Pointless FanFiction.net Statistics

For some reason I can no longer recall, back in July I wrote a set of scripts to scrape FanFiction.net and acquire some statistics. They're essentially useless, since the site -- despite being the 800lb. gorilla of this space -- isn't the be all and end all of the fanfiction community. Fandoms with archives of their own and fandoms predating the site are definitely under-represented, though I can't say by exactly how much. Still, what follows is the top thirty FanFiction.net fandoms by number of stories, as of August 20, 2005.

The "list count" column contains the site's reported story counts from the genre listing pages, which includes stories in various languages. The "estimate" column is extrapolated from the pagination on English story listings, and I think it's correct to ±25.

Surprisingly, anime dominates, with seven of the top ten and 35% of the overall total:

Exclude Harry Potter and The Statistical Anomaly and the results are even more pronounced: books drop from 25% to 9%; anime moves to 41.3%.