RSS Referrers

January 23, 2006 11:30 AM

How can I include RSS visitors to my Web site in my monthly Web stat report?
posted by Taken Outtacontext to computers & internet (4 comments total)

I know that FeedBurner does a very good job of keeping track of RSS statistics, and their API enables you to use data in statistical reporting software (such as this pepper for Mint.
posted by charmston at 11:37 AM on January 23, 2006

Thanks. Will check it out. Is there a way to find out this information without using FeedBurner?
posted by Taken Outtacontext at 11:49 AM on January 23, 2006

your stats package would have to be aware of the index.xml file or whatever you use as RSS output. And even then, it's not a totally accurate number since bloglines will poll the file once per hour and show up as one user, but perhaps a thousand people might be subscribed to your feed at bloglines.
posted by mathowie at 11:57 AM on January 23, 2006

bloglines does include subscriber numbers in the request headers.
posted by scottreynen at 12:37 PM on January 23, 2006