Series stats list...really?
2 months ago
Posts: 15
I barely use this site, but when I do, it's just to find manga every so often. I don't know what happened to this site, but even 18 years ago, series stats was a metric that people used to find new series. From a pinned forum post: "Pick 6 and 3 months in activity to get an overview and the weekly for a more recent updates to the series. The list stats is great, now you can finally look at what's on most peoples reading list ect."
So what happened? There's such an obscene amount of smut, hentai, borderline-h in the top 100 list it might as well be a vast majority. It's fine if it's actually accurate, as in the yearly ranking activity wise is being portrayed and users are clicking on those links (god forbid there be an actual genre filter system in place though...).
But it doesn't really add up. Manga that haven't been translated, manga that have been published for less than 6 months show up in the top 100, manga with tens of votes, (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/y36wmxt/construction-worker-s-public-toy) like you're joking right, this manga is rank 3 weekly and rank 39 yearly with 5 user votes and a singular joke review?
2 months ago
Posts: 33
I wanna understand that too. Someone please explain to us how this is possible.
2 months ago
Posts: 2857
So the first thing I'll say is that MangaUpdates is pretty far out from its peek popularity, which was probably in the 2011 time frame. The traffic we get now is more transient and search engine driven.
In the last few years, especially with webtoons or serializations, we get a massive uptick in weekly traffic during release days for those specific series (especially for seekers in other languages like Indonesia). I'm not sure if we're just the first result in the search engine, and these seekers end up elsewhere, but these thousands of views do influence the rankings quite a bit.
Our guest demographics are probably only 50% US driven these days. The rest are from other non-English speaking countries. All of this means that the series stats page (while "accurate") doesn't really convey meaningful information any longer.
