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UPDATE V3
GreenReaper on SoFurry provided more accurate statistics for InkBunny, and linked me to a new Journal by Fender on FA for new 2014 stats. I have updated accordingly the data, and split parts into new categories thanks to new information provided. I also updated the total FA accounts using an estimation with the difference between new accounts in 2011 and 2014. I had the total accounts for 2012 and new ones for 2014, but neither new nor total accounts for 2013.
The only problem is that Weasyl and SoFurry do not have traffic data readily available, so low estimations were used in place of nothing at all to give an idea of what the traffic could be.
Always open to new data and information! Critiques also welcome too!
UPDATE to v2
Now includes rough traffic data, content, and users. These are all largely estimates even when given by official sources, and were averaged together based on what was available. Official numbers welcome!
For fun, here's VCLs data for what I could find:
Accounts - 4,410
Traffic - 25,223
Content - 598,498
Decided to do something last minute on new years eve. It really could be better organized and formatted, but it will do for now I guess. Namely, the key listed above should either be repeated or the FA content deletion section should be pushed up next to that section.
I may update this later to include some other things. SoFurry has submissions by sexual orientation for example, Weasyl has tags by most common and by most favorited, as well as follows vs submissions for particular artists. VCL has some information as well, but not very much. I can't really figure out how to include them.
Sources for all data come from the following.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13293229/
FA submission map 2014-04-24
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7232474
FA submission map 2012-01-11
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5660204/
FA submission map 2011-04-29
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3782954/
FA submission map 2010-04-29
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1932796/
FA submission map 2009-01-27
https://forums.furaffinity.net/thre.....July-7-2011%29
FA Statistics 2011
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6395579
FA Statistics - 2014
https://graphs.weasyl.com/static/
Weasyl Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014)
https://www.sofurry.com/statistics/
SoFurry Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014, June 2013)
https://inkbunny.net/stats.php
InkBunny Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014)
https://www.sofurry.com/view/804378
InkBunny Additional Statistics
http://statstool.com/
http://www.freewebsitereport.org/
http://www.hypestat.com/
https://www.compete.com/
Traffic Statistics (Previously all used, mostly for Weasyl and SoFurry now)
GreenReaper on SoFurry provided more accurate statistics for InkBunny, and linked me to a new Journal by Fender on FA for new 2014 stats. I have updated accordingly the data, and split parts into new categories thanks to new information provided. I also updated the total FA accounts using an estimation with the difference between new accounts in 2011 and 2014. I had the total accounts for 2012 and new ones for 2014, but neither new nor total accounts for 2013.
The only problem is that Weasyl and SoFurry do not have traffic data readily available, so low estimations were used in place of nothing at all to give an idea of what the traffic could be.
Always open to new data and information! Critiques also welcome too!
UPDATE to v2
Now includes rough traffic data, content, and users. These are all largely estimates even when given by official sources, and were averaged together based on what was available. Official numbers welcome!
For fun, here's VCLs data for what I could find:
Accounts - 4,410
Traffic - 25,223
Content - 598,498
Decided to do something last minute on new years eve. It really could be better organized and formatted, but it will do for now I guess. Namely, the key listed above should either be repeated or the FA content deletion section should be pushed up next to that section.
I may update this later to include some other things. SoFurry has submissions by sexual orientation for example, Weasyl has tags by most common and by most favorited, as well as follows vs submissions for particular artists. VCL has some information as well, but not very much. I can't really figure out how to include them.
Sources for all data come from the following.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13293229/
FA submission map 2014-04-24
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7232474
FA submission map 2012-01-11
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5660204/
FA submission map 2011-04-29
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3782954/
FA submission map 2010-04-29
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1932796/
FA submission map 2009-01-27
https://forums.furaffinity.net/thre.....July-7-2011%29
FA Statistics 2011
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6395579
FA Statistics - 2014
https://graphs.weasyl.com/static/
Weasyl Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014)
https://www.sofurry.com/statistics/
SoFurry Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014, June 2013)
https://inkbunny.net/stats.php
InkBunny Statistics - (Accessed 12-31-2014)
https://www.sofurry.com/view/804378
InkBunny Additional Statistics
http://statstool.com/
http://www.freewebsitereport.org/
http://www.hypestat.com/
https://www.compete.com/
Traffic Statistics (Previously all used, mostly for Weasyl and SoFurry now)
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To be fair, I cut off on trying to do all 100+ tags and merging them together. I really don't feel like trying to "fix" similarities. Plus, Equine could mean legit other species not necessarily horse specific....maybe. I'm not sure because it didn't come up, but it's like how canine means way more than just wolves.
From what I read of InkBunny, it didn't start or have any intentions of being a cub oriented site.
