Number of RSS feeds from my site
bwv - October 1, 2007 - 12:27
Hello. I'd like to know how many people are subscribing via RSS to my site. Is there a way to determine that in Drupal? If not, how would I go about finding out that information. And is it possible to know not just the number of subscribers, but also the sites that are subscribing? Many thanks.
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Its not easy, because, largely, there isn't something unique that identifies different readers. And there isn't necessarily a 1:1 ratio between RSS downloads to readers. You can only estimate the number of your readers, based on various heuristics, assumptions and tricks.
The easiest solution is to serve your RSS via services like FeedBurner which analyze your traffic:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/001694.html
(There's a module that claims to give you the number of "people subscribed to your feeds", but it isn't true: it simply counts IP addresses.)
Thanks for clarifying that
Thanks for clarifying that for me. I will look at the module and at feedburner. Regards.