Feed Stats Now Live
We've got a little bit of a surprise for you this Friday. For the past month or so we've been tracking traffic to your RSS feeds just like we track stats for your normal pages.
Now RSS feeds are a little tricky, because even though they may get 3-5 times the amount of raw traffic that your normal blogs, it's often aggregators that check the feed every 30 minutes or hour automatically. So the real metric for feeds is subscribers, or an idea of how many people are tracking the new things you write. There is a little bit of voodoo in getting this number, but we feel like we have a pretty good grip on it, and our data is getting better as time goes on.
Under your dashboard you'll now see a new tab, "Feed Stats." Under this it'll show you the rough number of unique people who checked your feed that day, and what's the breakdown of aggregators like Bloglines and FeedDemon people are using to track your RSS feeds.
Across all of WordPress.com, there are about 66 to 70 thousand subscribers to the various root feeds for all our blogs, yet these people generated 17.5 million hits in March. Whew!
Check out your stats and who's subscribing to your feed. If it's too low, it might be worth doing a post encouraging people to add your RSS feed (which is at yourblog.wordpress.com/feed/) to their aggregator. If your subscriber stats bounce around a lot, it's probably due to your posting frequency or the number of web browsers polling your feed.
Apr 15th at 12:36 am
great
Apr 15th at 1:26 am
niiiiiiiiiiice!
Apr 15th at 1:45 am
hey, really great, i didn’t knew that someone suscribed to me at all
Apr 15th at 1:53 am
nice!
Apr 15th at 2:02 am
Yipeee… I had no idea that someone subscribed to me either.
Makes all my rants worth while
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Apr 15th at 2:38 am
You guys rock! This is very useful, never had a chance to properly use feedburner
Apr 15th at 2:47 am
Very useful, cool!
Apr 15th at 2:48 am
Make way for the Feed Stats widget
Apr 15th at 3:58 am
It’s a total surprise for me as well. It’s great to know how many people are actually reading your feeds through aggregators. I had just started using FeedBurner for the fact that it gives this informatiom, but I guess I will have to switch back to WordPress.
The WordPress admins are really cracking at improvements this Friday. What’s up, guys? Give us a break! Incredible speed.
Apr 15th at 3:59 am
Forgot to say that I didn’t know whether anyone was reading my feeds at all.
Apr 15th at 4:17 am
Something seems buggy for me…14 people read my feed today…then my stats page shows 14 views today…8 of which are from search engine traffic…6 from referrers..so does that mean that there were an additional 14 people who read my feed today?
28 in total?
I apologize if I’m missing the obvious answer here
Apr 15th at 4:39 am
very cool. very handy.
Apr 15th at 5:10 am
That helped a lot. Thanx a lot. I still want the daily poll widget, could you guys work on that…
Apr 15th at 7:04 am
nice. got 5 ppl read my feed
Apr 15th at 7:29 am
This is great, thanks! And congrats on the funding, while we’re at it…
Apr 15th at 8:50 am
Excellent feature. What a nice surprise. Question, though– On my pie chart, I mouse-over the three pieces of pie and the %’s add up to 450%. Could this be a bug?
Apr 15th at 9:48 am
WOW, this is amazing! Thank you!
Apr 15th at 10:24 am
Oh, I’m not into the whole readership thing at all (grinning)!
Really, what a lovely surprise! Thanks.
Apr 15th at 10:38 am
You are simply the best … and still improving!
Apr 15th at 11:10 am
I was waiting these stats for months! Thanks!
Apr 15th at 11:29 am
Cool one … love this one.
Apr 15th at 3:26 pm
I kinda think it’s really off. It shows too many readers/subscribers.
I have a question – that figure is the number of subscribers??
Also, will my Feedburner feed’s stats be added? As it depends on mine!
Apr 15th at 3:55 pm
How do I enable it in my hosted account?
Thank you
Apr 15th at 8:04 pm
I’ve always wondered about the trickyness about having RSS feed stats, but you guys did it! This along with the regular blog stats gives a nice estimate of regular visitors.
Thanks!
Apr 16th at 1:00 am
It’s nice to know that there are people who read my blogs. =3
Apr 16th at 7:47 am
Thanks, is good idea!
Apr 17th at 2:11 am
Nice! I’ve been waiting to see something like this for a while, but it seemed like nobody was up to tackling the logistics of it. I should’ve known better than to underestimate to WP crew.
Apr 17th at 4:21 am
It’s great! I like it.
Apr 17th at 5:08 am
Thanks for this.
Apr 17th at 10:56 am
Thanks too!
Apr 17th at 11:27 am
2 new features in a day (this as well as flickr widget). This is great.
Apr 17th at 7:02 pm
Hats off guys..keep rocking
Apr 18th at 8:13 am
feeds stats are great tx for putting up
Apr 18th at 6:37 pm
I got to play around with it a little more, but it seems like a cool tool.
Apr 18th at 9:31 pm
Thanks, such a nifty feature!
Apr 20th at 6:56 pm
This is great! Thanks.
Apr 21st at 9:47 am
now this is zingy! It would be great if you could stardize the colours for the feed readers i.e atleast prominent ones in the pie-chart
Apr 21st at 6:46 pm
That’s really nice, I never thought anyone subscribed to my feed. But I still think you guys need to work on making the widget features availabled for all the themes. Especially pool.
Apr 25th at 1:57 am
cool
Apr 26th at 6:38 pm
Please create for hosted blogs too.
Apr 27th at 10:37 am
Love It!
Apr 28th at 5:23 am
This is a heavily cool new feature but I haven’t fully figured it out. Checking the stats is easy but how do we check to see who the subscribers are?
May 2nd at 3:25 pm
How do Ì get one of those page statistics? I have tryed to get one but it doesnt work!!!
May 3rd at 1:42 pm
Long live the world of free loving 1s and 0s!!!!
May 5th at 12:03 pm
Nice
May 16th at 9:33 pm
Its wonderful!!!
Aug 29th at 8:15 pm
this is amazing. one of the reasons i chose wordpress.com over other blogging options
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