Over on the FeedBurner Weblog, Dick writes about My Yahoo Subscriber Numbers, noting that the numbers were stuck for a while and that things are now better.
I checked in with Scott Gatz at My Yahoo to get the scoop. Here's what I found out.
- The bug lasted from October until last week. So it may have looked like My Yahoo users stopped subscribing to your feed for several months.
- The bug was confirmed and fixed this week.
- The subscriber count is generated from a rolling 30 day look at who actively viewed your feed(s) in the 30 days. The numbers are currently updated on a weekly basis. They're working in reducing that delay.
So re-check your stats. Remember that YahooFeedSeeker will leave a note in the User-Agent field of your server logs:
YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; ...; users 100; views 2511)
Any questions? Leave 'em in the comments.
Posted by jzawodn at January 25, 2005 12:52 PM
Hey Jeremy - i've been looking for a way to find out how many subscribers have my feed on my.yahoo - is this what your talking about?
If so, where do i find it? I know it's stupid but i love these little ways of keeping score - 150 bloglines subs now heh... :)
Nick
Nick,
Check the access log on your web server.
See the FAQ http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html for more info.
ahh.. ok, just thought there might be something like how bloglines does it. thanks jermemy..
I checked out this link you referenced, http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html, but it's still not clear how you can see how many people are reading your posts/feed through Yahoo. Is there a code or link to check this out? Thanks for any more info on this you can provide.
Jeremy I was curious about the same thing as everyone else and I dont seem to see a resolution here to what they were asking. I too glanced over the artcile and used good ol' control F. I keep track of user agents in the script I use to track how many people have recently visited the site. After I had initially wrote the link for my button to add my feed to your MyYahoo page I looked at the log file I generate and saw some info in the user agent. Is there anyway that this info can be queried on yahoo real time? Thanks again. BTW I love your page I have added it to my links section. It's nice to see yahoo allowing employees to openly blog there feelings/ideas. I have been reading the site almost daily since I first found it while searching for info on XML weather data.
Just wondering if the counts are still being updated. It seems like mine hasn't moved (at FeedBurner), up or down, for a long time -- more than 30 days. In fact, I think it jumped when they fixed this bug and hasn't budged since.
