November 9, 2007 by ian
Over the last week, my Feedburner stats have jumped and fallen by as much as 50%, even though my visitor count remained steady.
Feedburner measures the number of RSS feed subscribers your blog has.
It's hard for me to believe that my subscriber count is plunging to 150 or so one day, and then jumping to almost 400 the next. Has anyone else seen this?
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Sam Freedom says:
November 9, 2007 11:05
Same here but not by that much. I just left a post in the FB Dev section of the forums asking why my counter hasn't moved in what seems like ages since I KNOW I'm getting decent traffic each day.
Well, I put the fc chicklet on at 239. Three days later it jumps to 246 and a day later drops to 226. Someone gave some possible reason but it just made no sense to me so the jury is still out.
Bottom line, WGF. I use these apps as basic help but understand and accept them for what they are... WILDLY imperfect! Try not to let any apps lack of accuracy get to your head too much... then you're sucked into their world playing their game.
Just keep churning out the good stuff and "they will come." ;-)
Cheers...
Sam
Chris says:
November 9, 2007 11:05
This was actually a documented glitch reported by Feedburner themselves.
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/11/sunday_subscriber_count_drop.php
Joomla Template Bear says:
February 6, 2009 23:27
Apparently this behavior is due to feedburner updating its stats daily and not always indexing users who use older feed readers. It also means you will often see a drop in the weekend when people aren't using their feed readers!
Seems silly really as users are either subscribed or they are not, but I guess feedburners stats are based more on who has opened their feed viewer on the day rather than the all-time subscriber figure.