RSS Stats: Google Finally Stands Up To Be Counted
Bloggers everywhere woke up to a nice surprise. Their feed statistics jumped overnight! How did this happen? Google is finally reporting FeedBurner statistics. Finally? Yes – they didn’t used to report numbers to Feedburner so the statistics were skewed on the downside. Bloggers could only guess what the number might be and no one had a way to compare the popularity of feed readers.
It seems that Google Reader is far out pacing Bloglines as the reader of choice. Here are some numbers from b5media as reported by Jeremy Wright, CEO:
For those who are wondering what that shift looks like, here are our top 10 feed readers, with subscriber numbers (and overall market share for our readers):
Google Feedfetcher: 14375 (29%)
Bloglines: 7774 (16%)
Firefox Live Bookmarks: 6062 (14%)
Newsgator Online: 2644 (5%)
Google Desktop: 2313 (5%)
My Yahoo: 1678 (3%)
Netvibes: 1625 (3%)
A Java-based feed reader: 1153 (3%)
Rojo: 955 (2%)
Windows RSS Platform: 779 (2%)
You can see the impact of Google’s reporting in these numbers alone. Without the Google numbers Bloglines appeared to be the winner, but with the ‘real’ numbers, it is obvious that Google is ahead by a lot.
So, it does seem like Google Reader is a winner.
