How does your fiction engagement compare between RR and SH?

[Eldoria]

You can calculate the engagement of your work on SH and RR, then compare them. For example:

On SH, your fiction has 40k views, 200 readers, and 10 ratings.

Meanwhile, on RR, your fiction has 10K views, 10 followers (readers), and 2 ratings.

You can ignore favorites because the parameters of RR and SH are different: SH favorites represent the number of chapters liked overall vs. RR favorites represent the number of people who liked your fiction and displayed your fiction on the reader profile page list (there is a promotion function here).

Now, you can compare the 2 statistical data where SH engagement>RR engagement, then answer the vote above, the answer is 1.

Each fiction can have different engagement. How about your fiction?

And why I created this thread, I want to understand whether achieving a balance of engagement on RR and SH is rare or not?

 

[Makimaam]

One thing I want to add is that if both RR and SH have 10k views, RR actually has more views because RR counts chapter views, whereas SH counts only front page views. So for comparability, SH’s total view (chapters) should be compared against RR.

My fiction has the same engagement in terms of views but RR readers are more vocal. On both sites, there are people writing speculative theories so to me there isn’t much difference between the two.

 

[Envylope]

I am getting much more engagement on RR. More readers, comments, ratings, etc.

 

[Lorelliad]

Oddly enough, RR Is marginally better than SH.

Out of 6 chapters, I have 96 views on SH and 1 readers.

Out of 6 chapters, I have 168 views on RR and no followers.

Out of 6 chapters, I have 3.4k views on WN and one collection (me).

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

1/2. RR is LitRPG world. That is the entire secret.

 

[CountVanBadger]

Way, way, WAY more engagement on RR. XNPC has a little more than 1000 views and 14 followers on SH, and 6,600 views and 80 followers on RR. It's been roughly a month and a half since launch.

 

[KinaSkynight]

I post on 4 sites, AO3, here, RR and WebNovel, I wanted to post on Tapas but I have no thumbnail or suitable covers (I can't adjust the size of the one I made )

AO3 have 20 hits, 2 kudos and one comment (from my fan of my fanfic lol now she is a friend one kudos from her too hehe)
Here I have 132 views with 78 actually reading it, 1 favourite the chapter and 2 readers
RR I have 40 views with 1 favourites
WebNovel is like 1.07k views though effective readers is where it counts, got 1 effective and 1 collections. I didn't know you could add your own story to your collections so it wasn't me. I got lucky :D

I guess I got a lucky start, all things considered. Gotta work harder, but first, need to finish writing a Wind Breaker fanfic hahaha I love Wind breaker so much and it was because of this anime and manga that I got enough courage to just post my stories online hehe.

 

[Paul__Michaels]

One isn't better than the other by broad strokes. It depends on what type of genre you are writing that will indicate on how good your audience engagement will be.

Like, if you are a LiteRPG manhwa novel with decent writing skills. You will likely get good engagement with RR readers. Erotica on the other hand is very much looked down on in RR. I know. I almost got my work deleted because they have some type of analytics that breaks down what is all in my work. 15% sensual scenes or over in the entire work is cause for termination.

SH does well with Fantasy, LiteRPG, Manhwa too. But it does have an audience that loves GL, GB, Smut, in them. However, the audience size overall is smaller on SH.
Like there is some overlap between RR and SH readers, but RR has more readers at this moment.

So, it really depends on a lot of things if you are going to have a good experience on either of these sites. I don't have a good experience with half the reader base on RR, and it has to do with my work being around one third erotica, another third slice of life, and the last third being plot. But mostly the Erotica is what pisses a certain group of readers on RR.

Anywho, that's all I got to say.

 

[Exiled_From_Earth]

I started uploading chapters of my first volume daily on RoyalRoad about two months ago (I plan to switch to the same schedule I have over here once that volume is up), and so far, views have been surprisingly roughly the same as on here. With one major difference. I have more readers here, but more actual chapter views on RR. (Still no comments on either, though...)

I do expect for my numbers to go up with time, much in the same way they did here. Of course, the increase won't be dramatic, I'm not suddenly going to gain 15 readers overnight, but it will probably be a slow build.
If there's one thing I've learned about being a webfiction writer, it's that you have to learn to play the waiting game. (While still writing, of course)

I have no clue if I'm ever gonna make RR catch up to SH, though. I started out here, and at the rate I'm going, my series is always going to be at least twenty or so chapters ahead here. I guess I could take a break or something once book two is done, so I can work on book three, but either that or a mass chapter dump on RR are the only ways I see both sites having an equal amount of chapters. (But, I kinda like keeping them uneven because I like you guys more than I like RR )

 

[AliceMoonvale]

One thing I want to add is that if both RR and SH have 10k views, RR actually has more views because RR counts chapter views, whereas SH counts only front page views. So for comparability, SH’s total view (chapters) should be compared against RR.

My fiction has the same engagement in terms of views but RR readers are more vocal. On both sites, there are people writing speculative theories so to me there isn’t much difference between the two.

This exactly.
I'll use myself as a shameless example because I'm the local insane person.

In a span of 3 months,
My very off-meta, normal survival diary story currently has:

RR: -2.6k views (chapter reads)
SH: -882 chapter views (not total views)

SH version has more comments overall because of a supportive chinese lady I know and a magical duck. Of course, with some other nice people sprinkled in. On RR, my comments are primarily from one person, with a couple other sprinkled in also. So, the engagement styles can feel a bit different between the two platforms overall.

(also, Rest In Peace to the fellow shirley jackson fan that tragically died ((account suddenly deleted)) while actively reading my story on RR. very tragic.)

 

[AstreiaNyx]

My novel has never been on Rising Stars, it isn’t LitRPG, has adult content. I’ve never run ads or done shoutouts or review swaps but there is still more engagement on RR than on SH, despite trending on SH quite consistently whenever I upload 2+ chapters a week.

My follower count on RR is only about 1/4 of what it is on SH, but I have more effective views, more comments and more reviews on RR.

 

[Bimbanana]

I kind of built my own little cult on RR, so yeah… it works better for me there.

On SH I get around 1/8 of the views I get on RR. I’m pretty sure that’s because I managed to hit Rising Stars there.

The funny thing is, though, after months of posting regularly, I’m actually starting to see some sudden spike on Wattpad.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Initial engagement was better at RR but it didn't last. Here it's been slow but steady.

 

[CanOfTuna]

I found it easier to have people on RR read my story because of the shoutout-networkings.

Total views on RR: 14815
Chapter views on SH: 874

So about a 16:1 difference haha

 

[SouthernMaiden]

I started very slow on RR, but have been growing much more quickly recently there recently. While on SH I grew more quickly at first, and am growing more slowly now.

Think it took awhile for the genderswap enjoyers to find me in RR. While on SH they found me immediately.

 

[onehunter]

RR didn't accept my story for a while, so it's over a very different time frame, plus a totally different posting schedule. But average chapter views are climbing much faster on RR. By the time the story catches up to where I am on here @ 2 posts a day, it'll probably have more views in absolute terms.