by Andy
Feed Stats Strikes Back
You may remember Feed Stats: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: a way to track syndicated views on each post.
By “syndicated views” we mean the number of times somebody viewed your post via a feed. We’ll call views taking place on your blog “on-site views”.
We have been collecting data for several weeks and it’s time to show it. Here we have the first manifestation of Syndicated Views, which appears on the graph for each post. It reminds me of frosting on a cake:
Yum! We’re working on more ways to show this new data so keep your eyes peeled.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:24 am
This looks to be very cool. Thanks!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Awesome… rock on WP.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am
where can I find it in the dashboard?
January 12th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Nice!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Wunderbar! I was always sad to lose the feed stats, and am very glad to see this new feature :). When/how will we be able to use it?
PS any plans to count unique, returning visitors as well as page views?
January 12th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Dave On Fire, we’re bringing back those things bit by bit, and some more stuff you haven’t imagined yet.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:55 am
CoOl!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Brilliant. Thanks.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Wicked idea! This is so cool!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Lol. Great feature!!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Awesome! Thanks for doing this, I always wondered how many I got with RSS. I’m a young WordPress user so I’ve never used it.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:30 am
my stats are back ?? thats awesome !
tx guys and keep it on !
January 12th, 2008 at 2:42 am
This is a great feature. Although I’d really like it if there was an easy way to just view the raw numbers. I mean, what if your syndicated hits are lower than your site hits?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Hey, that IS cool.
Ok. Now what do I do with this info or make the syndicated feeds more prominent?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:16 am
wow matts this is great,now actualy i cn know how many people hv visited ma each post,kisssssssss to all u team guys and gals to ofcourse
January 12th, 2008 at 3:17 am
You say feed stats, I say Thank you very much!
Seems like you folks are working on these stats quite a bit, right?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:19 am
wonderful feature, nice. i am expecting more features.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Cool! Ty Donncha n’ WP!
January 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am
[...] is just the “first manifestation” of the second coming of feed stats, according to Andy’s announcement post. There’s way more to come, according to Matt via [...]
January 12th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Thats awesome!!!!!
Adam G
January 12th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Cool! Thanks WordPress!
~Adam
I Heart WordPress. <3
January 12th, 2008 at 3:43 am
it is cool
January 12th, 2008 at 3:51 am
It’s not ready yet? You’re just teasing us?
Want now!
January 12th, 2008 at 3:52 am
cooooool !!!! will look for some more features here… :with feed stats..
January 12th, 2008 at 3:54 am
That’s pretty cool! Just tried it out.
Thank you
January 12th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Very nice addition, Thank you
January 12th, 2008 at 4:06 am
What’s the use of this feature? Just to make our heads bigger, hey! LOL, anywyas, features that can’t be even thought of by a laymen, you guys already incorporate them to the wordpress application….. Kudos!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:11 am
I was really hoping that this idea would return. Feedburner hasn’t tracked anything for me in the two months I had it. -_-
Thanks a bunch, WP!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:16 am
You guys rock. Keep the good stuff coming.
It is no wonder I vote for you on the Crunchies daily.
Luke
January 12th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Will this be available with wordpress.com stats plugin users as well on just blogs on wordpress.com?
Trent
January 12th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Have I told you lately that I love you?
January 12th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Trent, no plans for it currently on the stats plugin, but because of the way it works now it’s definitely something we could do in the future.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:41 am
hey, thats really wonderfull,i had always wanted something like this
January 12th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Perfect! I love this feature.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Wait… how do I read this? Does it mean that you have more feed readers than onsite readers, or do you only count the “margin?” I mean, was your top feed stat closer to 3100 hits or closer to 300?
January 12th, 2008 at 5:33 am
raincoaster, it’s a stacked graph. So in the picture above there’s way more on-site readers than feed readers.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:44 am
That’s cool! Keep writing everyone.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Thanks guys! (yet once more)
January 12th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Great , just what i expecting for…
many thanks Andy
January 12th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Oh lord! I think I’m gonna have an organism! You guys rule! Thank You X 100. I’m going to roll around in my frosting as soon as I see it the first time!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Thank yo so much for doing this…I missed feed stats so much when you took them away. This is great. Even better actually.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Wow! That would be a neat addition to blog stats.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Wow! It’s great!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:28 am
What about simple bars, or the option to have it display as simple bars?
January 12th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I like this! I don’t see how to access this yet on my site!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:40 am
I love feed stats. Very sexy.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Fantastic!!! I was surprised when that feature was discontinued.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Yay! Thank you so much…I’ve really missed it.
I knew there was a reason I voted for you guys!
January 12th, 2008 at 7:12 am
wow, nice, brilliant. Waiting for more, now.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:59 am
That is useful. I like it.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Yay! That’s great!
January 12th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Kool let me try
January 12th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Let’s look how it works
January 12th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I was very sorry to see feed stats go I would like to see that come back.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Nice, good job.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am
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January 12th, 2008 at 8:56 am
One of the best news i’ve heard recently. I’m really happy to have feed stats back.
¡Enhorabuena, chicos!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Maybe you show syndicated and on-site views one above the other. The sum will make small blogs like mine look a little more impressive - at least to me
January 12th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Super
January 12th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Is this cool? I think this is cool…
What I love about you guys is that you make it all so easy for small fries like me!
Ich blogge auf deutsch. I blog in German.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Looks promising.I had wondered if feed stats would return in one form or another. Ta for the preview.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Wow, really cool! It’s great to have this feature back: it provides a much more informative view on the actual reach of one’s posts. It would be simply perfect if syndicated views could be also aggregated for the whole blog. I hope you consider this as a future extension. In the mean time, thank you for this new improvement!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Cool, Just what i wanted.
Any way could you like add bookmark it buttons to the end of each post on each blog as a little extra?
January 12th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Nice!
Thank you!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Good idea!
I take it that it’s not active yet, though?
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
o for awesome !
January 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Wow! That’s cool, thanks! :]
January 12th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Now that’s nifty!
T- xx
January 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Yessss, I wants it!
January 12th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Just what I’ve been looking forward to … Thanks!
January 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Nice !
Always helping with new features !
Thanks so much.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:30 am
You guys at WordPress are awesome. Always willing to give better stuff. Thank you so much. Yes, we are opening our eyes. Looking forward for this feature.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I guess this feature is icing on the wonderful wordpress cake!
January 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
January 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
BEST news –BEST feature I’ve seen since Feed Stats vanished. I don’t even care that the legend is positioned over long headlines. Brilliant, Donncha. Thanks to all involved. Well done. So good, guess I’ll stay, now. (–Left-overs from August melt-down still makes blogging difficult.)
January 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Excellent resource!
Thanks WP =)
January 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
This is cool. Thanks guys, it would be cool to integrate Feedburner into these stats too.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Yay! How exciting! I was just thinking about how it would be great to be able to see if anyone was using the feed to view my posts. Hurray!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Is the syndicated line just layered on top of the onsite ones? Or is it actually larger?
In other words, which is bigger in this example, on-site or syndicated.
It’s not clear.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
cool features
thanks andy
January 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Wow..Cool,
Thanks Matt
January 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Cool. I was really sad when you dropped feedstats. This sounds really promising. Can’t wait to see it in action.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I was waiting for this moment
January 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
So, what’s the graph saying? Is it that the vast majority of vists were on-site OR that on-site and syndicated were more or less 50-50 with a slight advantage to syndicated?
Tom
January 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Ooh, very cool!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Awesome.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’m glad that wordpress is constantly adding great new features.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I think that the figure you show is a bit confusing; is the number of syndicated views represented only by the thin strip of light blue shading (so that to get the actual number of syndicated views you have to subtract the on-site views from the total views for any date), or is the number of syndicated views greater than the number of on-site views, but follows a similar distribution?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Hey guys, this isn’t showing up in my stats yet… do I need to do something different to access this feature?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Can I sign up to beta test it? Please! I can’t wait
January 12th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Cool!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Thanks for re-introducing this feature! I’ve got many feed subscribers and was really delighted to find out how many read my post via a feed.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Wow you guys rock. I love WordPress!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Thank you. Feed Stats was one reason I had to start using Feedburner. A few questions though:
1. At this point of time, it seems that they are available only for individual posts. Do you intend to make blog wide stats available?
2. I really doubt this, but do you track if people view the blog from the feedburner feed?
3. Do you intend to support Blogger-like feed redirection (to feedburner say) anytime soon?
January 12th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
1. Yes.
2. If Feedburner leaves our pixel in, yes.
3. No.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Now that is a stat I would really appreciate having for the blog. Much more realistic than plain feed subscriptions.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
that is really cool. i know that helps me a lot. thanks!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Sounds great!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Frosting indeed!
The information looks yummy!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
and this is good because…
never mind, it’s just that it is of no use to me, I’m afraid
January 12th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Where is this feature? I can’t seem to find it anywhere…do I have to turn it on? Or is it not yet active on WordPress in general?
January 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
To see that graph you click on the little graph icon next to the post title on your “Top Posts and Pages” table in your blog stats. It’s been activated for everyone since the blog post.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Yeah!! I have really missed that feature & am so glad to see you bringing it back. Thank you!!!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Awesome. Keep the stats advancements coming!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
This sounds as though it could have potential for being useful information. However, there doesn’t seem to be much difference in the on-site views and the syndicated views as presented on the above graph, does this data display a graph where the syndicated line ever appears as less than the on-site views? or shall it only appear as above the on-site views?
I’m certain with some tweaking it could be made more useful, but it’s still more data on syndication than we had before, and that is appreciated!
-C
January 12th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
eyes are open!
January 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Looking forward to this!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
It’s going to be a fantastic feature! Nice job, m8s!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Thank you for this. Those are some stats I’ve been wanting to see.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Great idea.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
It is finally back! Missed it so much…
I believe more and more people are reaching out to other by feeds, so, thumb up!
January 12th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
WOW! GREAT JOB GUYS!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:44 am
That’s nice. I’ve been manual comparing the stats in Feedburner and the stats in WordPress to get a total for the views of my postings. Hopefully this eliminates that separate step. I’ll continue to compare the feedburner status over the next couple of weeks to see how the syndicated views #s compare to those in feedburner.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:50 am
nice, I missed them !
January 13th, 2008 at 1:27 am
It is more prudent. I would like this!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Thanks - so cool. Although I’m on an intermission period.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Oh! It’s stacked!
Just like raincoaster, I thought you had more Syndicated than onsite views. Perhaps some users might be misguided… How about non-stacked view too? Like, Syndicated views starting from the very bottom?
Anyway, like I said — great feature, I’m glad the stats are improving.
(gosh I’d like unique/returning visitors…
Cheers!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Nah, gitu dong.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:56 am
YYAAAAAAYYYY!!! Thanks guys! I was totally begging for Feed Stats, and now you’ve done even better… love it.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Would be nice if you told us where we could view this amazing new tool!!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:28 am
sounds good i was disappointed when the feed stats went away i hoped they would come back
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Very nice!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
thank you. I’m just a tiny bit bored,,, a bit more than I used to be and these stats should take up that slack time that I’m dealing with… sitting at my desk wondering which web stats I should look at now.
glad to see them back.
jb
January 13th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thanks! Keep it up.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Horeeee. Thank You so much Andy.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:27 am
very cool…
January 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Awsome!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Well done!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Cool!
Is this feature counting the feedburner subscribers of a wordprees.com blog?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Awesome
January 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I missed my feed stats! Thank you so much for bringing them back - and better than ever at that!
January 13th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Very nice addition!
Thanks for including this feature I had missed RSS feed. Now we can see where our readers are coming from on an easy to read graph. —-Zentraveler
January 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve missed the feed stat info….
January 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
nice work! I like it
January 13th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I always wanted to know which one of my 3 viewers was via feed. Awesome!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Waiting for this new feature, Good Work WP Team.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Thanks a ton.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:30 am
For those who can’t find it…
MANAGE->POSTS->Individual Post: Stats.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:42 am
i don’t think it’s on the Stats page on the dashboard, rather if you goto “Manage”, there’s a little graph icon next to each post. Click that.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Yooo… You serve us better and better everyday… Ta v much…
January 14th, 2008 at 7:29 am
just if this change came a little earlier
January 14th, 2008 at 7:53 am
very nice !
January 14th, 2008 at 7:57 am
You guys rock, seriously. And Support and innovation have been consistent. It’s much appreciated
January 14th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Very sweet feature! Thanks wordpress.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am
[...] Feed Stats Strikes Back [...]
January 14th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Can’t find it anywhere. Is that available for all users now, or it will be implemented soon?
January 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
That’ll be so cool!
