Comments on: FeedBurner-numbers explained http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/09/13/feedburner-numbers-explained/ michael kamleitner - web-consultant & -developer, vienna Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:35:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: subnet http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/09/13/feedburner-numbers-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 subnet Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:27:24 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=336#comment-1608 thx for your comment & thx for pointing out the fact that newsreaders report their reader-numbers back to you - interesting, didn't know about that! the forum is really worth a look! thx for your comment & thx for pointing out the fact that newsreaders report their reader-numbers back to you – interesting, didn’t know about that!

the forum is really worth a look!

]]> By: jessiec@feedburner.com http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/09/13/feedburner-numbers-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-1605 jessiec@feedburner.com Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:51:06 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=336#comment-1605 Hi Michael, Thanks for checking out the post. You're right , large aggregators poll differently as noted in this line from the post: "To illustrate, the popular Web-based aggregator, MyYahoo!, may poll 3 times a day on behalf of thousands of people while the desktop aggregator, FeedDemon polls every half hour on behalf of 1 person" As far as a more technical explanation for this, large aggregators report their official number of subscribers they are polling on behalf of each time they poll us in the header of the request. Hope this clarifies it and feel free to drop us a line at feedback@feedburner.com or on our forums at http://forums.feedburner.com (we have a specific stats forum) for more explanations or questions. Thanks again, Jessie Chavez FeedBurner Engineering Team Hi Michael,

Thanks for checking out the post. You’re right , large aggregators poll differently as noted in this line from the post:

“To illustrate, the popular Web-based aggregator, MyYahoo!, may poll 3 times a day on behalf of thousands of people while the desktop aggregator, FeedDemon polls every half hour on behalf of 1 person”

As far as a more technical explanation for this, large aggregators report their official number of subscribers they are polling on behalf of each time they poll us in the header of the request.

Hope this clarifies it and feel free to drop us a line at feedback@feedburner.com or on our forums at http://forums.feedburner.com (we have a specific stats forum) for more explanations or questions.

Thanks again,
Jessie Chavez
FeedBurner Engineering Team

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