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How are you tracking RSS reads? HTTP logs?
by schemescape 4y ago
How are you tracking RSS reads? HTTP logs?
- woodruffw 4y agoYep, HTTP logs: most standalone RSS clients have a distinct user agent, and most of the web-based ones send a UA containing the total subscriber count. For example, here's a log from today: 8.29.198.27 - - [01/Jan/2023:00:04:42 -0500] "GET /feed.xml HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 99 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)" Interestingly, a few of the big ones (Feedly, Feedbin) have multiple subscriber counts for me. I'm not sure why that is.