Now that I have RSS/Atom newsfeeds set up, managers are asking how many subscribers are there? Is there any way to calculate that? My first thought was to count up the number of feed hits vs home page hits, but that's bogus because it would include every feed update, which is done whenever the user agent feels like it. Counting by unique session IDs would also be bogus because each update is a different session. Counting by unique IPs is bogus due to network-address translation. Our privacy policy does not allow persistent user IDs.
The only thing I can think of is to put a random number in a query parameter when generating feed URLs. Then the number of active feeds each month would be the count of unique feed numbers. Or is there a better way? -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=.
