Comments on: I’ve got a dirty little RSS secret

By: Twanna // FUNKY BROWN CHICK

Twanna // FUNKY BROWN CHICK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:57 +0000

Welcome to Feedburner!! I signed up with up a while ago and I’m kind of in love with it. Would love to hear what you think about it!

Pssst! I subscribe to your feed & lurk your blog all the time.

By: Mark Ng

Mark Ng — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:01:18 +0000

Feedburner should be able to tell how many people are subscribed to a feed via google reader as Google reader sends the number of subscribers to your feed in the user agent string (or at least did last time I checked). Whether or not Feedburner use that information or not, I’m not sure.

By: Vero

Vero — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:56:52 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Martin. The figures Google reports should be fairly accurate, according to FeedBurner's post from Feb 07. It's best to use these stats as a guide to your traffic figures, rather than an exact science, but it's still a very useful measure for reader loyalty.

By: MartinSFP

MartinSFP — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:08 +0000

I’ve found Feedburner to be mostly reliable except with my current main blog. The subscriber numbers seem to be lower than the number of unique clickthroughs I get from Google Reader etc in my stats. Still, it’s a really useful tool!