LibriVox monthly statistics

[HannaPonomarenko]

I might be wrong - but I don't think he would have much control over the figures he gets. Bengt just shares the stats YouTube provides for his personal chapter which he set up and he runs.

The only figure you could get for individual projects is from the Archive page which is linked from LV's catalogue page.
As a random example https://archive.org/details/ocherkiproshlagorazskazy_1806_librivox has 28,213 views which means the page has been accessed that number of times but there is no way of telling how many of those accesses were people listening to it or how those people listened.

Anne

I've noticed that achive.org stats lies. My first and only solo had the following views
29.12.2023 0
30.12.2023 5698
09.01.2023 14
10.01.2023 13763
03.02.2023 30318

https://archive.org/details/izbrannye_2212_librivox one can see that now it has 21,532 Views.

That's why I trust youtube more.

[InTheDesert]

I've noticed that achive.org stats lies. My first and only solo had the following views
29.12.2023 0
30.12.2023 5698
09.01.2023 14
10.01.2023 13763
03.02.2023 30318

https://archive.org/details/izbrannye_2212_librivox one can see that now it has 21,532 Views.

That's why I trust youtube more.

I investigated this here.

[HannaPonomarenko]

I investigated this here.

Thank you, but I still don't understand why the number of views drop at times

[BengtW]

Hi Bengt!
I see the same maybe 10 recordings on top every month.
Here are my suggestions.
Youtube report could be more interesting if it could show
- English top 10 (expculding youtube promoted records)
- non-English top 10
- the best new record (1-2 month old),
- best non-English record (1-2 month old).

If it needs too sophisticated efforts please disregard this message.
Thank you for you work!

Thank you for reaching out. The top 10 (actually top 28) every month is quite consistent and I cannot convincingly tell if they are popular due to promotion or what ever reason. I think that some recordings are popular because they are popular (already have many views). I could find out what is popular among the recent uploads (lets say up to three months old). For non English works this is would be more difficult as the language is only in the description and not a meta data of the video. I will look into it.

[TriciaG]

In February, LibriVox volunteers completed 94 projects, bringing us to 219 total projects for 2023.

Other stats:

Total number of projects 18442
Number of completed projects 17766
Number of completed non-English projects 2237
Total number of languages 100
Number of languages with a completed work 47
Number of completed solo projects 9385
Number of readers 12923
...who have completed something 12783

[BengtW]

January :
Views: 575,054
View time: 342,362 hours
Likes: 8,328
Comments: 843
Total number of subscribers: 132,604

YouTube statistics for February 2023:
Views: 509,395
View time: 299,931 hours
Likes: 7,261
Comments: 775

Most listened to:
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny KELLY read by TriciaG 5,215 hours
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. RUPPELT 4,650 hours
Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars by Reginald Bosworth Smith 3,572 hours
Anne of the Island (version 2) by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 2,972 hours
The Book Of Jasher by ANONYMOUS read by CJ Plogue 2,946 hours
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY 2,693 hours
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Bernal Díaz del CASTILLO 2,571 hours
The Secret Garden (version 2) by Frances Hodgson BURNETT read by Karen Savage 2,264 hours
Short Science Fiction Collection 090 by Various read by Various 2,130 hours
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 by ANONYMOUS 1,973 hours
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1 by Louis GINZBERG read by Various 1,615 hours
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 1,600 hours
The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON read by Peter Yearsley 1,577 hours
Life on the Mississippi by Mark TWAIN read by John Greenman 1,545 hours
Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET read by Steven Seitel 1,494 hours
Persuasion (version 4) by Jane AUSTEN read by Karen Savage 1,363 hours
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne read by Phil Chenevert 1,351 hours
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier by Frances A. Fuller Victor 1,349 hours
The House of Mirth by Edith WHARTON read by Elizabeth Klett 1,345 hours
Rainbow Valley (version 2) by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 1,340 hours
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (The Warr... 1,307 hours
The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald KEYHOE read by Roger Melin 1,287 hours
The Roswell Report: Case Closed by James McAndrew read by Aaron Bennett 1,273 hours
Short Science Fiction Collection 088 by Various read by Various 1,271 hours
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik VAN LOON read by Various 1,262 hours
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography by Edwin EASTMAN 1,237 hours
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound by John R. JEWITT 1,201 hours
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 by James B. Gillett read by Various 1,171 hours
The Railway Children by E. NESBIT read by Karen Savage 1,137 hours

Listeners location:
United States 59.4%
United Kingdom 10.1%
Canada 5.4%
Australia 2.4%
Spain 2.0%
Mexico 1.4%
Netherlands 1.1%
Ireland 0.9%
Germany 0.8%
France 0.7%
New Zealand 0.6%
South Africa 0.5%
Sweden 0.5%
India 0.5%
Philippines 0.3%

Listeners device:
Mobile 59.9%
Desktop 18.4%
Tablet 12.6%
Tv 9.1%

Listeners gender:
Female: 41.8%
Male: 58.2%
Genderuserspecified: 0.0%

Listeners age:
13-17 years 1.6%
18-24 years 13.5%
25-34 years 14.8%
35-44 years 15.3%
45-54 years 15.6%
55-64 years 18.7%
65- years 20.5%

Total number of subscribers: 135,783

[HannaPonomarenko]

I could find out what is popular among the recent uploads (lets say up to three months old). For non English works this is would be more difficult as the language is only in the description and not a meta data of the video. I will look into it.

Hi! I'm curious if it was too difficult and burdensome?
Thank you for your work on popularization of our work

[BengtW]

Seems much harder than I though, I started looking into it and found no way to filter out this info. I need another take on this.

[annise]

I'm trying to find out how Archive decides about languages, I'm not optimistic. It does appear in the summaries "Read in Martian by Superman" but you really need it in the output files and so far I can not find it anywhere.

Anne