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Monday, 20 January 2025

All Time Most Popular Post in 2024 (MPP3)

 
"A judge caused a surprise in this year's IFNB Open, Western Semi-Final by going on stage and confronting the contestants. Gerry Kabalski (Idaho) said later that the unexpected intervention put him off his stroke and ruined his chances, but the Judges dismissed his appeal on the grounds that it was the same for everyone. Judge Trumble was subsequently suspended"
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 Art by this year's winner for the sixth year running, IFNB.
 
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I've flipped the 'all time' popularity listings this year to give precedence to hit rates averaged out over the number of years since publication. This is a method that gives recent articles the same chance as older ones. I have retained the 'total number of hits since publication' but as a secondary measure, since it has reached a point where older articles have established unassailable totals.
 
 
Table 1
Articles with the Highest Average Hits per Year Since Publication (2024)
 
Article
Year
Published
Ave Hits per year
Position
(& last year)
'Total Hits' position
2018
8226
1 (1)
2
2017
7209
2 (2)
1
2020

4140
3 (3)
13
Homoeros Gallery Guide
2018
3981
4 (4)
7
Milking Factories - 3
2018
3937
5 (5)
6
2012
3643
6 (6)
3
Ain Postolos - Milking Fact Workers
2024
3130
NEW
n/a
2016
2771
7 (7)
9
2019
2664
8 (8)
14
A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2010
2438
9 (10)
5
The Art of BrosFate – 3
2020
2408
10 (9)
22
2018

2362
11 (12)

16
A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo
2008
2358
12 (14) 
4
2020
2222
13 (11)
28
The Art of Amalaric – 3 Hunks & Manipulators
2020
1966
14 (15) 
40
The Art of Homoeros - 1 (Beefcake Boys)
2018
1782
15 (18)
26
2021
1777
16 (13)
78
2018
1729
17 (20)
23
A New Life For Our Air Force Boys
2017
1665
18 (-)
21
2019
1608
19 (-)
35
A Christmas Criminal
2015
1593
20 (-)
17
Stats compiled 31/12/24
Short cut to Last Years Table

IFNB and Milking Factory topped the table again this year and continue to outscore every other post in the blog on a regular basis. The gap between these two closed a little, but the the chasing pack have been falling further and further behind. All of the top 8 articles kept the same position but there was much jostling further down.

 The two top articles benefitted from new posts on the same subject in 2024 (IFNB Newsletter and the continuing stream of Milking Factory posts). Other entries which benefited from 'connected articles' were Homoeros, Etienne, Brosfate and Chirenon's 'Air Force Boys' which re-entered the chart after a two year absence thanks to it's linkage with Etiennes 'Sailor Beware' story and it's Royale Studio spin-off. There are 3 articles about Homoeros' work in the table and 2 by Brosfate.

 Amalaric stormed this chart back in 2021 and has kept it's 3rd position just behind the two leaders without any extra support this year, a measure of genuine lasting popularity. Amalaric has 2 articles in the chart. Three older stalwarts of the chart have also been quietly maintaining their positions without any extra publicity - Priapus at 6, MCarcel at 9 (up 1) and Cavelo at 12 (up 2). The resurgence of the last two is remarkable, considering that they are the oldest articles in this top 20, no less than 14 and 16 years old and still going strong!

There were three new entries this year, or rather, three 'returners' who ejected more recent upstarts who haven't sustained their early successes (Roa, Planet Gay and Brick). They were replaced by Milking Factory 5 and Airforce Boys (both after one year out) and my own 'Christmas Criminal' (last here in 2020) which I gave a modest plug this Christmas on 'X'. The departers look likely to be followed next time by the only photographic article in the table, 'Come and Get It!', which has become redundant with the transfer of Royale Studio material to the new Royale blog. 

I don't count articles less than one year old in this table. I have indicated where they would have registered in orange but Ain Postolos score is artificial, it exceeds the number of real hits he has had so far, due to being published less than a year ago.

The entry level to this table is 1593 down from 1862 last year. It's well within the range of Ain Postolos if he can keep up with his first year score of 1475 in the future.

