Another milestone reached :)

According to FeedBurner statistics, my RSS feed had exactly 5000 subscribes on June 30th.

Disclaimer: The Feedburner subscriber count is a notoriously unreliable measure, as it tries to estimate the actual number of subscribers for on-line services that cache the feeds (for example, Google Reader) … but the result is nonetheless quite nice.

6 comments:

Mike said...

Google Reader reports 28 subscribers and 5,1 posts a week.

Ivan Pepelnjak said...

Simply had to try the Google Reader myself. Here are the stats reported for various URLs through which my RSS feed is reachable:

http://ioshints.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
(obsolete): 2544 subscribers

http://blog.ioshints.info/feeds/posts/default
596 subscribers

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CiscoIosHintsAndTricks
(redirect to FeedBurner) 243 subscribers

And thanks for uncovering another interesting Google Reader behavior (it does not check where the actual feed resides).

Mike said...

One more actually, because I have: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CiscoIosHintsAndTricks

Anonymous said...

Živjo Ivan,

One of the most valuable Cisco networking resources irrespectively of the numbers :)

Cheers, Pete

Anonymous said...

I keep your RSS as a Firefox "live bookmark", this may not appear in the stats?

Ivan Pepelnjak said...

@Pete: Nice to hear from someone in my local language ;)

@Anonymous#2: Feedburner reports 230+ users using Firefox live bookmarks (and only 19 of them use FeedReader like I do). What counts is that your RSS agent periodically fetches the feed.

Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354, is the chief technology advisor for NIL Data Communications. He has been designing and implementing large-scale data communications networks as well as teaching and writing books about advanced technologies since 1990. See his full profile, contact him or follow @ioshints on Twitter.