FeedBurner Feed Stats
October 10th, 2007
A lot of people take the number that is displayed in your FeedBurner dashboard as the actual number of RSS subscribers you have. It tends to fluctuate a lot from a day to day basis, which is confusing – are people really adding and dropping your feed at that rate? After a little look around the help section, I have found some clarification. It turns out that the number is only an approximation of your total subscribers calculated based on how many times your feed was requested in the last 24 hours.
FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. Subscribers is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed.
Now you know :)
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By WarriorBlog on Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
Yep, learned it from John blog awhile back. I was happy to hear that ;-)
By Nick on Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
It would be nice to know your actual amount of subscribers but I guess that is near impossible to track, what with all the different readers out there.
By Susan Suarez on Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
I’ve known about this but I’m glad more people are talking about it because I think the general population doesn’t know.