The reputation arose when it was discovered many moderators and founders were involved in that sort of art. The reputation went from there, probably reinforcing it.
Didn't help that most of the influxes to InkBunny were from folks who did do some cub art (not just porn) due to InkBunny having lighter posting rules, right place and right timing, and as an act of solidarity on the part of clean cub artists.
The reputation arose when it was discovered many moderators and founders were involved in that sort of art. The reputation went from there, probably reinforcing it.
Didn't help that most of the influxes to InkBunny were from folks who did do some cub art (not just porn) due to InkBunny having lighter posting rules, right place and right timing, and as an act of solidarity on the part of clean cub artists.
I think a good part of that is due to them originally being Yiffstar, and it just carried over. Can't confirm for sure that it's in any way just because of that, but it's at least a contributor I'm sure.
I have no idea if being one of the few places (originally) dedicated to writing also influenced that.
I have no idea if being one of the few places (originally) dedicated to writing also influenced that.
I'M LEAVING FA FOREVER!
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See you back in a few weeks! :V
I'm kidding but it's so common when it happens it's pretty funny and expected. Granted, FA can't just be complacent in it's position as the largest forever. If quality content can be found elsewhere, people will jump ship if their experiences are better elsewhere too.
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See you back in a few weeks! :V
I'm kidding but it's so common when it happens it's pretty funny and expected. Granted, FA can't just be complacent in it's position as the largest forever. If quality content can be found elsewhere, people will jump ship if their experiences are better elsewhere too.
Interesting shift in user dynamics, the bottom row of information in particular. If I'm reading it right (and given that it's about 2:30 AM here, I may not be), it seems like SoFurry has a lot of accounts that don't post a lot of work, while Weasyl has a small number of relatively prolific accounts but no audience to view the submissions. I'd imagine the lack of traffic to Weasyl has something to do with its low adult submission percentage, and conversely, the high traffic to SoFurry (despite the proportionally lower amount of content) is due to the higher percentage of adult submissions. I guess you might say in general that people who go to Weasyl go there to post, not to view, and people who go to SoFurry go to... *ahem* ...view... not so much to post.
Even if I'm wrong, it's a neat dataset to look through. Thanks for putting it together!
Even if I'm wrong, it's a neat dataset to look through. Thanks for putting it together!
There's definitely an audience on weasyl, but it's not nearly as large as SoFurry's, yeah.
I think in part that's because SoFurry is the "king" of written media given it's history and much of that content was ported over to the new site from Yiffstar, while the others are new kids on the block. It's also just more friendly for writers (now at least, compared to the growing pains before). Also, porn.
Though InkBunny has a lot of porn it has what looks to be 85% less traffic comparatively speaking to Weasyl. Those are all rough estimates though. I don't have the real numbers from the official sites.
I'm mostly surprised that despite being the king of content, FA doesn't have that much more traffic than others. It's definitely a lot more, but not nearly as comparative to it's content. All other sites combined gives me about 636k, which is just 238k short of FA. If trends continue, FA may no longer be dominant and you'll have a multi-polar dominance in the fandom for various sites. The fandom has always had tons of different sites available, but FA's been considered the HUB or center of furry content for quite a while since the downfall of VCL.
I think in part that's because SoFurry is the "king" of written media given it's history and much of that content was ported over to the new site from Yiffstar, while the others are new kids on the block. It's also just more friendly for writers (now at least, compared to the growing pains before). Also, porn.
Though InkBunny has a lot of porn it has what looks to be 85% less traffic comparatively speaking to Weasyl. Those are all rough estimates though. I don't have the real numbers from the official sites.
I'm mostly surprised that despite being the king of content, FA doesn't have that much more traffic than others. It's definitely a lot more, but not nearly as comparative to it's content. All other sites combined gives me about 636k, which is just 238k short of FA. If trends continue, FA may no longer be dominant and you'll have a multi-polar dominance in the fandom for various sites. The fandom has always had tons of different sites available, but FA's been considered the HUB or center of furry content for quite a while since the downfall of VCL.
The View, Favorites, and Comments section is the only area with data from 2011. That's 1/3rd of the total infographic.
Though with a database this large, it's not likely there would be significant change between now and then. The Law of Large Numbers is kind of a thing here. More samples would be great, but when you're talking about over 9 million things, something extraordinary is required to make a difference in numbers derived from them.
I'd say bug Dragoneer or Yak for an update, but good luck getting it.
Though with a database this large, it's not likely there would be significant change between now and then. The Law of Large Numbers is kind of a thing here. More samples would be great, but when you're talking about over 9 million things, something extraordinary is required to make a difference in numbers derived from them.
I'd say bug Dragoneer or Yak for an update, but good luck getting it.
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