Sudden Drop in Feedburner Subscribers

The number of subscribers that Feedburner reports hs suddenly dropped. Here, from a total of 153, it dropped to 92. This includes email subscribers and RSS subscribers to the different feeds I provide.

I’m addicted to statistics. I know that staring at numbers is usually a wste of time, but I can’t help myself. During the last months, I’ve seen the number of subscribers to my blog steadily grow. The subscriber numbers are updated every morning (Israeli time), and I check them out as part of my regular morning routine. This morning, I was disappointed…

Checking out some other blogs that publish their stats, I found that their numbers have dropped as well. I guess that one of the big web RSS readers such as Google Reader, Bloglines or Netvibes suddenly stopped reporting the number of subscribers.

I hope that the numbers will get back to the higher level…

Post post: Beth updates (in the comments) that the drop is related to Google’s RSS readers, probably the desktop reader. Thanks Beth!

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