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I work in podcasts and not with written content RSS feeds, but at least in the podcasting world, I would take traffic from RSS endpoints with a grain of salt -
by ryanbrunner 3y ago
I work in podcasts and not with written content RSS feeds, but at least in the podcasting world, I would take traffic from RSS endpoints with a grain of salt - a lot of reader clients like to request updates very frequently, and it's not unreasonable at all that a user that consumes your content primarily through RSS makes one or even two order of magnitudes more requests than someone who visits your site.
- darekkay 3y agoThe parent might be referring to my other post [0]. Some RSS readers - at least Inoreader, Feedbin and Feedly - send the actual subscriber count as part of their HTTP request. Which is nice to get at least a minimum number of total subscriptions. Not sure if popular podcasting apps do that as well, though. [0] https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/ https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/
- manuelmoreale 3y agoI wrote about my findings here[0] and honestly I don’t even know what to make of those numbers. RSS stats are stupidly hard to track, especially if you only rely on server logs which is what I do. [0] https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs