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 5:20 pm
Where is this feature? I can’t seem to find it anywhere…do I have to turn it on? Or is it not yet active on WordPress in general?
Jan 12th at 5:21 pm
To see that graph you click on the little graph icon next to the post title on your “Top Posts and Pages” table in your blog stats. It’s been activated for everyone since the blog post.
Jan 12th at 5:30 pm
ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!
Jan 12th at 5:36 pm
Yeah!! I have really missed that feature & am so glad to see you bringing it back. Thank you!!!!!
Jan 12th at 5:41 pm
Awesome. Keep the stats advancements coming!
Jan 12th at 5:49 pm
This sounds as though it could have potential for being useful information. However, there doesn’t seem to be much difference in the on-site views and the syndicated views as presented on the above graph, does this data display a graph where the syndicated line ever appears as less than the on-site views? or shall it only appear as above the on-site views?
I’m certain with some tweaking it could be made more useful, but it’s still more data on syndication than we had before, and that is appreciated!
-C
Jan 12th at 6:39 pm
eyes are open!
Jan 12th at 8:08 pm
Looking forward to this!!!
Jan 12th at 9:02 pm
It’s going to be a fantastic feature! Nice job, m8s!
Jan 12th at 9:24 pm
Thank you for this. Those are some stats I’ve been wanting to see.
Jan 12th at 9:26 pm
Great idea.
Jan 12th at 9:55 pm
It is finally back! Missed it so much…
I believe more and more people are reaching out to other by feeds, so, thumb up!
Jan 12th at 11:44 pm
WOW! GREAT JOB GUYS!!!
Jan 13th at 12:44 am
That’s nice. I’ve been manual comparing the stats in Feedburner and the stats in WordPress to get a total for the views of my postings. Hopefully this eliminates that separate step. I’ll continue to compare the feedburner status over the next couple of weeks to see how the syndicated views #s compare to those in feedburner.
Jan 13th at 12:50 am
nice, I missed them !
Jan 13th at 1:27 am
It is more prudent. I would like this!
Jan 13th at 2:32 am
Thanks – so cool. Although I’m on an intermission period.
Jan 13th at 3:27 am
Oh! It’s stacked!
Just like raincoaster, I thought you had more Syndicated than onsite views. Perhaps some users might be misguided… How about non-stacked view too? Like, Syndicated views starting from the very bottom?
Anyway, like I said — great feature, I’m glad the stats are improving.
(gosh I’d like unique/returning visitors…)
Cheers!
Jan 13th at 3:51 am
Nah, gitu dong.
Jan 13th at 3:56 am
YYAAAAAAYYYY!!! Thanks guys! I was totally begging for Feed Stats, and now you’ve done even better… love it.
Jan 13th at 4:02 am
Would be nice if you told us where we could view this amazing new tool!!!!
Jan 13th at 4:28 am
sounds good i was disappointed when the feed stats went away i hoped they would come back
Jan 13th at 4:34 am
Very nice!
Jan 13th at 4:52 am
thank you. I’m just a tiny bit bored,,, a bit more than I used to be and these stats should take up that slack time that I’m dealing with… sitting at my desk wondering which web stats I should look at now.
glad to see them back.
jb
Jan 13th at 10:39 am
Thanks! Keep it up.
Jan 13th at 11:15 am
Horeeee. Thank You so much Andy.
Jan 13th at 11:27 am
very cool…
Jan 13th at 1:35 pm
Awsome!
Jan 13th at 2:44 pm
Well done!
Jan 13th at 3:29 pm
Cool!
Is this feature counting the feedburner subscribers of a wordprees.com blog?
Jan 13th at 4:08 pm
Awesome
Jan 13th at 6:03 pm
I missed my feed stats! Thank you so much for bringing them back – and better than ever at that!
Jan 13th at 7:29 pm
Very nice addition!
Thanks for including this feature I had missed RSS feed. Now we can see where our readers are coming from on an easy to read graph. —-Zentraveler
Jan 13th at 8:13 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve missed the feed stat info….
Jan 13th at 10:21 pm
nice work! I like it
Jan 13th at 11:02 pm
I always wanted to know which one of my 3 viewers was via feed. Awesome!
Jan 14th at 1:03 am
Waiting for this new feature, Good Work WP Team.
Jan 14th at 1:43 am
Thanks a ton.
Jan 14th at 3:30 am
For those who can’t find it…
MANAGE->POSTS->Individual Post: Stats.
Jan 14th at 4:42 am
i don’t think it’s on the Stats page on the dashboard, rather if you goto “Manage”, there’s a little graph icon next to each post. Click that.
Jan 14th at 5:45 am
Yooo… You serve us better and better everyday… Ta v much…
Jan 14th at 7:29 am
just if this change came a little earlier
Jan 14th at 7:53 am
very nice !
