Feed Stats Strikes Back
You may remember Feed Stats: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: a way to track syndicated views on each post.
By “syndicated views” we mean the number of times somebody viewed your post via a feed. We’ll call views taking place on your blog “on-site views”.
We have been collecting data for several weeks and it’s time to show it. Here we have the first manifestation of Syndicated Views, which appears on the graph for each post. It reminds me of frosting on a cake:
Yum! We’re working on more ways to show this new data so keep your eyes peeled.
Posted: Saturday, January 12th, 2008 at 12:45 am. Filed in Features, New Features, Stats, WordPress.com.
Tags: charts, Feeds, syndication
Jan 12th at 1:24 am
This looks to be very cool. Thanks!
Jan 12th at 1:35 am
Awesome… rock on WP.
Jan 12th at 1:36 am
where can I find it in the dashboard?
Jan 12th at 1:45 am
Nice!
Jan 12th at 1:46 am
Wunderbar! I was always sad to lose the feed stats, and am very glad to see this new feature
. When/how will we be able to use it?
PS any plans to count unique, returning visitors as well as page views?
Jan 12th at 1:47 am
Dave On Fire, we’re bringing back those things bit by bit, and some more stuff you haven’t imagined yet.
Jan 12th at 1:55 am
CoOl!!!
Jan 12th at 2:00 am
Brilliant. Thanks.
Jan 12th at 2:09 am
Wicked idea! This is so cool!
Jan 12th at 2:09 am
Lol. Great feature!!
Jan 12th at 2:21 am
Awesome! Thanks for doing this, I always wondered how many I got with RSS. I’m a young WordPress user so I’ve never used it.
Jan 12th at 2:30 am
my stats are back ?? thats awesome !
tx guys and keep it on !
Jan 12th at 2:42 am
This is a great feature. Although I’d really like it if there was an easy way to just view the raw numbers. I mean, what if your syndicated hits are lower than your site hits?
Jan 12th at 3:13 am
Hey, that IS cool.
Ok. Now what do I do with this info or make the syndicated feeds more prominent?
Jan 12th at 3:16 am
wow matts this is great,now actualy i cn know how many people hv visited ma each post,kisssssssss to all u team guys and gals to ofcourse:)
Jan 12th at 3:17 am
You say feed stats, I say Thank you very much!
Seems like you folks are working on these stats quite a bit, right?
Jan 12th at 3:19 am
wonderful feature, nice. i am expecting more features.
Jan 12th at 3:24 am
Cool! Ty Donncha n’ WP!
Jan 12th at 3:40 am
Thats awesome!!!!!
Adam G
Jan 12th at 3:41 am
Cool! Thanks WordPress!
~Adam
I Heart WordPress. <3
Jan 12th at 3:43 am
it is cool
Jan 12th at 3:51 am
It’s not ready yet? You’re just teasing us?
Want now!
Jan 12th at 3:52 am
cooooool !!!! will look for some more features here… :with feed stats..
Jan 12th at 3:54 am
That’s pretty cool! Just tried it out.
Thank you
Jan 12th at 3:59 am
Very nice addition, Thank you
Jan 12th at 4:06 am
What’s the use of this feature? Just to make our heads bigger, hey! LOL, anywyas, features that can’t be even thought of by a laymen, you guys already incorporate them to the wordpress application….. Kudos!
Jan 12th at 4:11 am
I was really hoping that this idea would return. Feedburner hasn’t tracked anything for me in the two months I had it. -_-
Thanks a bunch, WP!
Jan 12th at 4:16 am
You guys rock. Keep the good stuff coming.
It is no wonder I vote for you on the Crunchies daily.
Luke
Jan 12th at 4:28 am
Will this be available with wordpress.com stats plugin users as well on just blogs on wordpress.com?
Trent
Jan 12th at 4:28 am
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Jan 12th at 4:29 am
Trent, no plans for it currently on the stats plugin, but because of the way it works now it’s definitely something we could do in the future.
Jan 12th at 4:41 am
hey, thats really wonderfull,i had always wanted something like this
Jan 12th at 5:11 am
Perfect! I love this feature.
Jan 12th at 5:32 am
Wait… how do I read this? Does it mean that you have more feed readers than onsite readers, or do you only count the “margin?” I mean, was your top feed stat closer to 3100 hits or closer to 300?
Jan 12th at 5:33 am
raincoaster, it’s a stacked graph. So in the picture above there’s way more on-site readers than feed readers.
Jan 12th at 5:44 am
That’s cool! Keep writing everyone.
Jan 12th at 5:47 am
Thanks guys! (yet once more)
Jan 12th at 5:52 am
Great , just what i expecting for…
many thanks Andy
Jan 12th at 5:56 am
Oh lord! I think I’m gonna have an organism! You guys rule! Thank You X 100. I’m going to roll around in my frosting as soon as I see it the first time!
Jan 12th at 6:13 am
Thank yo so much for doing this…I missed feed stats so much when you took them away. This is great. Even better actually.
Jan 12th at 6:13 am
Wow! That would be a neat addition to blog stats.
Jan 12th at 6:20 am
Wow! It’s great!
Jan 12th at 6:28 am
What about simple bars, or the option to have it display as simple bars?
Jan 12th at 6:38 am
I like this! I don’t see how to access this yet on my site!
Jan 12th at 6:40 am
I love feed stats. Very sexy.
Jan 12th at 6:52 am
Fantastic!!! I was surprised when that feature was discontinued.
Jan 12th at 7:05 am
Yay! Thank you so much…I’ve really missed it.
I knew there was a reason I voted for you guys!
Jan 12th at 7:12 am
wow, nice, brilliant. Waiting for more, now.
Jan 12th at 7:59 am
That is useful. I like it.
