3 ms·
Ask HN: If you provide feed for your blog, do you have its usage stats to share?
This question occurred to my mind while writing this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551668 while responding to another comment that stated that RSS is almost dead.
Do you serve RSS feed on your website? If so, do you have the usage statistics for it available with you? If so, would you like to share it as a comment here?
Here is mine which I am quoting verbatim from the comment linked above:
"> Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead
I provide an RSS feed for my blog at https://susam.in/. From my access.log, I see there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it:
Feedly 56 subscribers
Inoreader 17 subscribers
Feedbin 6 subscribers
NewsBlur 4 subscribers
The Old Reader 3 subscribers
BazQux 2 subscribers
WordPress 2 subscribers
------------------------------
Total 90 subscribers
I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page but I will talk about ordinary day traffic only here. From the HTTP referer (sic) information in the logs I can see that about 30-50 of those hits have a feed reader in the referer field, that is, at least 0.5%-0.75% of the total hits are coming from users who clicked on a blog post link in their feed reader and landed on the website. It is a very small percentage but 30-50 hits per day from users consuming the feed and 90 subscribers to the feed are reasons good enough to keep the feed alive."
I am curious to see what the usage statistics look like for others.