I’m trying to make sense of my Feedburner numbers

May 13, 2010 5 Comments

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I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here are two looks at my subscriber numbers. The first chart starts on August 11, 2006, which is the first day I started blogging. The second chart starts on January 28, 2010, which is the first day of the spike in my Feedburner statistics.

If anyone can make sense of these trends, particularly the waviness of the second chart, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What are you seeing with your own blogs?

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5 Responses to “I’m trying to make sense of my Feedburner numbers”

  1. Hans Mundahl Reply May 13, 2010 at 10:08 am

    The second one looks identical to my daily page view graph: low on weekends, spikes on Monday mornings as everyone checks in at work.

    Is this graph really people viewing your feed?

  2. Jim Fry Reply May 15, 2010 at 8:13 am

    I have not been receiving your posts since April 23rd. I unscribed and went to your site and scribed again with Google Reader and am not getting any new posts since that april 23rd date. Not sure if that is something going on with Feedburner

  3. Richard Byrne Reply May 15, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Hi Scott,
    My graph looks similar in terms of peaks and valleys. Weekends always have the lowest traffic. After the huge, strange, spike in January my numbers returned to normal after a few weeks. Interestingly, for the last month FeedBurner has not been delivering emails correctly. FeedBurner (Google) doesn’t seem concerned about it. I’m moving my email subscribers to FeedBlitz this weekend.

    Richard

  4. Dave Reply May 24, 2010 at 10:28 am

    You need to keep in mind that feed burner is not counting subscribers. There is an explanation here http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/feedburner-subscriber-count-is-not-accurate/

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