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Friday, 16 January 2026

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
2018
7596
(8226)
1 (1)
2017
6888
(7209)
2 (2)
1
Milking Factories - 3
2018
3557
(3937)
3 (5)
6
2020

3542
(4140)
4 (3)
13 
2012
3504
(3643)
5 (6)
Homoeros Gallery Guide
2018
3496
(3981)
6 (4)
7
Art by Shenguanlin
2023

3023

7 (-)
61 
2016
2577
(2771)
8 (7)
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
2018

2224
(2362)
12 (11)

15
The Art of BrosFate – 3
2020
2085
(2408)
13 (10)
23
2020
1951
(2222)
14 (13)
28
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
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)
2017 
61107 
4367 
2 (2)
IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders2018
59393
3298 
3 (3)
2012 
48,0511740
4 (4)
2008
405471354
5 (5)
2010
366431048
6 (6)
2018
270701043
7 (7)
2018
24655559
8 (8)
2009
24001477
9 (9)
2016
235901000
10 (11)
2009
20937893
11 (10)
2010
20645358
12 (12)
2008
203792299
13 (13)
The Art of Amalaric 1 - A Slave To Passion
2020
18971937
14 (14)
2019
169281046
15 (16)
2018
163961347
16 (15)
2010
15818529
17 (17)
2015
15171782
18 (18)
A-Z of Fetish Artists – The Hun
2009
14496238
19 (19)
2009
13632741
20 (20)
2009
12983451
 
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
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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