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Feed subscribers are a strong component in determining the overall performance and popularity of your blog. In 2007 we saw our overall subscriber number reach over 1800. Below are our all-time feed subscriber stats.
Historical Feed Subscriber Count
Feed Item Use
101,924 views of 262 items
32,043 clicks back to the site on 538 items
6,984 downloads of 58 enclosures
Feed Reader Distribution
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Name |
Subscribers |
|---|---|
| Google Feedfetcher | 710 |
| Netvibes | 402 |
| Bloglines | 160 |
| NewsGator Online | 68 |
| Rojo | 53 |
| Liferea | 34 |
| Windows RSS Platform | 32 |
| FeedReader | 29 |
| Firefox Live Bookmarks | 27 |
| iTunes (Windows) | 27 |
| iTunes (Mac) | 21 |
| Firefox Live Bookmarks (version 1) | 18 |
| Outlook 2007 | 16 |
| Pageflakes | 16 |
| My Yahoo | 14 |
| Jakarta Commons Generic Client | 11 |
| NetNewsWire | 11 |
| Flock My News | 7 |
Hey Manoj,
Congrats! It looks like you had a big spike in subscribers in March 07 and June 07. What caused the jump?
Cheers,
-Alex
http://www.alexlcohen.com
PS: Don’t you wish Feedburner would let you annotate charts?
Hi Alex,
The first jump was due to the placement and number of options for feed subscriptions on my blog. The second jump was the Google Feed Reader update I believe.
I agree with your comment re: FeedBurner.
Hey Manoj,
Not to be a total analytics dork about this but…
Did you learn about the optimal placement with MVT?
I’m guessing you moved from right nav to top nav and added chiclets
Personally, I loathe chiclets, but I guess it’s all about the readers.
-Alex
Yeah you’re right about the chicklets and placement. I didn’t do MVT testing. I simply dug into Feedburner to understand what feed readers people were using and made those more prominent. Additionally I closely watched the lift in subscribers based on the placement/chicklet change.
I am on the fence regarding chicklets, but they seem to be working so I don’t want to remove them quite yet