Comments on: WordPress.com New Feature: Feed Stats

By: sdipietr

sdipietr — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:41:28 +0000

Thanks - I fished around a little went to AddThis. I used it to create by subscription button on the website almost by accident when I created the web. After looking at the AddThis site a little deeper, I saw that it keeps stats on who subscribed.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:34:45 +0000

@ sdipietr:

Feed Stats are no longer available for WordPress.com and for those using the identical stats page on their self-hosted WordPress blogs. They are working on developing a better way of recording feeds, but currently, there are few methods that get it “totally” right. Feedburner and FeedBlitz do an okay job, but only if you have replaced ALL of the feed references to theirs. That’s not possible in a WordPress.com blog.

By: sdipietr

sdipietr — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:52:39 +0000

Lorelle, is this only available on the hosted version? If it is I’ll have to move to it.

By: Do you know the statistic on wordpress.com ? at alex.rabe

Do you know the statistic on wordpress.com ? at alex.rabe — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:12:48 +0000

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By: Drop in Feed Stats in Wordpress.com Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress

Drop in Feed Stats in Wordpress.com Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:13:53 +0000

[...] I don’t check my feed stats on my WordPress.com blog very often. In general, they aren’t very interesting. So imagine my shock when I drop in and find that the number of feeds accessing this site had dropped over 75%! [...]

By: Dee’s-Planet! » Wordpress.com New Feature: Feed Stats

Dee’s-Planet! » Wordpress.com New Feature: Feed Stats — Thu, 25 May 2006 12:19:01 +0000

[...] Lorelle has written an article, points this feature with usage statistics and charts. What it does or why is this required? [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:58:34 +0000

I haven’t been able to find out if the Feed Statistics being used with WordPress.com blogs is available as a WordPress Plugin. And as a tool, well, it isn’t very good. It gives you a percentage in a pie chart that tells you where the most people are coming through for their feeds, like using a browser, Netvibes, Google, etc. Oh, and it isn’t a pie chart any more. It’s a bar graph. It is still in alpha/beta testing mode, so we expect things to dance around a bit until it settles down. Then they might release the Plugin for the public.

You can find a lot of statistic WordPress Plugins on the WordPress Codex Plugins List, through the main source for WordPress Plugins, WP-Plugins.net, and Tan Tan Noodles takes a good look at monitoring feed statistics with WordPress.

By: Optimus

Optimus — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:05:56 +0000

Lorelle,

You suggest in your follow-up comment that feed stats (minus the pie chart) are available already as WordPress plugins. Could you mention any by name? I can’t seem to find any that will track subscribers, views or other RSS/Atom metrics.

Thanks!

By: Wordpress Feed Stats » Blog on a Stick

Wordpress Feed Stats » Blog on a Stick — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:19:48 +0000

[...] See a great review of Feed Stats. [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:32:24 +0000

Ah, blagermeister, such an optimist! How do you know that some of those 146K folks are signing up for Akismet. There are thousands and thousands of WordPress.com blogs, so many I rarely repeat a visit while crawling through.

I would like to see more accurate stats overall, but they are doing the best they can.