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> Site owners get my traffic and they can easily see where it comes from if they happen to look at their visitor statistics. I suggest to also put the name of
by darekkay 3y ago
> Site owners get my traffic and they can easily see where it comes from if they happen to look at their visitor statistics.
I suggest to also put the name of your reader and the total number of subscribers into the HTTP request (as user agent), if possible.
https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/ https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/
- manuelmoreale 3y agoMy understanding is that because of the way the various aggregators work is basically impossible to quantify the audience of RSS feeds, and that’s a good thing.
- darekkay 3y agoGetting an exact number is impossible, that's what I wrote in the linked blog post as well. But every RSS reader that requires user accounts knows the exact numbers, and 4 of the main readers expose those numbers via HTTP requests.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoFrom my personal digging [0] RSS is way too noisy. Just a wild guess but the 4 main readers are not where the majority of the RSS users are. [0] https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs
- rambambram 3y agoIf I have more users than just a couple, I would definitely look into doing that. But my feed reader is part of a website system (together with it's own feed) that sits nicely separated on a different domain for each client. I have to centralize things to even get this number. Somewhere in this same thread I said: "Exposing the number of subscribers from large RSS readers is a nice addition, but it also slightly nudges one to centralization." After second thought, I think it's better to just show this number if possible. It's better for RSS as a whole, it shows it's still alive.