I use Feedburner for my RSS feed and there are about 1500 – 1700 subscribers. The majority of subscribers simply read the feed (or just collect it) since all of the content is there. Feedburner does let you see which items cause someone to click through to the actual blog. Here are the top ten posts that caused a click through in order. The RSS readers were most clicks came from are Bloglines and Google reader.
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Feedburner also has siite statistics now. It reported 292 average daily visitors for July with 11.0% direct, 74.2% searches, 14.8% other sites. It seems that StumbleUpon is the top site that people come here from after searches. It also reported 442 average daily page views. The stats are very similar to what Site Meter and Typepad report. The top four pages viewed in order were the home page, restaurant picks, trends: KM/portals, and then in fourth place the top individual post for July was Barbeque of the Carolinas: East and West, North and South. This is appropriate for the season. There were some other restaurant reviews in the rest of the top ten.
It makes sense that that top ten sites from feeds are more related to the business content and the top ten from searches are more related to the food guides as most searches engines like my food posts.
If you are not using Feedburner and Site Meter I would suggest you add them. They are both free, at least for the basic service. web 2.0
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I have tried Sitemeter and other tools.
Have not tried feedburner though.
Can I use 2 tools at a time, will it effect the speed?
I am using http://GoStats.com they provide comprehensive reports, dont want to stop on this but open to other tools.
Posted by: Mark | August 07, 2007 at 08:43 AM
Mark - As far as I know you can use all these tools and they should no effect speed. Since they all seem to be a little different it is helpful to get multiple perspectives. Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | August 07, 2007 at 08:53 AM