Written on December 2nd, 2007 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
How many RSS Readers does your Blog have? [POLL]
How many RSS readers does your blog have? (your biggest blog - if you have more than one)
This is the question for this week’s reader poll currently running in the sidebar.
It’s a question that some won’t be able to answer (so I’ve included an ‘I don’t know’ option if they don’t have access to Feedburner stats - but I figure there are enough blogs running their feeds via Feedburner these days that we should get some decent results.
I am looking forward to seeing the results on this one.
PS: if you’re looking for information on how to increase the number of RSS readers to your blog and how to optimize your feed you might enough my previous series of posts - How to make Your RSS feeds POP!. Also during the next week I’ve got a couple of posts that will extend this series a little further - stay tune.
59 Responses to “How many RSS Readers does your Blog have? [POLL]”
Fanatyk
December 2nd, 2007 8:05 am
Right now it’s about 450 but it’s polish blog so my readers come only from Poland :)
I’m thinking about en English version of it.
Shark Girl
December 2nd, 2007 8:14 am
Does feedburner capture all the feeds? I don’t understand its charts because it jumps so quickly. Like one day it shows one figure, then later in the same day, something like 10 or 12 will drop off. Then it jumps back up. I wouldn’t think readers would fluctuate that much in one day.
Lily
December 2nd, 2007 8:23 am
@ Shark Girl:
Mine does that too. It’s a different number almost every day.
PlasticPilot
December 2nd, 2007 8:34 am
Why am I the 3rd to comment, but only the 1st to answer the poll ?
So for the time being, 100% votes for 1-100… I love stats !
Chris Jacobson
December 2nd, 2007 8:34 am
About 130-180… it varies between days and sometimes spikes way up and then goes way down.
wordvixen
December 2nd, 2007 8:37 am
plasticpilot- That’s odd. I just voted and the poll is telling me that I’m the only vote so far. Maybe a glitch?
10KPortfolio
December 2nd, 2007 8:40 am
My RSS readers are growing by the week :) Hopefully I can break 1,000 mark within a few months.
Tyler
December 2nd, 2007 8:48 am
A little over 300, started the site in may.
Jorge L.
December 2nd, 2007 8:48 am
Darren, which plugin do you use for running the polls?
Levois
December 2nd, 2007 9:00 am
I’m in the majority it appears 0-100.
~Dawn
December 2nd, 2007 9:08 am
I find it interesting how many people view feedburner to be so important. I also have set up for emails to go out when I update as well as a weekly newsletter that goes over what has been posted for the last week.
Dave
December 2nd, 2007 9:10 am
@Shark Girl: FeedBurner’s number should only change once a day (at 3am Eastern for the chicklet and 5am for the stats interface). You might not be looking at the right thing.
Shark Girl
December 2nd, 2007 9:15 am
You’re probably right Dave. I don’t know how to use it, or read it. I wish it would tell me who my readers are. All I see are what rss reader they’re using, but I don’t know who my readers are. Does anyone know unless they tell you or make a comment on your blog?
I’m relatively new to blogging and have just recently installed feed burner. I was hoping to be able to see who my subscribers are, but I guess no one really knows do they?
Mairo Vergara
December 2nd, 2007 9:29 am
My Blog is about japanese language learning and I have about 40 RSS readers… not so much.
Joe
December 2nd, 2007 9:34 am
Hey Darren,
Does this include e-mail subscribers? I am planning on a post for Monday re: Not forgetting e-mail subscribers. There are quite a few bloggers (including some prominent ones) that don’t even offer e-mail to readers.
I did include those readers in my answer. :-)
Zach
December 2nd, 2007 9:39 am
I think somethings wrong with the poll. I viewed results before voting, and it had like around 50 votes. After I voted I only saw my vote. Might want to check that..
I’m in the 0-100 bracket. I have about 14-18 subscribers.
It gets really addicting checking how many readers I have. I guess once it gets past 100 I won’t be so worried about it. :-)
John from thedisneyblog.com
December 2nd, 2007 9:40 am
I think this would be much more useful if you also asked how many unique visitors and page views the site reads. It would be interesting to see the correspondence.
