All Time Most Popular Post, up to 2025 (MPP3)

A gym assistant performs oral, stim spotting for heavyweight favourite, Julio Rodriguez, as he ramps up his preparations for the Nationals later this year.

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 Art by this year's MPP3 winner - IFNB.

 

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I've flipped the 'all time' popularity listings again 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. The figure in the last column illustrates the benefit to younger articles. I have retained the 'total number of hits since publication' as a secondary measure, but it has reached a point where older articles have established unassailable totals.

 

 

Table 1

Articles with the Highest Average Hits per Year Since Publication (to 2025)

 

Article	Year Published	Ave Hits per year (last yr)	Position (& last year)	'Total Hits' position
IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders	2018	7596 (8226)	1 (1)	2
The Milking Factory	2017	6888 (7209)	2 (2)	1
Milking Factories - 3	2018	3557 (3937)	3 (5)	6
The Art of Amalaric – 1, A Slave To Passion	2020	3542 (4140)	4 (3)	13
Priapus of Milet - 1	2012	3504 (3643)	5 (6)	3
Homoeros Gallery Guide	2018	3496 (3981)	6 (4)	7
Art by Shenguanlin	2023	3023	7 (-)	61
Etienne - Index of articles at mitchmen	2016	2577 (2771)	8 (7)	9
Milking Factories-4	2019	2432 (2664)	9 (8)	14
A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel	2010	2348 (2438)	10 (9)	5
A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo	2008	2301 (2358)	11 (12)	4
The Art of Homoeros - 6 (Art of The Cross)	2018	2224 (2362)	12 (11)	15
The Art of BrosFate – 3	2020	2085 (2408)	13 (10)	23
The Art of BrosFate – 1	2020	1951 (2222)	14 (13)	28
Ain Postolos - Milking Fact Workers	2024	1908	15 (-)	297
The Art of Amalaric – 3 Hunks & Manipulators	2020	1746 (1966)	16 (14)	37
The Art of Homoeros - 1 (Beefcake Boys)	2018	1629 (1782)	17 (15)	24
Another Milking Factory, No 2	2018	1614 (1729)	18 (17)	21
A New Life For Our Air Force Boys	2017	1524 (1665)	19 (18)	22
A Christmas Criminal	2015	1513 (1593)	20 (20)	17
Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jotto	2009	1484	21 (-)	8
IFNB 3 - International Federation of Naked Bodybuilders Newsletter	2024	1484	21 (-)	312

Stats compiled 31/12/25

Shortcut to Last Year's Table (2024)

IFNB and Milking Factory topped the table again this year and continue to comfortably outscore every other post in the blog on a regular basis (bar one this year). They both benefitted from related, new posts - namely, IFNB Newsletter, which reached 21 on this ranking, just outside the chart and the continuing stream of Milking Factory posts, including ones by this year's golden boy, Shenguanlin and the other new entry from Ain Postolos, who creditably sustained his initial popularity into a second year.

The gap between the top two closed again this year, but the chasing pack has been falling further and further behind, including 'Milking Factory 3' which leapfrogged the competition into 3rd place. The only post keeping pace with the heavy scoring of the top two this year was Art by Shenguanlin, which gatecrashed the table into 7th place. 

Some former giants drifted downwards  - Amalaric (at 4, 16), MCarcel (10) and Brosfate (13, 14). Also Homoeros (6, 12, 17) despite his good showing in the new posts chart. They were all either elbowed aside by the new bloods or displaced by some old hands showing their longevity - Priapus at 5 (up 1), Cavelo at 11 (up 1).  

Etienne's index of articles (8) also declined, but was one of the few articles to register higher hits in 2025 than the previous year, thanks to synergies generated with the Exclusively-Etienne Google Group. My marketing efforts at 'X' helped my own 'A Christmas Criminal' to do the same trick, managing to hang onto 20th spot despite strong challenges from IFNB Revisted and Shenguanlin's Milking Factory 14.

Dropping out of the table, were 'Come and Get It!' (was 16) which has become redundant with the transfer of Royale Studio material to the new Royale blog.  Also, 'Milking Factories 5 -Development Lab' (was 19)

The entry level to this table is now 1484 down 7% from 1593 last year. That score is not beyond the scores of the best new articles, but I don't allow articles less than one year old in this table. There were several this year whose time-averaged scores would have got them in, but only thanks to ultra short periods since publication.

The A-Z Index of Artists at mitchmen hit score presently averages 10,363

The table below shows the old 'Total Hits' measure 

Table 2 mitchmen Articles With Most Hits Since Publication to end 2025

Posn (last yr)	Title of Post (& link)	Year of Pub'n	Cum Hits	Hits in 2025
1 (1)	The Milking Factory	2017	61107	4367
2 (2)	IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders	2018	59393	3298
3 (3)	Priapus of Milet - 1	2012	48,051	1740
4 (4)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo	2008	40547	1354
5 (5)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel	2010	36643	1048
6 (6)	Milking Factories - 3	2018	27070	1043
7 (7)	Homoeros Gallery Guide	2018	24655	559
8 (8)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jotto	2009	24001	477
9 (9)	Etienne - index of articles at mitchmen	2016	23590	1000
10 (11)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Franco	2009	20937	893
11 (10)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Malex	2010	20645	358
12 (12)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Brick	2008	20379	2299
13 (13)	The Art of Amalaric 1 - A Slave To Passion	2020	18971	937
14 (14)	Milking Factories-4	2019	16928	1046
15 (16)	The Art of Homoeros – 6 (Art of The Cross)	2018	16396	1347
16 (15)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – Martin of Holland	2010	15818	529
17 (17)	A Christmas Criminal by Mitchell (1-5)	2015	15171	782
18 (18)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – The Hun	2009	14496	238
19 (19)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Kalabro	2009	13632	741
20 (20)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Julius	2009	12983	451

 

As expected, there were no major upheavals in the Total Hits list. Franco and Malex swapped positions at 10 & 11 and Homoeros - Part 6 overtook Martin of Holland (at 15 & 16). There wasn't a single new entry. The last column shows how strongly the leaders continue to pull away from the rest of the pack, who are now a long, long way behind them. Only Brick at 12 looks set to make any progress. 

 

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 entries. Franco, Malex, Brick, Martin of Holland, The Hun, Kalabro and Julius are all a long way down the hit rate table, but their position here doesn't seem under serious challenge. 

 

The entry level to this all-time top 20 is now 12,983 about 450 more than last year. It's about 10 times the winning total of most new posts these days.

 

The mitchmen  'Index of Artists' page reached 105,844 hits at the end of 2024, a 6% rise (compared with 13% last time). It would have earned top spot in this ranking if I counted it as a post.

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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

MPP1 - Most Popular New Post of the Year 

MPP2 - Most Popular Post during the Year (All articles )

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