Feedburner stats outage for Google RSS Reader
I logged into my blog's control panel today to do a little work on some upcoming posts and the first thing I noticed was that my Feedburner count showed only 66 RSS readers which is about half of the normal count. Now I know that half of my readers did not decide they don't like my blog anymore and unsubscribed to my feed so I set out to find the problem. I started with looking at other bloggers feedburner subscription counts and sure enough many were significantly lower than their previous numbers as well so I moved on and decided to log into my feedburner account.
After logging into my account the first thing I saw was the graph of my RSS stats where I took the massive hit losing nearly half of my subscribers (Ouch). I then moved on to the subscriber breakdown and sure enough the biggest piece of the pie was missing - Google RSS Reader count. So it looks as though for some reason the stats from Google's RSS Reader are not being counted. I expect that this outage will be restored perhaps on Monday when everyone is back at work or it may be fixed sometime this weekend. The unlikely alternative is that Google doesn't restore these figures and instead decides to go back to their original format of not releasing it's Google RSS Reader count information (which I doubt they will do).
How far did your RSS count drop?
Update: Stats outage has been restored.
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I have also noticed this and my feed count dropped by 24. Its a bit annoying but hopefully it will be fixed sooner rather than later.
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I knew that FeedBurner wasn’t always accurate, but yesterday when my subscribers were half of the day before I thought something was amiss. Thanks for clearing this up and posting it. When you only have 9 subscribers and it drops to 4 you get a little concerned.
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[...] 50% starting sometime Thursday last week (May 8th). I noticed one other person reporting a drop and they pointed to Google Reader numbers being the culprit and, sure enough, if you look at the two graphs below, my Google Reader numbers [...]
My count went down today, not last week or this weekend….in fact, it went up then. I even posted about it lol.
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