re: Analyzing Blog hit statistics

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re: Analyzing Blog hit statistics

Steven Black — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:50:00 GMT

Hi Calvin, I read your blog in my RSS aggregator so, in a sense, your posts come to me. So the stats above are from those who come to your site and read the HTML version. From analyzing the FoxPro Wiki's RSS feed, I've noticed some interesting things about its RSS feed:
* Currently between a sixth and a fifth of all Unique IPs request the RSS XML.
* The number of total pages served doubles, year on year, while the RSS about triples over the same period.
* The RSS XML feed is by far the most requested page, including the home page and recent changes page.
* RSS readers are "loyal", returning very regularly, some every hour their PC is on. This is due to the configurable periodic nature of RSS polling.
* Because of the RSS redirect capability, this traffic is, in a sense, portable, and would seamlessly adapt if you ever change your blog host.
So I think it would be cool to quantify various aspects of the RSS you serve, becase this would paint a picture of a your most loyal and probably fastest growing segment of your readers.
P.S. Spot any interesting country patterns to your RSS traffic? I do with the wiki. Some countries are notably more RSS-phyllic than some others. An notable RSS laggard: Canada. Do you see this too?