After spending a few months in a “conserved” state due to hosting issues, Fandomstats.org is back up and running with full capabilities, graphs and all!

You now (again) can:

See statistics for an AO3 tag, displayed as graphs (breakdown of ratings, most popular categories, ships, warnings, other tags)

Get the same data as CSV or JSON

Use the API directly (and read some basic documentation)

Look up bookmarks of works by a specific author

AND (because I was already tinkering with the code and wanted to build something fun)

Get a random AO3 work from a tag, or any other list of works (including non-filterable searches). For example: a random work from the Yuletide 2021 collection

After seeing this post, for the hell of it I decided to run Red vs. Blue through fandomstats.org and see what came up. (Images captioned for accessibility.)

Note that this data is strictly from AO3, and thus this isn’t a comprehensive analysis of RvB fic across platforms or spanning the series’ full runtime. Note also that fandomstats seems to lag a little behind realtime, with the actual up-to-the-minute numbers on AO3 being slightly higher across the board, but probably still proportionally the same.)

Of note:

Red vs. Blue on AO3 has considerably more gen fic than average. Where F/M outpaces Gen on AO3 at large, the Red vs. Blue tag has more gen fic than F/M and F/F combined.

The percentage of explicit fic for RvB is relatively small--about 10%, less than the 17% on AO3 at large.

That percentage of explicit fic shifts slightly by pairing type: 15% for M/M, 10% for F/M, 12% for F/F. There’s slightly more explicit fic for M/M, but it’s still a) a relatively small percentage of the total, and b) less than the average across fandoms on AO3.

The only two non-M/M pairings in the top ten are canon F/M ships.

Most frequently appearing characters are all male except for Carolina. (Note that character tags don’t necessarily indicate a main character in the fic, just that the character was tagged).

Fluff is the most popular freeform tag in Red vs. Blue fic on AO3, by a considerable margin.

The bookmark viewer now returns a link to the result page instead of displaying them. This is a temporary fix while we deal with recent AO3 changes that broke the original code. The tool is still usable, if a little unwieldy, and we'll let you know when it's fully fixed.

Details under the cut!

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