Louis Gray
December 2nd, 2007 9:41 am
We’re in the 160 to 180 range…
Harry Noott
December 2nd, 2007 9:44 am
Yay! I was first to vote, i have 13 - 16 readers, help me subscirbe now, click my name!!!!
--Deb
December 2nd, 2007 10:04 am
Well, I’ve got a lot more readers on my knitting blog than on my writing blog, so . . . that’s the number I’m going with (grin).
The Opinionated Blogger
December 2nd, 2007 10:13 am
I personally have never had a counter go above thirty. I would really like to read some more articles pertaining to how to increase the daily readers.
Hafiz
December 2nd, 2007 10:16 am
0 - 100 for me.
Hey shark girl, if I’m not wrong, feedburner counts the number of reader instead of the number of subscriber (although the higher the number of subscriber means you’ll have higher number of reader). Meaning only those that open up their favourite feed reader (any feed reader, eg. Google Reader) will be counted into the stats. Thus the stats will vary everyday.
Mania
December 2nd, 2007 10:32 am
105, baby! And climbing, if slowly. A week ago I would have been in the 0-100 category.
Paul
December 2nd, 2007 10:46 am
Only eight for me (how embarrassing). But I have a nice big RSS logo on the page, so I’m hoping it will start to attract more…
Shark Girl
December 2nd, 2007 10:49 am
Hafiz, if you’re right then that would make sense about the fluctuation then.
I have a lot of visitors to my site (what I consider a lot anyway) and use statcounter and sitemeter to track traffic. Feedburner never catches the traffic the other stat counters catch, so maybe you’re right about how feedburner works.
At least I have subsribers then, but I have more repeat visitors who just show up every day, but don’t subsubscribe. I can’t publicize how many readers I have because the United States Department of Justice asked me that question, and I won’t give them the satisfaction of knowing. They said my blog makes them nervous. They can subpeona it if they want to know. Otherwise, I would post it here how many subscribers and visitors I get to my site.
Cat Laine
December 2nd, 2007 10:50 am
We’re at 60. Am working on that 30 days to a better blog diet though.
The Investor's Journal
December 2nd, 2007 11:01 am
I’m in my third month of operation with my site and have around 10 readers. I think the fact that I post rarely doesn’t help in terms of converting viewers into readers.
Michael
December 2nd, 2007 11:01 am
It seems that the poll may be broken, currently it is telling me that I am the only one who has voted so far.
Just thought I’d let you know.
Jay Thompson
December 2nd, 2007 11:18 am
Poll worked OK for me.
Glad you asked now instead of last week. Just went over 200.
35 Ways to Increase RSS Subscribers
December 2nd, 2007 12:16 pm
I just wrote an article titled 35 Guaranteed Ways To Increase Your RSS Subscribers. Your readers might find some good tips for increasing RSS subscribers.
Brian Humphrey
December 2nd, 2007 12:22 pm
Darren, though our blog is an niche as they come, your suggestions for enhancing RSS subscribers could not have come at a more opportune time. Thank you!
Please accept our best wishes for safe and joyous holidays!
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department
Darren Rowse
December 2nd, 2007 12:33 pm
Joe - whatever feedburner’s stats say - that’s the number I’m after. It does include email subscriptions - but they are derived from your RSS so I guess technically they’re using RSS.
Poll seemed to have a glitch for a couple of you - apologies - but it does seem to be counting them ok.
Wayne Liew
December 2nd, 2007 12:33 pm
I’m in the current majority. I guess the key to raise the numbers is to offer great contents as well as your creativity in gaining it.
WizCoder
December 2nd, 2007 12:33 pm
Hold at 900+ mark for a few month, couldn’t break through
Lowell
December 2nd, 2007 12:45 pm
225 at present, which has taken a year to build…
Adam Taylor
December 2nd, 2007 1:30 pm
mmm first vote apparantly
mmj
December 2nd, 2007 3:41 pm
Just got my first a couple of days back. WHohoo!!
Meredith Hamilton
December 2nd, 2007 4:29 pm
Although hesitant to express my ignorance, I am unsure of how to get all of the statistics that are probably available to me regarding my blog.
Jeremiah - Simpletiger
December 2nd, 2007 5:07 pm
About 2 :( I’m new and working on it, help out guys! Jk :)
Dana
December 2nd, 2007 5:07 pm
Woohoo! I’m one above average, at least on my older blog.
