)
219 stories ranked 4 star (similar to 5 star but missing 1 important quality)
1055 stories ranked 3 star (average story, enjoyable but no wow factor)
186 stories ranked 2 star (lowest ranking)
293 stories ranked clop (clop that has a story, stories that have clop are ranked above)

Status
Of the 3512 stories:
17 listed as On Hiatus
665 listed as In-Progress
2828 listed as Completed
(This data set may have slight inaccuracies, statuses are only updated both when the story itself is updated and I update the metadata. Since I rarely ping stories that aren't showing up in my feed, an In-Progress story might have finished but I missed the update notifier and have yet to update the ebook.)

Status of Rated
Of the 1796 stories rated:
1748 listed as Completed
47 listed as In-Progress
1 listed as On Hiatus

Word Count
Of the 2828 stories listed as completed:
17 listed as 200k+ words
17 listed as 150k-200k words
50 listed as 100k-150k words
50 listed as 75k-100k words
94 listed as 50k-75k words
64 listed as 40k-50k words
98 listed as 30k-40k words
176 listed as 20k-30k words
453 listed as 10k-20k words
701 listed as 5k-10k words
1108 listed as 5k and under words
Fun fact: Background Pony is the highest at 432,377 words and Just a Dream... is the lowest at 894 words.

Word Count of Rated stories:
Of the 1796 stories listed as Rated:
4 are 200k+ (1 complete, 3 in-progress)
5 are 150k-200k (4 complete, 1 in-progress)
11 are 100k-150k (9 complete, 2 in-progress)
7 are 75k-100k (4 complete, 3 in-progress)
37 are 50k-75k (32 complete, 5 in-progress)
28 are 40k-50k (27 complete, 1 in-progress)
50 are 30k-40k (47 complete, 3 in-progress)
99 are 20k-30k (89 complete, 10 in-progress)
284 are 10k-20k (276 complete, 8 in-progress)
475 are 5k-10k (469 complete, 6 in-progress)
796 are 5k and under (791 complete, 5 in-progress)
Note: 1 ranked story is listed as On-Hiatus and not listed in word count, but it would fall in 5k-10k

There's a lot more ways I could subdivide the data (What's the common word count of stories ranked 5 star?) as well as put author information (Which author has the most rated stories?), not to mention the huge amount of tag information I could grok out (What's the most common tag of the rated stories with word counts of 75k-100k that are complete?). There's just no end to it, so I'll have to figure out what is and isn't useful for posts like these. I avoided author information, mostly as I wasn't sure how to easily aggregate it.

Fun facts:
Total word count of all 3512 stories: 452,156,084
Total word count of all 1796 rated stories: 21,266,190
Average word count of rated stories: 11,841.

Future me, if you're trying to remember how to do total word count for a new post like this, you need to make a catalog and export it to excel. Read this.

Anyway, as I doubt anyone would read this tediousness, this was mostly for my own records. I'd like to try to make update posts about once a month, but we'll see how that goes. This took a fair amount of time away from reading afterall.