[Web4lib] Measuring RSS activity in Apache log files

[Ken Varnum]

Along these lines, some aggregators include the number of subscribers  
they are aggregating in their HTTP request (in the user-agent line).  
For example (taken from the Browser report of a recent Analog report):

Bloglines/3.1 (http://www.bloglines.com; 19 subscribers)
NewsGatorOnline/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; 7 subscribers)
NewsGatorOnline/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; 2 subscribers)
AttensaOnline/1.0 (http://www.attensa.com; 1 subscribers)
Feedshow/1.0 (http://www.feedshow.com; 1 subscriber)

As the number of aggregator subscriber changes, this information  
changes -- so I can see that Bloglines/3.1 had 15 subscribers, then  
16, then 17...

Ken

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On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> On the other hand, web feed aggregators are likely to download your  
> feed
> just once for all of their users who subscribe to it, which will drive
> down the hit numbers.  This is web stats in a microcosm: all you can
> really be sure of is climbing or falling hits over time.