Comments on: Why does my Feedburner Subscriber Count Fluctuate?

By: Aswani

Aswani — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:08:16 +0000

This has happened to my blog quite often and again. Recently, my feedburner subscribers went from 114 to 40. I couldn’t believe it. This was so disturbing for me. Now after reading your post, I have come to know the real reason behind this dropped count. hope its all well with my feedburner count.

Thank you so much for this wonderful post.

By: lvlc @ FromMomToMom

lvlc @ FromMomToMom — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:05:32 +0000

ohhhhhhhhhh that’s why I have just 15 readers so far… because the other 1k is not checking their readers! ;) hahaha

By: Deya Bautista

Deya Bautista — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:37:25 +0000

This article helps me understand better the fluctuations, many times happened that my reader count dropped almost by half. But today, especially, it went from 142 to just 46. Whew! I thought their system crashed in the last two days…or something.
Thanks for the clarification!

By: Sunshinemom

Sunshinemom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:01:34 +0000

Hey! Thanks for this. Mine dropped from 120 to 86 and I wondered whether it was something to do with the way I am writing or stuff I am presenting. I might never know but I will console myself thinking it is because its a festive season and people are not accessing their feed:)

By: Germán

Germán — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:50:51 +0000

My blog passed from 190 to 71 subscribers in one night :(, I hope that’s the reason.

Thanks.

By: sonal

sonal — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:44:34 +0000

Hi, Does feedburner only show subscribers that have subscribed to your post on that very day?

because i know some 5 friends who have subscribed to my feed, but the feedburner shows me 0 or 1 depending on how may have subscribed on ‘that’ very day!
*confused*

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:03:58 +0000

It’s not possible to get realistic ‘live feed users’ count as feedburner mostly show 1 day delayed information. I wonder why they can’t do something like last 1 week average and show that.

I personally feel that showing total number or subscriptions or current one week average will make more sense

Ajith

By: Noobpreneur

Noobpreneur — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:23:15 +0000

Darren,

Thanks for answering my life long question :D

Cheers!

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:36:20 +0000

Yea we have this problem all the time. Now our subscriber count is just not working right at all.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:53:13 +0000

Excellent post, thanks!

I just started a blog with feedburner stats on there. I am still pretty confused how it works. Since the site is only a few weeks old, my numbers are small (ok… really small) but the advantage is that I should be able to see them change easier.

For example… I have 7 email subscribers, but on my page it shows I have a total of 3 readers….

It is sort of confusing to me. Thought maybe it was only updated once a day or something.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:39:44 +0000

Very informative post! I checked my FeedBurner today and noticed that I had quite a drop in subscribers. As I was searching for why this had occurred, I stumbled across this post, and now all of my questions are answered. Thanks!

By: Geoff R

Geoff R — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:14:18 +0000

I have always found it peculiar about how people obsess over the fluctuations in their feed counts. Personally, I find it too much of a hassle to worry about the natural changes that occur each week, so I usually track my progress via the weekly average.

Still, thanks for finally laying it out plain for everyone to see. This is something all feedburner users should read.

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:30:19 +0000

I kinda wondered the same thing too

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:13:50 +0000

Well, here on the east coast of the US, we had a big storm.. I’m sure a lot of people had outages or just shut off to avoid crashes..

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:54:11 +0000

This is basically what I suspected was going on. However, this week I’ve held high at 2700 give or take a dozen all week then today, count has dropped to just over 2000. I checked a few other blogs and they all seem to have taken this big hit. Is that just the Saturday effect or has something bigger happened this weekend because it’s November ;-)

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:57:46 +0000

One day, my feedburner count was at 6 readers. Then, the next day, it was dfown to 2. Finally dropping to 1. Then back steadily at 2. I thought that was weird too

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:50:02 +0000

In the context of your other article about full or partial feeds is this interesting quote about reach:

“Unlike the subscriber number, which may be representative of people who indicated an interest in your content but who do not actually read it, Reach reports on just the items that were viewed in aggregators or the clicks that drove traffic back to the publisher’s site. As a result, it represents a much more accurate picture of the engagement a feed’s audience enjoys, while the subscriber number represents the total audience who’s expressed an interest in the content.”

By: Cuckoo

Cuckoo — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:58:52 +0000

I knew the reason of fluctuation. I was more interested to know if we can find out who all are subscribing to our blogs.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:16:01 +0000

I did a search inquiry and later came here. I’ve posted a link to this subject, much obliged for your digging and going to the source for the answer. Also like the new design, especially the comments section, not as busy. I have always learned so much from the comments along with the always timely articles. Much thanks.

By: elamb

elamb — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:01:50 +0000

Feedburner gives me steady traffic. I guess I should get smart on it.