DISQUS

clickdevacanta · 3 months ago

Any way to see all trafic?... isn't there something you may add to your code... how can you be shure... couldn't you tack the number the button was pushed?

Fred Oliveira · 2 years ago

Couldn't find the number on Google Reader itself (how do you get those, Robert?), but Feedburner reports 2,445 readers from Google Reader for my blog.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Hmmm, that's interesting. Google Reader is reporting that 524 come to it for your feed.

You open Google Reader. Click "Add Subscription." Search for your name. It shows you how many subscribers you have.

Fred Oliveira · 2 years ago

Found it. Weird indeed - with trailing slash (524) + without (419) amounts to almost 1,000 but feedburner still reports Google feedfetcher grabbing it 2.4x that.

gwhiz · 2 years ago

Kind of a bummer Matt & co took off the feed stats on Wordpress.com hosted blogs. Ah well. Whopping 36 take the gWHIZ blog via Google Reader and another 26 via Feedburner. The 2,000 or so who come by the site each day... are getting here by tags and solid SEM methods. (search on "leopard release date" at Google... numero uno just a second ago)

Louis Gray · 2 years ago

Ouch. Good to know I'm not in the "some of your favorites" category. :-)

I'm only in the 20s. Good thing I have a day job.

allen stern · 2 years ago

fyi - due to technical issues - i produce two feeds - the one techmeme uses is the lesser of the two - so that's why CN numbers may appear smaller than they actually are. I gotta get this feed issue fixed :)

Gabe · 2 years ago

Very handy. Thanks Robert. I made up a smaller list a few hours ago and emailed it to a few people...TC posted about the same time you did in fact.

The different capitalizations and punctuations make this very error prone, but it's still great to finally have some news subscriber data.

Stowe Boyd · 2 years ago

You reported that I had 1,057 on Twitter earlier today (which didn't make it into your favorites list), but Feedburner says 1,204 from Google Feedfetch. Note: 11,880 altogether according to Feedburner.

Seth E · 2 years ago

My blog says "Unknown". So, the way I see it, it's either 0 or 100,000,000 (and, of course, I'm leaning towards the latter). And, although I'm a tech person, I have to admit to not always "getting" feedburner's counting system (subscriber vs. live hits etc).

Mike McBride · 2 years ago

Google Reader reports 177, Feedburner 192, I'm attributing that to the fact that Feedburner reports all of Google's properties, including people who might have the feed showing on their iGoogle page, not just the one's in Reader, while I assume Reader's numbers are just from Reader users.

I base this on nothing more than a guess.. :)

Dharmesh Shah · 2 years ago

For OnStartups.com (my startup blog), Google Reader reports 2,135 subscribers.

My actual total subscribers as reported by FeedBurner is 7,319.

tim finin · 2 years ago

One of our blogs on UMBC's new academic programs on games, animation and interactive media [1] shows "unknown subscribers" for the count. Well, I know it has at least *one*. Is there a threshold on the number of subscribers?

[1] http://gaim.umbc.edu/news/

Dawn D. · 2 years ago

IMO, Robert, this isn't relevant to mainstream readers and is reflective of technical audiences, for the most part.

I don't use a reader at all and I've asked all my friends and my kids and they don't either.

I have the sites I visit regularly saved as organized favorites using the Yahoo tab feature. One click to a particular folder and they all open up.

I've tried the Google reader, but I'd rather go directly to the website.

By this, it looks like newspapers have a small percentage of the traffic that places like TechCrunch and Digg get. I don't believe it. Again, I think it's skewed to favor technical sites because of the techie people who read them.

My favorite news sites I don't even have in my Yahoo tabs system. I look them up in the url address field by opening the dropdown and clicking on the one I want to visit. You techie folks probably think I'm crazy, but I bet the majority of the public does the same.

Jeremy Toeman · 2 years ago

I think I have about 7 readers. I sure better work on that...

Mathew Ingram · 2 years ago

Those numbers are pretty whack. You've got 18 through Google Reader, but Feedburner says that I've got almost 500 through Google Reader and iGoogle. And Feedburner says 1,600.

Leon · 2 years ago

Nice stats. Lifehack.org has 8,625 + 4,423 (feedburner) = 13,048 readers on Google Reader. Really happy to see how blogs on the list could compete with major medias.

Craig Ritchie · 2 years ago

Is anyone creating the standard for measuring this yet?

Dave Rutledge · 2 years ago

Hmm...I guess it may trigger some debate over what qualifies as a blog, but over at Woot, it looks like we're ending up somewhere around 14k, counting the various main site ones and wine, but apparently without numbers yet for shirt and sellout.

Sarah · 2 years ago

Out of my 532 subscribers, I only have 52 readers subscribed to my feed via Google Reader, but I have 174 according to Feedburner (so does that mean 122 people have me on iGoogle?) Weird, I thought it would be the other way around.

Lee Odden · 2 years ago

toprankblog, aka, "Online Marketing Blog" has 1,952 subscribers according to Google Reader but Feedburner reports 3,613.

Joel · 2 years ago

Doesn't this basically tell us what blogs are popular with Google Reader users? How that indictitive of anything?

adam · 2 years ago

Damn.. My blog isn't in the Google Reader favorites.. Then again, I only have like 4 RSS subscribers.

-A

Rafe · 2 years ago

Do we even know if these numbers from the Google RSS subscribe function are live? I'm seeing a huge discrepancy between what Google is reporting and what Feedburner is reporting for Google RSS. Google is massively under-reporting for me, it looks like. At least that's what I prefer to believe.

