Feedburner Fluctuation
Posted in Geek by CujoJuly 31st, 2006 - 11:31 PM
So I’ve had Feedburner installed and running stats for the past week. Admittedly I’m a stats junky and the more little features I find that keep track of different stats I have to have (this sentence makes no sense). So for the past week I’ve been watching my Feedburner stats go up then down. I think I started quite low (of course) then jumped to about 18, hey that’s pretty good for a start of tracking, the next day it dropped to 13, oh no what happened? Wait look, it sky rocketed to 21. WOOHOO! Oh crap, back down to 13.
All these fluctuations drive a stat junky crazy, especially when he’s a junky who likes to see the numbers go up. I did find on Feedburner’s site a “reasoning” why it fluctuates and I don’t quite fully understand it right now (feed hits to the site or something) but I’ll pretend like I do. For the curious ones out there my “all time average” is running at 12. That just seems disappointing but I’ll accept it.
Looking at my AWStats counter it seems a lot of people are bookmarking the site this month?
How do you view the site: bookmark? feed (live bookmarks count)? direct address?
Also for those in the know or curious enough to notice it I just added a “subscribe to comments” feature to the blog as well. I’m not sure if it’s working yet so it looks like you all have to subscribe to the comments and let me know how it’s working. I also added the comment feed to Feedburner so I can track those stats as well. Yes I’m crazy I know — I found a helpful little article here that explains what you need to do in order to have Feedburner track them — once again, I’m not sure if this is working so start subscribing so I can have some test cases.
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August 1st, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Most days I average around 30 for the photoshop site, though it doubles on days I release a new article. I don’t have things set up for TCP, but I’m sure it would be low, likely a lot lower than BTC. I’d be surprised if I had anything above 0, actually.
My photoshop site has had very focused content since it started, though, which you’ve only just started doing, I believe. Given that, you’re better off than I was when I was at the point you are now in terms of how long I’d been doing it (and how’s that for making no sense?).
Also *subscribes*
August 1st, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Not going to lie to you, I now know why I’m considered old….I have no idea what this post was about……..crap
August 1st, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Was it written in Aramaic maybe? oR Sandscrit?
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
To keep this simple for you Ross I’ll explain quick and short.
You can read a blog by going to the web site or by subscribing to something called a “feed”. This feed is then readable in a multitude of programs. Basically if I create a new blog entry the feed is updated and if Person X has their feed reader open they’ll be informed of the update and be able to read it in their reader.
Basically my post above is trying to figure out how many people are actually doing this.
And that’s the simple version of it — maybe a little too simple.
You’ll learn one day grasshopper.
August 8th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Have you redircted your feed to your feedburner feed?
I mean you old feed, it shoudl be redircted to the fb one so that all agregators get the fb feed. We have that problem with Broca’s Area. We get about 200 downloads a day of episodes and really only iTunes has our feedburner feed. All others have the source feed (the I use to burn the feedburner feed. So I can reallly only estimate stats for Broca’s. That said, we get about oh 70 ’subscriber’ hits a day on fb for Broca’s and about the same for T6. However, T6 gets about 75 percent of it listeners right off the website, not from the feed so that allows me to build a simple math model to predict the true number of subscribers to Broca’s Area. I figure it is around 2000.
My lectures 9http://feeds.feedburner.com/dave_psych) get more hits than both combined. Why, I do not know…. However, some prof in New Zealand has his psych classes listening to my classes. I now give them little shout outs during class….