Comments on: Registrants and Feedburnered Users http://www.chemspider.com/blog/registrants-and-feedburnered-users.html Building Community for Chemists Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:07:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Bradley http://www.chemspider.com/blog/registrants-and-feedburnered-users.html/comment-page-1#comment-33440 David Bradley Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:42:05 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/registrants-and-feedburnered-users.html#comment-33440 Just a quick note about Feedburner values. Mine oscillate wildly on a daily basis but it's nothing to do with losing and gaining subscribers, it's all to do with how Feedburner receives pings from specific news aggregators, such as bloglines, google reader, snarfer etc and how those are used by people day to day. Sometimes it's a straightforward outage, so your number drops if google reader doesn't report to Feedburner properly at the right reporting time, other times it can be to do with weekends and holidays where users may not be logging into their reader accounts or may use a different access route from home, say. I wrote about this in an item on Sciencetext entitled <a href="http://www.sciencetext.com/the-feedburner-myth.html" rel="nofollow">The Feedburner Myth</a>. As long as the long-term count trend is upwards I don't think you have anything to worry about day to day or even week by week. db Just a quick note about Feedburner values. Mine oscillate wildly on a daily basis but it’s nothing to do with losing and gaining subscribers, it’s all to do with how Feedburner receives pings from specific news aggregators, such as bloglines, google reader, snarfer etc and how those are used by people day to day. Sometimes it’s a straightforward outage, so your number drops if google reader doesn’t report to Feedburner properly at the right reporting time, other times it can be to do with weekends and holidays where users may not be logging into their reader accounts or may use a different access route from home, say.

I wrote about this in an item on Sciencetext entitled The Feedburner Myth. As long as the long-term count trend is upwards I don’t think you have anything to worry about day to day or even week by week.

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