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Ask HN: Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or Wordpress?
I am having a hard time figuring out this rss subscription thing (from the admin point of view). The numbers fluctuate so much in feedburner, when I chose one specific day. How is it that the numbers on certain larger blogs, don't fluctuate so wildly? E.g. 37signals.com/svn
Also, why does Wordpress tell me a MUCH larger number (by a factor of at lest 3, sometimes even 5 or 10) for the last 7 days, than feedburner does?
- mschwar99 17y agoMany of the subscriptions reported directly by WP are bots / spiders. Feedburner attempts to filter many of those out.
- niyazpk 17y agoThe numbers fluctuate for larger blogs too, but they become less noticeable. For example if you have 10 readers, feedburner may show anything between 5-20. At the same time, if you have 100 readers it will show something between 90-110. Anyways don't fret over these numbers. For the most part, they don't mean anything.