Or more accurately: What factors except writing quality make stories popular?

To answer this question, I extracted the metadata from all published stories on fimfiction.net in July 2016. This includes number of views, likes, dislikes and comments, tagged characters and genres, content rating (everyone, teen, mature), status (complete, incomplete, on hiatus, cancelled), date of publishing and last modification, and whether there is a story image.

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Ever since I read Bad Horse's blog posts on some fimfiction.net statistics I wanted to do some analysis myself. So when I noticed that I would reach five million read words here very soon, I thought it was the perfect occasion to finally do it and write a first blog post.

Let's look at some statistics about story titles today.

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