January 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Oh god! I sorely miss feed stats! Bring it back!:’(
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
That is great! and long awaited
January 14th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Excellent - I look forward to exploring the stats. Thanks WP folks!
January 14th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Yes! It’s finaly back!
January 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Really thanks
I have 2 suggestion:
1. Please show our feed sates on our “Blog Stats” in “Dashboard”.
2. Please make a widget to let us show our blog feed readers in the sidbar of our blog.
Happy blogging
January 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
You’ve been doing an excelent and fantastic job. Thanks!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
An excellent idea! I’m always curious to know how many are reading me from “the outside.”
Thank you for your continued hard work on behalf of WP.com subscribers.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
cool! i’ll have to check that out!!! *oP
January 14th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I really missed my feed stats. Thanks for bringing them back!
January 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Wonderful! I always wondered if feed views were counted… I noticed the change when it happened. Thanks for explaining;
January 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Great. Now I need a support group for that addiction too.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I give. For the life of me, I can’t find out how to turn this on. Can you help?
January 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Wonderful! Thank you. I’ve been waiting for this a long time.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Ooo very nice.
January 15th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I like this!
January 15th, 2008 at 3:13 am
this is great it will help us track our post …
January 15th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Gotta love syndication!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:53 am
very.. very.. very.. good, so i can view alltime
good job brother 
January 15th, 2008 at 5:00 am
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January 15th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Yay.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:52 am
This is great! Have really missed the feed stats ever since they were pulled. This gives so much more precise information!
January 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
wow… wonderful
January 15th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Yeah, feed stats!
January 15th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
yeah I love that feature.. its great to see the mountain of views peak
or fall in my case.haha
January 15th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
woohoo!!!!!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Sweet! It’d be *great* to have the feed stats back!
January 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Smooth!
January 15th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I haven’t followed this all that closely but was there ever a point where we got a substantive explanation as to why the feed stats were just removed in the first place?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
[...] Stard Strike Back! You may remember Feed Stats: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: [...]
January 15th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Awesome…now where do I find this feature on my dashboard?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
very nice indeed
January 15th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
sweet! Thanks!
January 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Oh man! Oh man! Oh man! I can’t wait for this feature…
January 16th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Very nice.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Nice job again, thanks !!!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Awesome! And the “bringing back those things bit by bit, and some more stuff you haven’t imagined yet” part sounds delicious!
Just what kind of new features do you mean(besides adding more themes to select from)? Thanks for caring about the user`s experience!
January 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
verry nice!
January 17th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Wow… Great feature!!
Thanks for doing such great work and always improving the free service
January 17th, 2008 at 6:43 am
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January 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Thanks! Very cool features, but i’d rather see the overall feed stats… I miss them!
BTW, are you panning on counting comments as well?
January 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
That is awesome Andy. You sly devil!
January 18th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Cool
January 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am
thank you!
January 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
This mean that the readership for feed is slightly more than on-site. Also showing that the readership is dropping down since new year. Look like people read alot during the new year days. Maybe reading friend’s where about and doing?
January 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
That’s a really great feature! I always wondered how I could tell how many feed views my blog was getting, and now I know. Thanks!
January 19th, 2008 at 12:47 am
January 19th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Very cool.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Just a Big Thank You, Great !.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Hey thanks
I needed dat
January 20th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Not half bad stats! Currently I am looking at some huge traffic spikes, always a good thing!
January 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
“Doctor, will I see 3000 feed hits on my site after the procedure?”
“Of course!”
“Great! I couldn’t before!”
January 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Thank you Donncha and WP!
January 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Yes! Thanks!
January 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Very nice addition, Thank you
January 21st, 2008 at 10:17 am
Great! I for one have missed feed stats a lot, and it sure is nice to have this feature back in a new and better flavor.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
You/WordPress get/s a huge mental bonus for keeping track of relevant user stats.
Best regards!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
that would be amazing! I’m loving all the work you guys put into the site. Keep up the good works!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Love it!!! Thanks for all you do!!!!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:31 am
Individual post feed stats? YAY!
But whole blog feed stats would be wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better!
I’m just sayin’.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 am
Awesome work.
Rana
January 24th, 2008 at 1:48 am
nice!!
January 24th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Great !!!
January 24th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Wohhh!!!!!!!!! Nice one
January 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
A masterpiece!!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
this is really cool! hands down to WP.