Jan 12th at 8:00 am
Yay! That’s great!
Jan 12th at 8:10 am
Kool let me try
Jan 12th at 8:21 am
Let’s look how it works:)
Jan 12th at 8:26 am
I was very sorry to see feed stats go I would like to see that come back.
Jan 12th at 8:35 am
Nice, good job.
Jan 12th at 8:56 am
One of the best news i’ve heard recently. I’m really happy to have feed stats back.
¡Enhorabuena, chicos!
Jan 12th at 9:15 am
Maybe you show syndicated and on-site views one above the other. The sum will make small blogs like mine look a little more impressive – at least to me
Jan 12th at 9:18 am
Super
Jan 12th at 9:32 am
Is this cool? I think this is cool…
What I love about you guys is that you make it all so easy for small fries like me!
Ich blogge auf deutsch. I blog in German.
Jan 12th at 9:43 am
Looks promising.I had wondered if feed stats would return in one form or another. Ta for the preview.
Jan 12th at 9:44 am
Wow, really cool! It’s great to have this feature back: it provides a much more informative view on the actual reach of one’s posts. It would be simply perfect if syndicated views could be also aggregated for the whole blog. I hope you consider this as a future extension. In the mean time, thank you for this new improvement!
Jan 12th at 9:47 am
Cool, Just what i wanted.
Any way could you like add bookmark it buttons to the end of each post on each blog as a little extra?
Jan 12th at 9:51 am
Nice!
Thank you!
Jan 12th at 10:05 am
Good idea!
I take it that it’s not active yet, though?
Jan 12th at 10:17 am
o for awesome !
Jan 12th at 10:48 am
Wow! That’s cool, thanks! :]
Jan 12th at 10:51 am
Now that’s nifty!
T- xx
Jan 12th at 11:05 am
Yessss, I wants it!
Jan 12th at 11:11 am
Just what I’ve been looking forward to … Thanks!
Jan 12th at 11:17 am
Nice !
Always helping with new features !
Thanks so much.
Jan 12th at 11:30 am
You guys at WordPress are awesome. Always willing to give better stuff. Thank you so much. Yes, we are opening our eyes. Looking forward for this feature.
Jan 12th at 11:49 am
I guess this feature is icing on the wonderful wordpress cake!
Jan 12th at 12:11 pm
Jan 12th at 12:27 pm
BEST news –BEST feature I’ve seen since Feed Stats vanished. I don’t even care that the legend is positioned over long headlines. Brilliant, Donncha. Thanks to all involved. Well done. So good, guess I’ll stay, now. (–Left-overs from August melt-down still makes blogging difficult.)
Jan 12th at 12:32 pm
Excellent resource!
Thanks WP =)
Jan 12th at 12:42 pm
This is cool. Thanks guys, it would be cool to integrate Feedburner into these stats too.
Jan 12th at 12:50 pm
Yay! How exciting! I was just thinking about how it would be great to be able to see if anyone was using the feed to view my posts. Hurray!
Jan 12th at 1:08 pm
Is the syndicated line just layered on top of the onsite ones? Or is it actually larger?
In other words, which is bigger in this example, on-site or syndicated.
It’s not clear.
Jan 12th at 1:13 pm
cool features
thanks andy
Jan 12th at 1:25 pm
Wow..Cool,
Thanks Matt
Jan 12th at 1:35 pm
Cool. I was really sad when you dropped feedstats. This sounds really promising. Can’t wait to see it in action.
Jan 12th at 2:01 pm
I was waiting for this moment
Jan 12th at 2:19 pm
So, what’s the graph saying? Is it that the vast majority of vists were on-site OR that on-site and syndicated were more or less 50-50 with a slight advantage to syndicated?
Tom
Jan 12th at 2:54 pm
Ooh, very cool!
Jan 12th at 2:56 pm
Awesome.
Jan 12th at 3:00 pm
I’m glad that wordpress is constantly adding great new features.
Jan 12th at 3:08 pm
I think that the figure you show is a bit confusing; is the number of syndicated views represented only by the thin strip of light blue shading (so that to get the actual number of syndicated views you have to subtract the on-site views from the total views for any date), or is the number of syndicated views greater than the number of on-site views, but follows a similar distribution?
Jan 12th at 3:19 pm
Hey guys, this isn’t showing up in my stats yet… do I need to do something different to access this feature?
Jan 12th at 3:46 pm
Can I sign up to beta test it? Please! I can’t wait
Jan 12th at 4:01 pm
Cool!
Jan 12th at 4:02 pm
Thanks for re-introducing this feature! I’ve got many feed subscribers and was really delighted to find out how many read my post via a feed.
Jan 12th at 4:13 pm
Wow you guys rock. I love WordPress!
Jan 12th at 4:32 pm
Thank you. Feed Stats was one reason I had to start using Feedburner. A few questions though:
1. At this point of time, it seems that they are available only for individual posts. Do you intend to make blog wide stats available?
2. I really doubt this, but do you track if people view the blog from the feedburner feed?
3. Do you intend to support Blogger-like feed redirection (to feedburner say) anytime soon?
Jan 12th at 4:33 pm
1. Yes.
2. If Feedburner leaves our pixel in, yes.
3. No.
Jan 12th at 4:36 pm
Now that is a stat I would really appreciate having for the blog. Much more realistic than plain feed subscriptions.
Jan 12th at 4:41 pm
that is really cool. i know that helps me a lot. thanks!
Jan 12th at 4:52 pm
Sounds great!
Jan 12th at 4:56 pm
Frosting indeed!
The information looks yummy!
Jan 12th at 5:08 pm
and this is good because…
never mind, it’s just that it is of no use to me, I’m afraid