I know a lot of folks out there use FeedBurner to outsource the hosting and metrics of their RSS feeds. I've not done so (yet?) but am curious about one thing.

If you use FeedBurner, what percentage of your overall subscribers are using Bloglines?

You might think that this is a roundabout way of asking trying to ascertain Bloglines share of the "market" but it's not. I believe there's enough bias in the types of people who even use Bloglines that the number I'm asking for aren't terribly meaningful in getting at their share of the market.

Any, please share if you have such data. I've always assumed (meaning that I pulled this out of my ass) that Bloglines represents between 30% and 50% of my subscribers. But for all I know, I'm way, way off.

Your numbers could help to triangulate a bit. In fact, I suspect they'll help a lot of people wondering the same thing.

Posted by jzawodn at August 10, 2006 04:41 PM

Reader Comments
# Rob Hyndman said:

Hovers around 30%.

on August 10, 2006 04:56 PM
# kellan said:

49%

on August 10, 2006 05:06 PM
# Josh Bancroft said:

29% on a sample size of about 900 subscribers.

on August 10, 2006 05:09 PM
# Ken Norton said:

42.5% as of this moment.

on August 10, 2006 05:10 PM
# Aaron Brazell said:

23% here

on August 10, 2006 05:16 PM
# soxiam said:

18%

on August 10, 2006 05:16 PM
# Bill Boebel said:

Out of 67 subscribers, 9% use Bloglines, 45% use Webmail.us RSS. But I guess my subscribers are biased.

on August 10, 2006 05:23 PM
# Joseph Scott said:

FeedBurner claims that 8% of my feed readers are for Bloglines. I should note that the raw number of Bloglines readers in FeedBurner is different than the Bloglines number of people subscribed to my feed, by 24. Adding the difference to the FeedBurner numbers brings it up to 19%.

on August 10, 2006 05:23 PM
# Jason Schramm said:

24% on a small number of readers.

on August 10, 2006 05:35 PM
# Andrei Z said:

I have two feeds. Bloglines accounts for 17% on one and 30% on the other.

on August 10, 2006 05:43 PM
# Mike said:

I only have one Bloglines subscriber that isn't me. So, probably about 5%.

on August 10, 2006 05:48 PM
# Carlos Jorge Andrade said:

25%

on August 10, 2006 06:01 PM
# Barry Schwartz said:

33% for one feed with over 4,000 subscribers
36% for the other feed with over 500 subscribers.

Past 30 days data.

on August 10, 2006 06:09 PM
# Jeramey Jannene said:

16.6 percent. No idea why I'm so much lower percentage wise than everyone else.

on August 10, 2006 06:28 PM
# Darren said:

42% of users for my personal site.

For a site that's strictly a technology podcast which I've got access to, Bloglines subscribers make up 11% (after, obviously, iTunes).

I'd be curious to hear which way you think Bloglines users are biased? I don't disagree, but I'm curious about your opinion on the subject.

on August 10, 2006 06:30 PM
# vanderwal said:

Bloglines is my largest single reader, it is usually 35 to 40%, today it was 39%.

on August 10, 2006 06:44 PM
# Karl said:

33% Bloglines
22% Firefox Live Bookmarks

on August 10, 2006 07:16 PM
# nate koechley said:

Other = 37%
Bloglines = 19%
NetNewsWire = 12%
NewsGator = 12%
Firefox Live Bookmarks = 10%
Apple CFNetwork = 5%
Thunderbird = 5%

on August 10, 2006 07:17 PM
# Bob said:

Sorry, I don't have a blog - but I am also curious about your thoughts on bloglines user bias... I feel stuck with it because I bounce between 3 different computers regularly (and even more irregularly) and value the access. In a lot of ways it bugs the hell out of me, but I'm not aware of any hosted service that is close (Y! Mail beta is slow and clunky (and feature-poor wrt RSS), though it's more usable than My.Y!).

on August 10, 2006 07:42 PM
# Brad Feld said:

31%. However, there are a problems with this number. Most notably, it's the absolute count that Bloglines is reporting to FeedBurner. Unfortunately, it's impossible to "cancel" a Bloglines account, so if you are no longer using Bloglines (and using something else), you still show up in the Bloglines number. A few months ago, FeedBurner started reporting a new metric called "Reach" which is the number of people that actually read your feed in the past 24 hours. My "reach" is usually 25% - 30% of total subscribers. FeedBurner is not yet reporting reach by user-agent (e.g. aggregator) - that's coming soon - and will be a much better indicator of "active users" and aggregrator share.

on August 10, 2006 08:07 PM
# EricB said:

42%

on August 10, 2006 11:10 PM
# Haas said:

I use FeedBurner and according to it:
Total Sub: 36
Bloglines: 5
Abilon: 11
FeedBlitz: 5
Firefox Bookmarks: 3
Other Aggr/unknown: 12

So around 1/7th of my feed sub use Bloglines... Most other services are pretty popular too

on August 10, 2006 11:12 PM
# Deepak said:

Varies between 29 and 33 percent.

on August 10, 2006 11:24 PM
# Pat Berry said:

Bloglines: 21% right now

Bounces be 15-25%

on August 10, 2006 11:27 PM
# markus said:

German Blog!

