I tried seeing if this had been asked before by searching for things like "statistics" and "demographics", but all I found was a similar post I made years ago asking about those sorts of analytics (and being told they weren't collected, which is fine). Perhaps I spend too much time around marketers.
That said, I was curious about a thing. Well, two things.
First, I've noticed that stories can be scheduled for either 8 am or 8 pm each day. I was curious if there were any statistics in general regarding when stories tended to be posted. Obviously, they would spike along those times, but I was curious within that what days were more popular for posting, and if outside of those spikes there were other interesting patterns.
On the flip side, I'm also curious as to when during the week readers are more likely to read. Are there reader traffic spikes on Monday mornings? Friday evenings? Thursday tea-times?
Transparently, I'm a little curious to try to figure out when readers will be around, such that posting a new chapter at that time will maximize the number of potential readers who see it. As well as balancing that against posting when fewer stories are being posted, so it's not lost in a sea of new things.
Of course, if this information is revealed publicly, that will probably influence behavior for people posting stories, so it may all be moot—that is, if a sweet time is discovered, then everyone will swarm it and ruin it.
Given that (and other obvious reasons regarding privacy and data collection), I can appreciate that information not actually being available. But if it is available publicly, I am quite curious as to its contents. And if it's not, that's not a big deal to me. Just thought I'd ask.
