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Can I get statistics on RSS readers?

Is there a way to get the number how many people are reading the RSS feed? My understanding of how channel readers work (e.g. Google Reader) is that they periodically check the channel, cache it, and serve the cached copy to the one who requests it until it is updated, which means there is no way to get reliable numbers for readability.

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Lots of suggestions for using FeedBurner, but do they have a way to count individual readers using a web reader like Google Reader? Otherwise, it seems like the best approach for tracking pixels suggested by @ifwdev.

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Feedburner provides this information; you can delegate your feed to this service. I really don't know how this works under the covers (as you said, the feed should be checked periodically ...) to be reliable.

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Include the image in your posts and see how many hits he receives?

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You can get RSS statistics.

If you host your own RSS feed, you can parse the IIS or Apache logs to find all requests for the feed, and then do some processing to aggregate the data on each machine.

If your feed is hosted on any blog, it usually offers some basic statistics.

You can also use Google FeedBurner to create an RSS feed that basically redirects your real feed. FeedBurner provides really good statistics and also supports other interesting features.

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Feedburner works pretty nicely. For example, they do all the statistics for Perlbuzz . In addition, you get these small widgets that you can place on the page (yellow block on Perlbuzz, which gives the number of current readers).

You can track the logs yourself, but I don't mind if Feedburner does this for me.

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