Jan 14th at 7:57 am
You guys rock, seriously. And Support and innovation have been consistent. It’s much appreciated
Jan 14th at 8:28 am
Very sweet feature! Thanks wordpress.
Jan 14th at 10:30 am
Can’t find it anywhere. Is that available for all users now, or it will be implemented soon?
Jan 14th at 11:36 am
That’ll be so cool!
Jan 14th at 11:41 am
Oh god! I sorely miss feed stats! Bring it back!:’(
Jan 14th at 12:09 pm
That is great! and long awaited
Jan 14th at 12:35 pm
Excellent – I look forward to exploring the stats. Thanks WP folks!
Jan 14th at 2:56 pm
Yes! It’s finaly back!
Jan 14th at 5:22 pm
Really thanks
I have 2 suggestion:
1. Please show our feed sates on our “Blog Stats” in “Dashboard”.
2. Please make a widget to let us show our blog feed readers in the sidbar of our blog.
Happy blogging
Jan 14th at 5:24 pm
You’ve been doing an excelent and fantastic job. Thanks!
Jan 14th at 6:22 pm
An excellent idea! I’m always curious to know how many are reading me from “the outside.”
Thank you for your continued hard work on behalf of WP.com subscribers.:)
Jan 14th at 6:55 pm
cool! i’ll have to check that out!!! *oP
Jan 14th at 7:29 pm
I really missed my feed stats. Thanks for bringing them back!
Jan 14th at 8:15 pm
Wonderful! I always wondered if feed views were counted… I noticed the change when it happened. Thanks for explaining;
Jan 14th at 8:29 pm
Great. Now I need a support group for that addiction too.
Jan 14th at 9:10 pm
I give. For the life of me, I can’t find out how to turn this on. Can you help?
Jan 14th at 9:45 pm
Wonderful! Thank you. I’ve been waiting for this a long time.
Jan 15th at 12:26 am
Ooo very nice.
Jan 15th at 2:40 am
I like this!
Jan 15th at 3:13 am
this is great it will help us track our post …
Jan 15th at 4:44 am
Gotta love syndication!
Jan 15th at 4:53 am
very.. very.. very.. good, so i can view alltime
good job brother 
Jan 15th at 5:32 am
Yay.
Jan 15th at 9:52 am
This is great! Have really missed the feed stats ever since they were pulled. This gives so much more precise information!
Jan 15th at 10:27 am
wow… wonderful
Jan 15th at 11:38 am
Yeah, feed stats!
Jan 15th at 2:40 pm
yeah I love that feature.. its great to see the mountain of views peak
or fall in my case.haha
Jan 15th at 4:22 pm
woohoo!!!!!!!
Jan 15th at 6:00 pm
Sweet! It’d be *great* to have the feed stats back!
Jan 15th at 7:41 pm
Smooth!
Jan 15th at 8:12 pm
I haven’t followed this all that closely but was there ever a point where we got a substantive explanation as to why the feed stats were just removed in the first place?
Jan 15th at 8:47 pm
Awesome…now where do I find this feature on my dashboard?
Jan 15th at 8:56 pm
very nice indeed
Jan 15th at 9:17 pm
sweet! Thanks!
Jan 16th at 12:37 am
Oh man! Oh man! Oh man! I can’t wait for this feature…
Jan 16th at 2:12 am
Very nice.
Jan 16th at 10:30 am
Nice job again, thanks !!!
Jan 16th at 11:28 am
Awesome! And the “bringing back those things bit by bit, and some more stuff you haven’t imagined yet” part sounds delicious!
Just what kind of new features do you mean(besides adding more themes to select from)? Thanks for caring about the user`s experience!
Jan 16th at 4:05 pm
verry nice!
Jan 17th at 2:38 am
Wow… Great feature!!
Thanks for doing such great work and always improving the free service
Jan 17th at 2:54 pm
Thanks! Very cool features, but i’d rather see the overall feed stats… I miss them!
BTW, are you panning on counting comments as well?
Jan 17th at 3:15 pm
That is awesome Andy. You sly devil!
Jan 18th at 3:32 am
Cool
Jan 18th at 9:48 am
thank you!
Jan 18th at 6:36 pm
This mean that the readership for feed is slightly more than on-site. Also showing that the readership is dropping down since new year. Look like people read alot during the new year days. Maybe reading friend’s where about and doing?
Jan 18th at 6:59 pm
That’s a really great feature! I always wondered how I could tell how many feed views my blog was getting, and now I know. Thanks!
Jan 19th at 12:47 am
Jan 19th at 4:37 am
Very cool.
Jan 19th at 3:15 pm
Just a Big Thank You, Great !.
Jan 20th at 5:49 am
Hey thanks
I needed dat
Jan 20th at 6:10 am
Not half bad stats! Currently I am looking at some huge traffic spikes, always a good thing!