Like the guy from the Disneyblog, I’m curious how subscriber numbers relate to visitors. On my old blog, they are close. Subs fluctuate between 160 and 187 and visits between uniques between 180 and 200. My newer blog gets a bit more traffic, but a lot fewer subs.
Emma
December 2nd, 2007 5:57 pm
I just did a post on increasing subscribers and making money. Darren, are you copying me?
Deepak
December 2nd, 2007 7:25 pm
Been flirting with 500, but haven’t crossed that yet. But it’s double in the last 6 months, so hopefully soon enough.
Ruchir
December 2nd, 2007 8:01 pm
My subscriber count fluctuates between 30 and 40…
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
December 2nd, 2007 9:00 pm
I have about 750-800…
Andreas Gerads
December 2nd, 2007 9:20 pm
Actually Feedburner measures between 370 and 470 within a week at my blog. This Variation is extremely high I guess, anyone with similar experiences??
Martin Neumann
December 2nd, 2007 9:27 pm
Hey Darren - must have totally missed your “RSS POP” series - so it’ll be a good Monday morning read.
One of my bigger blogs has close to 3,500 subscribers - but you know what? I really do believe that there’s more value in working on your email capture systems - thus in the new year I’ll be focusing less on rss (ie: smaller button - and it’s there if those who know about it) and I’ll be really positioning my email capture form above the fold and make it my main focus.
LintCollector
December 2nd, 2007 11:30 pm
My subscriber numbers have increased 14% in one day!
I only had 7, then I followed Darren’s suggestion and subscribed to my own feed, and now I have 8.
chipseo
December 2nd, 2007 11:47 pm
sadly I am in the first bullet. It is still climbing (slowly) but my blog has only been available for less than 2 months so the other ranking areas look good to me… rss, not so great. Scott
Pachecus
December 3rd, 2007 1:19 am
16 readers for me…. my blog is 15 days old
analogstuff
December 3rd, 2007 1:32 am
My feedcount varies normally at almost 10 no difference. It is around 231 today. Hope to reach 500 soon. Does any one has any idea of how many feed subscribers you need to apply feed advertising from google.
Vaibhav
December 3rd, 2007 2:07 am
My feeds currently show 150+ readers, i hope to touch 200 till end of this year.
Daniel Anderson
December 3rd, 2007 10:32 am
Glas to see I am not the only one with stats below 20 !!! I have a similar amount (around 10). My blog has only been up for a week. So hopefully I can attract some more……….
Peter Cooper
December 3rd, 2007 11:34 am
12000 here, although it wobbles by up to 500 each direction of that on a daily basis (and falls even more at the weekends). Can’t believe I’m actually in the top 5% of a poll for once.. definitely not in the top 5% for the earnings one! :(
Zhuoshi
December 3rd, 2007 12:51 pm
If there was an option of 20 and under, I would be in that category. :(
Jeremy Steele
December 3rd, 2007 3:01 pm
I don’t like releasing actual numbers for most things, but I will say that despite the fact traffic dropped over 50% in November (was busy working on other projects, plus less social media traffic), subscriptions shot up by a good 20% and are now somewhere between 100 and 500.
David Bradley
December 3rd, 2007 7:06 pm
Sciencebase hovers around the 2850 RSS subscriber mark, but there are definite ups and downs at different times of the week, particular there is usually a 150 drop over the weekend. Numbers went up slightly on Thanksgiving and whenever Google messes up its Reader I see big drops that bounce back once they fix things.
db
OPEN GIGA
December 4th, 2007 3:00 am
Approximately 100+ :P
Thanks
Anurag
December 4th, 2007 6:03 am
I have somewhere around 50 subscribers, but the numbers fluctuate a lot. Feedburner never calculates myAOL subscribers and lot many.
I don’t understand how this mechanism works. Feedburner has to pull the data for subscribers or the respective engines have to provide data to feedburner.
Whatever the case is, in my opinion, Feedburner doesn’t count the exact number of subscribers.
But that’s the only service I can use to at least get the approximate number of subscribers.
Tom Clarke
December 19th, 2007 11:33 pm
On 492 today! Just edging towards the 500 mark…. :-)
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