As I have mentioned before, RSS is the best metric to show the real success of your blog. Sure, you may have thousands of visitors every day, you may rank for every keyword in your niche, but if you don’t have RSS subscribers, you are failing.
Having subscribers is the equivalent of a newspaper, you have X amount of people, whom you will reach no matter what. Sales may fluctuate, you may have good days and bad days, but the number of subscribers is relatively stable.
And, honestly, it is much more important to say “I have 3000 RSS readers”, than to say “I have 15000 visitors every day”. The random visitors usually come because they find you in the engines, or from other links etc. No, of course, you cannot call them insignificant, but they are not a precise metric. RSS pretty much is.
I read somewhere that an RSS reader is the equivalent of 25$/month. I say this is crap, but he surely has a value, even if its not monetary.
So, why am I babbling about RSS instead of discussing the RSS data of this blog? Because there aren’t any 
Checking out my Feedburner stats, I find ~25 subscribers. Pathetic, I know, but still considerable since this is a new and small blog. I believe it depends on the niche, but less than 5% of your visitors will either comment, participate or subscribe. The other 95% are lurkers.
Sunday, September 14 – Saturday, September 20
- 23 subscribers (on average)
- 10 reach (on average)
| NAME | VIEWS | CLICKS |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Practical tips on webdesign | 18 | 19 |
| A small collection of icons for you | 9 | 21 |
| TLA vs TNX | 24 | 1 |
| Most people are average, normal and bor… | 20 | 1 |
| Writing good content for your website, … | 15 | 3 |
| How to shoot yourself on the foot, or h… | 14 | 2 |
| Twitter got me! | 12 | 1 |
| Modified pingcrawl plugin | 13 | – |
| Eggs, cookies, passive income and html | 12 | – |
| Statistical chaos | 11 | – |
| Making money from poker | 11 | – |
| Glowleaf.net X-rayed | 9 | 1 |
| Google turns us all into coal miners | 9 | – |
| Building your SEO empire, the Glowleaf … | 7 |
Feed Readers and Aggregators
| NAME | SUBSCRIBERS |
|---|---|
| Google Feedfetcher | 5 |
| Bloglines | 4 |
| Firefox Live Bookmarks | 2 |
| NewsGator Online | 2 |
| FeedReader | 1 |
| NetNewsWire | 1 |
| Vienna | 1 |
| A Java-based feed reader | 0 |
| Mozilla/5.0 () | 0 |
| Mozilla/5.0 (SimplePie; Allow like Gecko) | 0 |
Bots
| NAME | HITS  |
|---|---|
| IceRocket | 52 |
| Technorati Search Bot | 21 |
| Another Google Bot | 4 |
| Moreover | 2 |
| Sphere | 2 |
| FeedBurner Feed Insurance | 1 |
| Radian 6 Crawler | 1 |
| FeedBurner | 0 |
| RSSMicro Search | 0 |
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