📖 How’s My Book Doing?

You can support me by following my story on RR:
The Dark Lady’s Guide to Villainy

This tool is still running in a test environment. Please be mindful 🙂

It munches up a lot of resources of my server instance (and it’s not the most powerful instance, you know). So, please, don’t use it every hour!

If you ready to go even further and help me bring more fun and anxiety-driven RR tools to you, here’s my Patreon.
(just choose whatever paid tier you like)

As a bonus for being a paid patron, I’ll give you access to a dedicated service that isn’t that overworked (and access to the 100-book and 175-book versions of the Book Comparison Tool)

If you have any requests or recommendations, please come over to my Discord server!

Performance Tiers

Your book’s performance is ranked into tiers based on how it compares to similar books on Royal Road:

💎 Diamond Tier (top in that metric)

Exceptional performance – Your book is literally the best performer in this category. This indicates outstanding reader engagement and market success.

🥇 Gold Tier (Top 20%)

Excellent performance – Your book significantly outperforms most similar stories. You’re doing something very right!

🥈 Silver Tier (Top 50%)

Good performance – Your book performs better than average. There’s room for growth, but you’re on the right track.

🥉 Bronze Tier (Top 75%)

Below average performance – Your book has potential but may need improvements in story, marketing, shoutout swaps, or reader engagement.

⚫ Iron Tier (Bottom 25%)

May need improvement – Consider focusing on story quality, cover design, description, or posting schedule to boost performance. Also, shoutout swaps may help if you think everything else is solid.

So, if you are looking for a good crowd of people to help you improve the story and find some shoutout swaps, I recommend you joining either RR Writer’s Guild or Immersive Ink on Discord 🙂

Key Metrics Explained

Followers – Readers who get notifications for new chapters. This shows reader loyalty and engagement.

Total Views – All page views across your story. Higher views indicate better discoverability (or, you know, just a lot of chapters and years of posting).

Average Views – Views per chapter. This indicates how well each individual chapter performs.

Favorites – Readers who marked your story as a favorite. Shows strong reader attachment.

Rating Count – Number of people who rated your story. More ratings indicate broader engagement.

Rating – Average star rating (0-5 stars). This reflects story quality and reader satisfaction. Or whether you are a target of rating bombers (you may want to contact the mods).

Followers per Page – Efficiency metric showing how well you retain readers relative to story length. Higher is better.

Ever wondered what happens when you mix “Time Loop” with “Slice of Life”? Or perhaps “Dungeons” with “Romance”? Introducing the Book Essence Discord Bot – your mystical guide to discovering the rarest (and weirdest) tag combinations on Royal Road!

📊 Most Tracked (24 hours)

It doesn’t mean someone checked their book multiple times, it means that these books pop up on the RS lists and relevant searches more than the others.