Wednesday 22 September 2010

RSS versus front page...

A one-day snapshot of how SiteMeter distorts reader numbers where a large proportion come by RSS.

Sitemeter: Monday, 20 September, 201 visits, 409 page views.
Feedburner: Monday, 20 September, 10,435 views, 130 clicks.

One day's RSS traffic beats what I'll get all month via front page traffic. It's an abnormal day, sure: one post hit the shared feed for a few folks with a lot of subscribers: more than 9000 views for that item. And some folks think RSS is dead....

2 comments:

  1. RSS views are also very inflated though. All the people who just scroll through their google reader and just stop at whatever catches their attention will count as a view.

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