The A-Z Index of Artists at mitchmen hit score presently averages 10,777


Table 2 mitchmen Articles With Most Hits Since Publication to end 2024

Posn
(last yr)
Title of Post
(& link)
Year of
Pub'n
Cum
Hits
Hits in 2024
1 (2)
2017 
56,740 
5355
2 (1)
IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders2018
56,095
4338
3 (3)
2012 
46,311
1936
4 (4)
2008
39,193
2572
5 (5)
2010
35,595
1100
6 (6)
2018
26,027
1170
7 (7)
2018
24,096
909
8 (8)
2009
23,524
567
9 (9)
2016
22,590
933
10 (10)
2010
20,287
586
11 (11)
2009
20,044
 716
12 (13)
2008
18,080
2671
13 (12)
The Art of Amalaric 1 - A Slave To Passion
2020
18,034
2169
14 (15)
2019
15,882
1489
15 (14)
2010
15,289
537
16 (18)
2018
15,049
2001
17 (17)
2015
14,389
608
18 (16)
A-Z of Fetish Artists – The Hun
2009
14,258
369
19 (19)
2009
12,891
578
20 (20)
2009
12,532
403
 
This year again it was pretty much 'as you were' in the all-time table of total hits with the notable exception of Milking Factories-1 which reclaimed the No 1 spot it had in 2022, returning IFNB to second place (and closing the gap in Table 1). These two continue to pull away strongly from the rest of the pack, who are now a long, long way behind them. 
 
This table has a number of older articles which no longer feature in Table 1, but have built up big totals in earlier years which are almost unassailable by new ones. Thus Brick's resurgence here, prompted by the release of new work in 2023 and continued in 2024, doesn't register in Table 1, where under-performance in earlier years depresses it's rating . He nudged past Amalaric's 'Slave to Passion' into 12th place and is closing in on Franco and Malex (two other old-timers). Further down, Homoeros (Art of the Cross) swapped places with The Hun, rising to 16th position and more than reclaiming the ground he lost last year. 
 
The Milking Factory series has 3 entries in this table and all consolidated their positions in the top 20 with Milking Factory No 4 overtaking Martin of Holland to take 14th place. Milking Factory No 2 is just outside the top 20. Homoeros is the only artist to have two dedicated articles in the top 20, although Kalabro contributed to 'Milking Factory 1' as well as his dedicated article, so he has a comparable claim.

There were no new entries to the top 20 once again this year, but there's a gaggle of contenders just outside and performing strongly (including 'Airforce Boys' and Brosfate 3). The bottom two articles, Kalabro and The Hun, are now vulnerable to this wave.

The entry level to this all-time top 20 is now 12,532 about 400 more than last year. It's about 10 times the winning total of the new posts in 2023 and 2024 which is why I have switched to the annual hit rates as the principal measure of 'all time' performance.
 
The mitchmen  'Index of Artists' page reached 99,300 hits at the end of 2024, a 13% rise (compared with 13% last time also). It would have earned top spot in this ranking if I counted it as a post.

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mitchmen blog was first published in 2008 and ten of the sixteen years since then are now represented in this survey, the missing years between 2008 and 2022 are shown below
**These articles have yet to score enough hits to register in the table properly, I don't count every score less than 2000 hits. 2000 is position 402 currently.

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The articles I post to this blog are very much based on my own interests and fancies but the results of this survey do help me plan future offerings. My readers preferences doesn't always match my own (where are Les, JoeT and Link?). Nevertheless it's gratifying to see such interest in the great gay fetish artists who often have a fairly low visibility on the web.

Remember, this comparison is only made for entertainment, since I don't really know how accurate Google's stats are, they don't seem to add up to the overall hits at the blog and I suspect they don't count the activity of people who just browse through the blog roll.

Thanks to all of you for your continuing interest and support.
 
This annual set of articles is made up of 3 charts
MPP3 - Most Popular Post of All Time (i.e. cumulative performance)
that's this article!
 
Charts and reviews for earlier years can be accessed by clicking the 'MPP' label below

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