I wonder how variable the Google Reader market share is from blog to blog.

Udi · 2 years ago

One important thing to remember about all of this is that certain feeds are part of the GR feed bundles. They will naturally have highly inflated subscriber counts. This leaderboard exercise is a waste of time, sorry.

http://breasy.com/blog/2007/10/15/rss-is-still-...

Danny Sullivan · 2 years ago

Mike, it's not a guess. Feedburner uses the Google Feedfetcher figure, which itself is the combination of iGoogle + Google Reader subscribers. That's why people are seeing Google Reader figures coming in lower. http://searchengineland.com/071015-033645.php explains this more, including how to get iGoogle reader figures.

noah kagan · 2 years ago

I didn't realize I was a favorite. Tear drop:) Thanks Robert!

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

If I aggregate my feeds I am up to 922 on Andybeard.eu

mickmel · 2 years ago

My main feed (Google Earth Hacks) is showing 92,592 in Reader. FeedBurner is showing a total of 94,080, so that's about right. Being a site about a Google product, I've long suspected that the vast majority were using Reader and/or iGoogle.

LOLCATZ · 2 years ago

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david lee king · 2 years ago

Wild - here are my subscriber numbers. Interesting how the numbers are so off from each other (ie., bloglines via bloglines vs feedburner):

Bloglines:
533 (via search)
173
190
531 (looking at the individual subscription)

Feedburner:
2141
735 (bloglines)
661 (Google Feedfetcher)

Google Reader:
478
478 (this shows twice for some reason)

Mark de Kock · 2 years ago

I have 136 feedreaders on my stream @ http://www.match2knowledge.nl

Mihai Parparita · 2 years ago

We've now posted on the Reader blog with more details about this:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/10/subscr...

The post mentions that the counts were slightly off until this morning, so keep that in mind when looking at lists that may be using older numbers.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

Todd Defren · 2 years ago

Interesting exercise, thanks for the tips...

I got 260 via Google Reader... 1,111 via Feedburner... but I am now just confused by Danny Sullivan's post (mentioned above: http://tinyurl.com/2lcdcl), so I think I'll just forget about subscriber #s and go get some work done.

Easton Ellsworth · 2 years ago

204 for BusinessBlogWire, out of about 650 FeedBurner subs. I'd guess that the Know More Media network has maybe 5,000-7,000 Google Reader subcribers (around 20,000 FeedBurner subs total).

Frustrated Hubby · 2 years ago

Interesting news. Now, learning how to monitize that information is something else.

sciencebase · 2 years ago

I couldn't get the Google reader values for Sciencebase but Feedburner reported about 2600 overall last time I looked, and Odiogo stats just in show I've got 1000+ podcast subscribers on top of that ;-)

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Hi5 Codes · 2 years ago

Being a webmaster myself, - I really don't like Google Reader. I like visitors coming to my own page for the content...

pchere · 2 years ago

Google reader was reporting 2321 yesterday for quickonlinetips.com and after the update is reporting 6117, which is fairly accurate by Feedburner's Google feedfetcher counts also.

mickmel · 2 years ago

Hi5 Codes -- You're being very short-sighted. If used properly, a good RSS feed will bring MORE visitors to your site. For example, I follow about 250 feeds and keep up with them every day. There is NO WAY I'd visit all 250 sites each day, but I happily click-through when I find a good item (such as the one we're on right now).

If your site found its way into my feedreader, I'd see ALL of your new content every day. Otherwise, I might visit your site once every x days, when I happen to think of it.

JWhite · 2 years ago

Hey Robert - I commented over at TC but thought it couldn't hurt to mention it here as well. My blog 'Dumb Little Man' has a Google Reader subscriber count just north of 53K.

Jay

Steph · 2 years ago

I find three different entries and two different numbers for my blog. Add them? take the biggest? Confusing.

See screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/bunny/1576284018/

smsfreaks · 2 years ago

I got 51 via Google Reader..but i have no idea about Feedburner...

M Freitas · 2 years ago

Hmmm... With updated numbers we 2,306 on www.geekzone.co.nz...

Jeff Atwood · 2 years ago

Ain't there no love in the 'hood for poor old Coding Horror? Et tu, Scoble!

I have 32,379 subscribers by this metric, which means I am now officially more important than the front page of the New York Times!

TAKE THAT GRAY LADY!

2.0weblogs.net/work · 2 years ago

Cool, i just finally broke down and set up Google reader, i was using a mac-based system, but the ubiquity of google is equity for everybody... i kind of sound like a sales rep, yikes! Anyway, it is a nice service, i just wish it looked nicer instead of the baby blue nightmare scheme.

-Americo
http://ThunkDifferent.com

Samuel Goh Kim Eng · 2 years ago

It's my prayer that bloggers are not in the number game
Just for the sake of being famous, well known and getting fame
What else do we have but advanced computer technology to really blame
For getting all bloggers everywhere all rather worked up with the numbering flame
(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng Tue. 16th Oct. 2007
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com

ersin · 1 year ago

Interesting news. Now, learning how to monitize that information is something else.

güvenlik · 1 year ago

Cool, i just finally broke down and set up Google reader, i was using a mac-based system, but the ubiquity of google is equity for everybody…

ankraj · 1 year ago

I thought it would be interesting to check out some the RSS feeds at eclipse.org. As a reminder.