How Accurate is Your Feed Subscribers Count ?

Most of use Feedburner to burn our feeds and maintain some stats like Feed Subscribers Count, Live Hits, Item Use etc. I would like to throw some light over Feed Subscribers Count, How accurate is it ?

Google does not currently report the number of subscribers to your feed when it requests the feed, so the number of subscribers you have on Google home or Google Feed reader may be underrepresented by an unknown amount.

So Imagine you got 50 loyal readers using Google Reader or Google Personalized Homepage, these readers go unnoticed in your feed count. So what’s the point in showing off your feed subscribers count ?

Its looks for big publishers who have more than 1000 readers, but for someone like you and me who are stuck under 200 – 300 readers, showing these stats to our readers would badly hurt our rep :D

This post was published by on December 7, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://http//logiconline.wordpress.com Srikanth LOGIC

    Oh.. im a GReader user, add 1 to your feed readers count :)

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net CypherHackz

    hey nice topic. thats why you remove the chicklet from your site eh?

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    CypherHackz: Yup :D

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    i also feel like removing the feedcount chicklet.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Well, guess it would “hopefully” be a matter of time before Google starts reporting.

    Currently most of my readers are Firefox bookmarks, kinda strange

  • http://www.afterlife69.com Afterlife(69)

    I seriously have no idea how many readers I have, I really should be using feedburner but I’m just so damn lazy :)

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ajay: That’s the same case everywhere, I have noticed that Firefox readers are lazy and new comeback

    Afterlife(69): You need Feedburner !! Go Go Go !!

  • http://blogosquare.blog.mu Hans

    I also haven’t put in the numbers there. Why? I think mostly because the blog’s better without it.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Hans: Initially I had removed it, but now I’m forced to use it in this new Theme

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    @thilak, True about Firefox users, they show a spike when there is a spike in visitors and then the drop the next day.

    I’ve decided to keep numbers, it does serve as a “tempter”

    In the end of course quality speaks.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D'Souza

    Well, guess it would “hopefully” be a matter of time before Google starts reporting.

    Currently most of my readers are Firefox bookmarks, kinda strange