How do I estimate the number of RSS subscribers?

Posted by Robert Kosara on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Robert Kosara
Published on 2010-04-20T13:21:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 13:24 UTC
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I'm running a website, and would like to get a better idea how many subscribers I have. I can check the number of subscribers on Google Reader for my two feeds (RSS and Atom). I also have access to my server logs, so I sometimes collect all the IP addresses that access the feeds over a month or so and do a uniq.

Is that an accurate way of doing this? Are there other feed aggregators that I need to take into account? Any pitfalls when just going by IP address?

I've also thought about embedding an image in the feeds to get a better count. But do all feed readers load images automatically?

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