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FYI: I'm fowarding this to the group in case anyone else can use this very helpful response! Thanks, Mark.
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<div>Counting RSS subscribers is a process of estimation, at best. Services like Feedblitz have the advantage of redirecting your users through their infrastructure, and thus abstracting away some of the process (at a cost), but really all you need to do is
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<div>In Drupal, your top-level RSS feed is /rss.xml and most of your other feeds will end in /feed - so you can quickly scrub the logs for these patterns, either in a tool like Google Analytics or by using your own script, to get a list of unique IP addresses
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<div>Of course, without forcing each and every "subscriber" (which is inherently a pull process, not a push process) to use a middleman and divulge personal information, you won't know if two+ unique humans from one unique IP address are subscribers :) But
it will at least give you the order of magnitude and maybe a bit better than that.</div>
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<div>There's a bit more info and a Perl script here:</div>
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<div><a href="http://alvinalexander.com/perl/how-many-rss-subscribers-apache-log-perl">http://alvinalexander.com/perl/how-many-rss-subscribers-apache-log-perl</a></div>
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<div>You'd want to alter the regex in that script to also pay attention to /feed, btw</div>
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<div>Does anyone have suggestions for an analytics service that will count the number of subscribers to a Drupal RSS feed? Feedburner is apparently on its way out. We are trying Feedblitz, which has its own RSS feed, but it's taking a lot of time to configure
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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