347 subscribers, 10% ( 34 ) bloglines, TOP: Firefox Live Bookmarks: 40% ( 139 )

on August 11, 2006 02:02 AM
# Emmanuel said:

French blog

Bloglines at 2,8 %
Netvibes at 56 % (Netvibes.com completely change the market in the last 6 months in France)

on August 11, 2006 02:12 AM
# liam morrison said:

Currently 46% Bloglines.

on August 11, 2006 02:52 AM
# John said:

24% Bloglines, 9% Firefox Live, & 36% R-Mail. 938 Subs.

on August 11, 2006 05:45 AM
# Richi Jennings said:

25%, fairly consistently

on August 11, 2006 05:49 AM
# Mike M said:

Bloglines = 16% for me (which is the highest percentage behind "other")...

on August 11, 2006 06:15 AM
# John Roberts said:

28% Bloglines
26% Other
21% My Yahoo
10% NewsGator Online
8% Rojo
4% NetNewsWire

on August 11, 2006 07:06 AM
# Martin Albisetti said:

21% Bloglines
25% Firefox Live Bookmarks
10% Netvibes
7% Rojo
5% Lifearea

on August 11, 2006 07:38 AM
# Sylvain Carle said:

28% that's the top identified aggregator, followed by Netvibes, Firefox Live Bookmarks, NetNewsWire and NewsGator Online (about 10-15% each). Other readers take a whole 32%.

on August 11, 2006 11:38 AM
# Chris Shiflett said:

21% Bloglines

on August 11, 2006 01:44 PM
# Bill Flitter said:

We track and report feed reader share in a quarterly report:
http://www.pheedo.info/archives/000337.html

Bloglines 30%
MyYahoo! 18%
NewsGator Family of readers 14%

Cheers,
Bill Flitter
Pheedo, Inc

on August 11, 2006 09:01 PM
# Ellango said:

22% here

on August 12, 2006 11:05 AM
# Paul Stamatiou said:

Other 28%
Firefox Livemarks 22%
Bloglines 20%
Newsgator 11%
NetNewsWire 8%
Netvibes 5%
G Desktop 5%

for my avg. of 1925 subscribers

on August 12, 2006 11:44 PM
# marc said:

Bloglines: 11%

on August 14, 2006 07:07 AM
# Chris Gemignani said:

Here's our market share, as it were:

28% Bloglines
25% firefox live bookmarks
18% RMail (email subscriptions which we promote to our non-tech audience)
8% NewsGator online

on a base of about 600 subs.

on August 14, 2006 09:29 AM
# stephen o'grady said:

29% here on totals of just over 1200. next closest is newsgator at 13%.

on August 14, 2006 06:20 PM
# WoW!ter said:

On my Dutch library blog I do have 216 subscribers using my feedburner feed. Of these 124 (57%) use Bloglines. Netvibes has been hot here, and holds second place with 39 (18%) subscribers and FeedReader holds third place with only 9 (4%) subscribers.
Apart from that there are still about 16 bloglines users that don't subscribe through my feedburner feed, but use the atom feed directly. Which make you wonder about the other users that subscribe directly.

on August 15, 2006 07:38 AM
# Alex Barnett said:

Hovered between the 20% and 25% mark across two seperate feeds (one has 1,300) the other has 1,000+.

On the first feed, #2 is Netvibes at 18%2% and 34% 'unknown'. Remainder are made of usual suspects.

More details of mine here: http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2006/07/03/655527.aspx

on August 15, 2006 09:46 PM
# Matt said:

We don't use Feedburner, but a homegrown feedstats system that is bad in similar ways. Across every feed on WordPress.com, Bloglines is third after Newsgator and Netvibes. Newsgator might be unusually high because of Scoble. Depending on how you count browsers and other junk, Bloglines is between 15-25%.

on August 16, 2006 11:48 PM
# VentStation.com said:

Got to say we love the Bloglines service :)

on August 17, 2006 02:55 PM
# Mike McDerment said:

Across about 5 FeedBurner feeds I find - consistently - it is almost exactly 10%...almost everytime. It's gotten to the point where I use the number of bloglines readers of a feed (lets say 250) to estimate the total readership (i.e. 2500).

on August 24, 2006 11:11 AM
# Nicole Simon said:

Usually I find them to be roughly a third of my subscribers, on the english as well as the german blogs. But this probably also has to do with my kind of audience - many use bloglines becuse they have more than one computer and that is the way to share your feeds with that.

on December 15, 2006 05:56 PM
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