Ask HN: Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or Wordpress?

Posted by marcamillion on Friday April 23, 2010 @05:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am having a hard time figuring out this rss subscription thing (from the admin point of view). The numbers fluctuate so much in feedburner, when I chose one specific day. How is it that the numbers on certain larger blogs, don't fluctuate so wildly? E.g. 37signals.com/svn

Also, why does Wordpress tell me a MUCH larger number (by a factor of at lest 3, sometimes even 5 or 10) for the last 7 days, than feedburner does?

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Re:Ask HN: Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or... by niyazpk on Saturday April 24, 2010 @03:34AM (#1290542)

The numbers fluctuate for larger blogs too, but they become less noticeable. For example if you have 10 readers, feedburner may show anything between 5-20. At the same time, if you have 100 readers it will show something between 90-110.

Anyways don't fret over these numbers. For the most part, they don't mean anything.

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Re:Ask HN: Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or... by mschwar99 on Friday April 23, 2010 @09:16AM (#1287934)

Many of the subscriptions reported directly by WP are bots / spiders. Feedburner attempts to filter many of those out.

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