I noticed a spike too. My blog at http://puppetvision.blogspot.com gets a minimum of 500 unique visitors each day and yet for the longest time Feedburner claimed I only had 20-30 RSS subscribers which seemed low. I know not everyone uses RSS, but since they changed the algorithm I'm now at about 130 RSS subscribers which seems more in line with my traffic stats.
To be fair, I don't think the problem is Feedburner's fault. Until recently they were not able to pull accurate numbers from many of the popular RSS services like My Yahoo! - Andrew Rupert wrote: > Has everyone else had an increase in Feedburner stats? > > They changed their algorithms last week. > > I don't look at stats very much, and Feedburner stats almost never, > but I saw an announcement from them about changing their algorithms, > checked my feed and indeed there had been at least a 50% increase in > subscribers in just the last few days. > > There's no other reason for this for me, since I haven't posted > anything and I have no more links listed in Technorati. > > They say they've "retired" their Maximum algorithm in favour of their > more complex Cluster algorithm, which "has shown itself to be a more > accurate way to count subscriptions, taking into account elusive feed > aliases and better reflecting the reality of how many subscribers are > accessing your media. To clarify, any increases in subscription > numbers aren't "new" subscribers, rather it reflects an improvement > to how we calculate data for your feed." > > But how much trust can one put in the new figures, given that the old > figures were so wrong?? > > It doesn't really affect me, but I thought it might be of interest to > some here whose stats are tied into their revenue. > > Rupert > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org <http://www.fatgirlinohio.org> > http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ > <http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 >7:44 AM > > -- Andrew Young Creative Director, TWAP! Digital Studios Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.angrypuppets.com Blog: puppetvision.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
