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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Sam Machin <sam at bs8.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm sure I'm teaching you to suck eggs here Laura  but the point to
>  remember is it won't be easy to tell the number of 'people' that have
>  signed up to your rss only real metrics are the number of GET's and
>  the number of unique IP's. From that you would have to assume number
>  of users, however everyone using a feed agregator service eg Google
>  Reader would only count as 1 I guess??

Google Reader only used to count as 1 subscriber, but they fixed it to
report the total number of subscribers for the one fetch of the feed
that Google does.

>  Does raise some interesting questions on RSS stats, anyone have any tips?

Yep - read the Feedburner FAQs ;)

Tim