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(This is not neccesarily pepper development question, but this forum seemed more appropriate than the Troubleshooting one)
My number of subscribers as tracked by Bird Feeder seems significantly higher (80%) than when I used Feedback or Feed Burner. Is the logic that decides on what a subscriber is different between the 3? Does one use/not use bots and other crawlers vs. just true humans e.g.?
Bird Feeder identifies unique subscribers using a hash based on a combination of ip and useragent string. In some cases a subscriber is an online aggregator requesting the feed on behalf of a number of subscribers. Bird Feeder replaces an existing request from a unique subscriber with updated subscriber counts from the latest request so the numbers should be really accurate.
I don’t how exactly how Feedback or Feedburner tabulate their numbers.
Do you use the subscriber count in the user agent of some web based aggregators? I know Bloglines includes it, Newsgator doesn’t. Does Google’s reader do it?
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