I have about half of my subscribers, subscribing via my Feedburner feed. The rest go through the main RSS2 feed produced by my WordPress blog.
Of those at Feedburner, they usually total 100 subscribers. However today when I logged on there were only 60-something showing up. I poked around in my Feedburner control panel and found out that the numbers that are logging aren’t showing up as the ‘actual numbers’.
For instance, when I look at the 7 day outlook, the screen says:
But when I look at the average from this week I get this:
Now, look at today’s stats (oddly enough, yesterday instead of the current day):
Where are all the folks from Bloglines? NetNewsWire is also being missed. I’m assuming this is a Feedburner reporting error and all will be well very soon. The forums aren’t talking about it, but it’s sad for me. 🙁
Yes Robyn, it must be a bug of some kind – they’re probably refreshing their stats engine or something, because I’ve had exactly the same happening to one of my blogs a couple of days ago. The very next day all my subscribers were shown properly again.
Thanks, I thought it might be that. Grrr…. 😉
I think this is not a bug. The number of subscribers on Feedburner varies because it only counts the readers that actually accessed your feed on that day. For example you might have 10 people who is subscribed via Firefox Live Feed, but if on a single day they will not “touch” their feed Feedburner will not count them. As soon as they “touch” the feed again Feedburner will them count them again.
This is actually a positive thing because it tells you how many people are actually reading the feed as opposed to how many are subscribed but not necessarily reading it.
I can see your subscribers are now back (stats show 109) and even brought some friends. 😉
This is annoying. I’ve had it vary by 10-15 in any given day, but I thought 50 was a tad buggy.
I did get 5 new ones yesterday as Yan said, so I’m content now… 😉
You could try this plugin to redirect your non-feedburner readers to feedburner:
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/