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#1 2007-01-03 17:24:06

hilary
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Rss feed: number of readers?

Hi guys!
How can I check how many people have subscribed to my rss feed please?
Hilary

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#2 2007-01-03 17:43:11

jm
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

You can sign up for a free Feedburner account – basically a stats application for your feed.

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#3 2007-01-04 10:03:37

hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Hi Jm!
Thanks for the reply!
I took a look at that, and I see that it ‘takes over’ the feed, and it will have a new url afterwards aswell? Im not too sure I want to hand it over to someone else who can put advertising on it at all!!!
I was hoping there was a link or a plugin in textpattern that would show me how many readers I have.. does that exist at all? Or is there any other stats application that doesnt take over the feed?

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#4 2007-01-04 11:36:46

jm
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Though I haven’t used it, maybe Mint or Google Analytics can record feed subscriptions?

Regarding Feedburner – it doesn’t place ads on your feed (example). You can redirect your TXP feeds easily too. So if a user goes to site.com/rss, they’ll be automatically redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/sitename. Feedburner widgets generate those “0.1 Subscribers!” buttons on blogs (think they call them chicklets or something).

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#5 2007-01-04 11:39:49

hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Mmm, I checked in google analytics yesterday and didnt find anything..
Feedburner is sounding like the only way.. I must get over my fear :)
Thanks a mill for your help!
Hilary

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#6 2007-01-04 12:12:23

hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Ok, I took the plunge!
Its still ‘checking the bubble wrap’, but I should have stats soon :)
Im glad I did that now, I dont know much about feeds yet, its about time I figured the whole thing out!!
Thanks again!

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#7 2007-01-04 18:58:12

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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

you may try slimstat too. free and open source. There is a txp plugin for it as well


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#8 2007-01-04 19:04:03

jm
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Slimstat records feed stats too?

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#9 2007-01-04 19:48:04

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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

it records hits to /rss /atom… yes


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#10 2007-01-04 20:25:33

jm
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Nice! I’m going to go reinstall it (haven’t used it in a long time).

Last edited by jm (2007-01-04 20:25:56)

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#11 2007-01-04 20:34:07

hcgtv
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

colak wrote:

it records hits to /rss /atom… yes

AWStats does this as well.

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#12 2007-01-05 09:23:53

hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?

Nice, Im going to try slimstats instead, the page they give you on feedburner looks awful, I love the look of the textpattern one…

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