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When Will There Be RSS Stats?

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When will I be able to track the number of subscribers to my RSS feed? I don’t want to use Feedburner or any other 3rd party tool. I could look at Apache logs or look at the stats from BAStats but WordPress feeds can be accessed from different URL’s so I never know how to determine my syndicated readership. Why can’t I place a little code on my page that displays the number of unique feed subscribers?

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  1. WooHooBlog says: 4/15/2005

    I agree. That would be very handy indeed!

  2. AJ says: 4/15/2005

    Erm, perhaps you could code something in rewrite that passes it through a 3rd party before serving the rss. Sorta like the WP download counter… but with more info.

  3. Kevin says: 4/15/2005

    I’m also trying to find a way to track this since I can better judge whether content I blog about is relevant to my readers. I found one way, but it involves customizing your web analysis tool. See http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000064.html

  4. Tom says: 4/16/2005

    Never, seriously it would be one hell of a job to get accurate results. I think feedburner is your best bet right now.

  5. João Craveiro says: 4/16/2005

    Well, whatever the URi the users use to subscribe to the feed, the PHP code that generates it is always the same, so there’s a good way to track things—of course, until such a feature is integrated onto WordPress, it will be, obviously, a hack.
    As for me, I *do* have a sort of control over the accesses to my feed—I use BBClone to stat my blog, so I added its code to the feed PHP script as well, but that will be optimized in a near future, by creating a sole stats tool for the feed.

    I’ll drop a line when/if I have news ;)

  6. João Craveiro says: 4/16/2005

    P.S. For “sole stats tool” I meant “independent from the main BBClone site stats”, but it obviously has to be, in the worst case scenario, a WordPress plugin.

  7. John says: 4/16/2005

    Joao, I have tried bbclone but I couldn’t get it to work with 1.5. Where are you adding the bbclone code? I have tried the files in the theme and in the main index.php.

  8. John says: 4/16/2005

    Joao,

    Nevermind. I got it.