The Feedburner Myth該feedburner神話

If you’re a blogger like me, do you find yourself waiting patiently each morning to see your Feedburner count chicklet update?如果您是Blogger和我一樣，你會發現自己耐心等待，每天早上看到您的feedburner計數chicklet更新？ If it’sa good day, you’ll see a little jump that offers a cheap thrill, if it’s not such a good day, there will be a drop that will sadden your heart for the rest of the day.如果是好天，您會看到一個小跳轉，提供一個廉價的刺激，如果沒有這麼好的天，會有一個下降，這將傷心你的心，為其餘的一天。 But, did you ever stop to think how much of slave to this silly little number you have become?但是，你有沒有想過停下來覺得有多少的奴隸，這愚蠢的小數目，您已成為？ I did and I’ve decided it has to stop.我和我已經決定它必須停止。

Feedburner count seems to bob up and down feedburner計數，似乎到Bob的UP和DOWN like a, well, I-don’t-know-what.就像一個，那麼，我-日程-知道是什麼。 It’s never stable, it varies day-by-day, sometimes there will be huge spikes, sometimes there will be big drops.這是從來沒有穩定，不同每天，有時會有巨大的刺，有時會有大的下降。 What one would expect for a passive subscription service is a fairly steady increase as a site grows, not all this sinusoidal activity.什麼人會期望一個被動的訂閱服務，是一個相當穩定增長，作為一個網站的成長，並非所有這正弦活動。 However, you can take solace in the fact that most of these ups and downs do not reflect real changes in your subscriber numbers but are simply down to glitches, bugs, and the way people access their feeds depending on the day of the week.不過，您可以採取安慰，在事實上，大部分的這些波折起伏，不反映現實的變化，在您登記的電話號碼，但只是下降到故障，錯誤，方式和人進入他們的飼料，視乎當天的一周。

Picture this.圖片。 I find a fascinating site.我覺得有趣的網站。 Read a couple of posts think, “Hey, this is good stuff”,讀一對夫婦的職位，認為： “餵，這是好東西” ， click the orange按一下橙色 and add the site’s RSS feed to my newsreader.並添加網站的RSS饋送到我的新聞廣播。 You can您可以 add the Sig Figs feed to Google Reader新增SIG的無花果飼料，以Google閱讀器 , right now, for instance). ，現在的權利，例如） 。 So, from now on I get regular RSS updates for that site, read stuff that I find interesting, and basically forget about it.所以，從現在起我得到定期的RSS更新該網站，閱讀的東西，我覺得有趣的，基本上忘記它。 It happens everyday for thousands upon thousands, if not millions of feeds.它每天都發生成千上萬，如果不是以百萬計的飼料。

However, occasionally the Google Reader servers fail to report their pings to Feedburner.不過，偶爾Google閱讀器服務器無法報告他們的坪至feedburner 。 So, maybe that site I visited had 23 subscribers from Google Reader among 112 total subscribers.所以，也許該網站，我訪問了23個用戶從Google閱讀器之間的共112人訂閱。 Next day when the site owner checks their feedcount, they find they’re down 23 to 89.第二天，當網站所有者檢查他們的feedcount ，他們覺得他們正在下跌了23至89歲。 Sad day.悲哀的一天。 Then, overnight the Google glitch is fixed, numbers are reported again and the feedcount is back up and has maybe gained a couple of new Google readers into the bargain, so the count is 114.然後，通宵的Google故障，這是一個固定號碼報導，再次和feedcount是備份，並可能獲得一對夫婦的新的Google讀者進入討價還價，所以計數是114 。 Happy day.幸福的一天。

Google Reader miscounts are not the only problem. Google閱讀器miscounts不是唯一的問題。 A recent reporting bug for the Feedblitz RSS to email service had sites with a few dozen or a few hundred subscribers suddenly reporting leaps to several thousand.最近一項報告錯誤，為feedblitz RSS來的電子郵件服務的網站已與幾十或幾百個訂戶突然報告的跨越幾千。 Happy day?幸福的一天？ Not really, after a few hours the blogosphere learned of the bug and all those who thought they had passed some kind of subscriber tipping point were back down to earth after a few days once the bug was fixed.不是真的，數小時後博客據悉，該錯誤和所有那些誰以為他們已通過某種形式的登記小費點回落到地球幾天後，一旦小蟲是固定的。

Another problem is the types of news readers your subscribers are using.另一個問題是，該類型的新聞，讀者您的訂閱者使用。 My Sciencebase science news site is listed in the default feeds offered to users of the Snarfer news aggregator program for instance.我sciencebase科學新聞網站列在默認的飼料向用戶提供的snarfer新聞聚合程序，例如。 As such, the site has gained a not insignificant number of subscribers who choose to add the Sciencebase feed that way.這樣，該網站已經取得了不小的數目訂閱誰選擇添加sciencebase飼料的方法。 However, the variation in how people use this kind of program day to day and more specifically at weekends or holidays as opposed to working days varies considerably.不過，變化的人們如何使用此種計劃每天更具體地說，在週末或假期，作為反對工作日內差別很大。

The subscriber numbers reported by standalone (offline) feed readers can run hot and cold depending on the day of the week.登記號碼報導，由獨立（離線）飼料讀者可以運行熱和冷定於天的週。 If it’sa program users install on home machines then numbers will be higher at weekends, because that’s when they’re most likely to use their home machine.如果這是程序安裝在用戶家的機器，然後人數會更高在週末，因為這是當他們最有可能利用他們的家機器。 In contrast, online readers, such as Bloglines, Google Reader, My Yahoo!在相比之下，網上讀者，如向Bloglines ， Google讀者，我的Yahoo ！ tend to be used more frequently during the working week and so subscriber numbers for these systems add more to the total count on weekdays because users cannot install or use a standalone reader on a work or school machine.往往是用更頻繁地在工作週，所以用戶數量為這些系統添加更多的總數，於平日，因為用戶不能安裝或使用一個獨立的讀者在一個工作地點或學校的機器。

Of course, there is some natural attrition.當然，也有一些自然減員。 Some people do remove feeds from their lists.有些人做刪除信息從他們的名單。 However, I have well over 250 feeds in Google Reader alone, and I know other journalists who have thousands.不過，我已遠遠超過250飼料在Google閱讀器，單，我知道其他記者誰有數以千計。 There is simply no time to worry about deleting feeds one may have outgrown or that have stagnated, you simply ignore the headlines from anything that doesn’t appeal and read the decent stuff.是根本不存在的時間去擔心刪去供稿一可能有超越，或停滯不前，您只需忽視的頭條新聞從任何不上訴，並宣讀了體面的東西。

As such, your Feedburner count may bob up and down like the proverbial “i-don’t-know-what” over the course of days depending on feed aggregator usage, reporting errors, and other vagaries.因此，您的feedburner計數可能鮑勃向上和向下像諺語： “我-日程-知道是什麼”的過程中天，視乎供稿匯集的使用，申報的數字有誤差，和其他變幻莫測。 It’s one of the reasons I don’t display the Feedburner chicklet on this site.它的原因之一，我不顯示feedburner chicklet關於這個站點。 You can您可以 reveal the Feedburner count揭示了feedburner計數 of many sites even if they don’t choose to display it.許多網站他們即使選擇不顯示它。

Anyway, as long as your site itself is active and growing and adding great new content on a regular basis, you should see a general upward trend in feedcount, but there’s no real need to check the count every day is there?無論如何，只要您的網站本身就是積極的和不斷增長和加入新的偉大的內容，定期的基礎上，您應該會看到一個一般的上升趨勢，在feedcount ，但有沒有真正的需要檢查計數每一天都是有？