How do you create a web-based RSS reader that will not spoil readers' statistics for blog authors?

Question

My company is starting work on creating a web-based RSS reader that users can subscribe to and track feeds; like google reader.

My first thought was that as soon as I have a feed URL for a specific blog or website, I will only need to poll it once to capture the content, and then paste the entries into the database for everyone who subscribes on him.

Nevertheless; if someone uses the FeedBurner service to track reader statistics, 100 readers can be subscribed to a specific blog or website and it will only appear as one reader for the actual author.

Polling once for each subscriber will be a huge unnecessary overhead, especially if a thousand users are subscribed to the same channel. Do you have any suggestions or is this the only solution for over-polling the same feed hundreds of times in a row?

Answer 1

As far as I know, Google Reader solves the problem this way: the line of their client’s user agent includes the number of subscribers who read this channel through their reader.

I don’t know if FeedBurner or other tools interpret this, but at least theoretically you can get accurate statistics from http log files this way.

Edit:

According to official Google Reader documentation

Answer 2

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