In 2016, 2018, and 2020, I (Briana) conducted a blogger stats survey to help shed some transparency on what stats are “normal” in book blogging. I personally found it helpful because many people seemed to assume that their own stats were significantly lower than other bloggers’, when that often was not the case. It’s been two years since the last survey, so I thought it would be interesting to get some updated results for 2020, particularly as focus in the book community so often seems to be on Booktube, Bookstagram, and now BookTok.
Participation is anonymous, so please participate if this is a project that interests you. Also feel free to share, as the stats will be better if there are more data points (in 2016, I received about 70 responses; in 2018, I received 107; in 2020, I received 56).
- The 2016 survey results are here.
- The 2018 survey results are here.
- The 2020 survey results are here.
I’ve kept the questions about stats the same as in 2020, in order to compare across years, though I added BookTok as an option for a place you find bookish content. I also broke up the lowest answer for page views you receive daily. For the past three surveys, the lowest answer was 0-50 views. This year, you can answer 0-25 or 26-50, simply because so many people were choosing this option I thought it might be interesting to get a bit more detail. (For the record, the responses in so far indicate a bias towards answering 0-26.)
* Note that by “blogger,” I mean someone who runs a blog, not someone running a Booktube channel, Bookstagram, etc.. (You can do both, but you should have an actual blog.)
The survey should be embedded below, but if you don’t see it, you can answer by clicking here.
(I am tentatively planning to share results in June.)
Thanks for doing this! I’ll look forward to the recap! I learned last year that I was fairly average and that was an encouragement!
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Yes! I think so many people believe other book bloggers are out there getting a million page views a day and they’re the sad outlier for having 75 or whatever, and it’s just not true!
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This seems super interesting, I look forward to seeing the responses you get!
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Can’t wait to see the results!
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i look forward to the results.
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Looking forward to the results, what a great project!
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This is such a cool project! Thanks for doing this 🙂
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Thank you!
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Thank you for continuing to put together this survey and share the results!
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