The Feedburner Myth该feedburner神话

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和我一样，你会发现自己耐心等待，每天早上看到您的feedburner计数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，您会看到一个小跳转，提供一个廉价的刺激，如果没有这么好的天，会有一个下降，这将伤心你的心，为其余的一天。 But, did you ever stop to think how much of slave to this silly little number you have become?但是，你有没有想过停下来觉得有多少的奴隶，这愚蠢的小数目，您已成为？ I did and I’ve decided it has to stop.我和我已经决定它必须停止。

Feedburner count seems to bob up and down feedburner计数，似乎到Bob的UP和DOWN like a, well, I-don’t-know-what.就像一个，那么，我-日程-知道是什么。 It’s never stable, it varies day-by-day, sometimes there will be huge spikes, sometimes there will be big drops.这是从来没有稳定，不同每天，有时会有巨大的刺，有时会有大的下降。 What one would expect for a passive subscription service is a fairly steady increase as a site grows, not all this sinusoidal activity.什么人会期望一个被动的订阅服务，是一个相当稳定增长，作为一个网站的成长，并非所有这正弦活动。 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.不过，您可以采取安慰，在事实上，大部分的这些波折起伏，不反映现实的变化，在您登记的电话号码，但只是下降到故障，错误，方式和人进入他们的饲料，视乎当天的一周。

Picture this.图片。 I find a fascinating site.我觉得有趣的网站。 Read a couple of posts think, “Hey, this is good stuff”,读一对夫妇的职位，认为： “喂，这是个好东西” ， click the orange按一下橙色 and add the site’s RSS feed to my newsreader.并添加网站的RSS馈送到我的新闻广播。 You can您可以 add the Sig Figs feed to Google Reader新增SIG的无花果饲料，以Google阅读器 , right now, for instance). ，现在的权利，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，从现在起我得到定期的RSS更新该网站，阅读的东西，我觉得有趣的，基本上忘记它。 It happens everyday for thousands upon thousands, if not millions of feeds.它每天都发生成千上万，如果不是以百万计的饲料。

However, occasionally the Google Reader servers fail to report their pings to Feedburner.不过，偶尔Google阅读器服务器无法报告他们的坪至feedburner 。 So, maybe that site I visited had 23 subscribers from Google Reader among 112 total subscribers.所以，也许该网站，我访问了23个用户从Google阅读器之间的共112人订阅。 Next day when the site owner checks their feedcount, they find they’re down 23 to 89.第二天，当网站所有者检查他们的feedcount ，他们觉得他们正在下跌了23至89岁。 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.然后，通宵的Google故障，这是一个固定号码报道，再次和feedcount是备份，并可能获得一对夫妇的新的Google读者进入讨价还价，所以计数是114 。 Happy day.幸福的一天。

Google Reader miscounts are not the only problem. Google阅读器miscounts不是唯一的问题。 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.最近一项报告错误，为feedblitz RSS来的电子邮件服务的网站已与几十或几百个订户突然报告的跨越几千。 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，数小时后博客据悉，该错误和所有那些谁以为他们已通过某种形式的登记小费点回落到地球几天后，一旦小虫是固定的。

Another problem is the types of news readers your subscribers are using.另一个问题是，该类型的新闻，读者您的订阅者使用。 My Sciencebase science news site is listed in the default feeds offered to users of the Snarfer news aggregator program for instance.我sciencebase科学新闻网站列在默认的饲料向用户提供的snarfer新闻聚合程序，例如。 As such, the site has gained a not insignificant number of subscribers who choose to add the Sciencebase feed that way.这样，该网站已经取得了不小的数目订阅谁选择添加sciencebase饲料的方法。 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.不过，变化的人们如何使用此种计划每天更具体地说，在周末或假期，作为反对工作日内差别很大。

The subscriber numbers reported by standalone (offline) feed readers can run hot and cold depending on the day of the week.登记号码报道，由独立（离线）饲料读者可以运行热和冷定于天的周。 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.如果这是程序安装在用户家的机器，然后人数会更高在周末，因为这是当他们最有可能利用他们的家机器。 In contrast, online readers, such as Bloglines, Google Reader, My Yahoo!在相比之下，网上读者，如向Bloglines ， Google读者，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.往往是用更频繁地在工作周，所以用户数量为这些系统添加更多的总数，于平日，因为用户不能安装或使用一个独立的读者在一个工作地点或学校的机器。

Of course, there is some natural attrition.当然，也有一些自然减员。 Some people do remove feeds from their lists.有些人做删除信息从他们的名单。 However, I have well over 250 feeds in Google Reader alone, and I know other journalists who have thousands.不过，我已远远超过250饲料在Google阅读器，单，我知道其他记者谁有数以千计。 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.是根本不存在的时间去担心删去供稿一可能有超越，或停滞不前，您只需忽视的头条新闻从任何不上诉，并宣读了体面的东西。

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计数可能鲍勃向上和向下像谚语： “我-日程-知道是什么”的过程中天，视乎供稿汇集的使用，申报的数字有误差，和其他变幻莫测。 It’s one of the reasons I don’t display the Feedburner chicklet on this site.它的原因之一，我不显示feedburner chicklet关于这个站点。 You can您可以 reveal the Feedburner count揭示了feedburner计数 of many sites even if they don’t choose to display it.许多网站，即使他们没有选择显示它。

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?无论如何，只要您的网站本身就是积极的和不断增长和加入新的伟大的内容，定期的基础上，您应该会看到一个一般的上升趋势，在feedcount ，但有没有真正的需要检查计数每一天都是有？