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jason_kolb says:

That's a FeedBurner counter, feedburnere is doing the counting.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

I know. What is Feedburner counting?

Clearly the number of hits they’re getting for Mike's feed must be going up, and perhaps the number of unique IP addresses is going up too.

Do they count all the readers at Microsoft as 1 subscriber? Is that just the average number of times the feed was requested per day? How then would they factor in people who read it more than once. My aggregator reads it 24 times a day, am I counted as 24 "readers?"

Bloglines just reads it once for N people who subscribe, how do they factor that in?

Just curious to know what the method is. Since no one has to sign up for anything they can't directly count the number of subscribers.
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jonknee says:

Bloglines along with most web-based aggregators report the number of subscribers in the useragent request to get the feed. You see something like this:

Bloglines/3.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 1542 subscribers)

According to FeedBurner's help tool, subscribers are calculated like so. If anything it's a low-ball estimate since you could have a lot of people using the same IP and reader at a big co like MS or Google:

'FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. Subscribers is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed.

Subscribers is calculated by matching IP address and feed reader combinations, and then using our detailed understanding of the multitude of readers and aggregators and bots on the market to make additional inferences.'
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