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On 25/07/07, mac jordan <mac.jordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry - how would that help?  I'm quite happy having the feed on the site,
> but I would like to see how many people are reading it in GA (I have it in
> Nettracker too, but GA is so much nicer to use).

Because RSS traffic and usage is different to regular web use - e.g.
one request for a feed can yield several article "reads".

FB know this, which is why they're the top dog for feed stats, and why
Google bought them, no doubt.

As I said, I fully expect FB stats to *be* in Analytics, eventually.

Interestingly, we started to use FB because Nettracker's stats were
being polluted by requests for RSS feeds. Nettracker is focused on web
stats, and can't comprehend RSS usage behaviour, which could
legitimately be robot- or human-based, and may or may not correlate to
content being read.

Tim