http://blog.fredjean.net/articles/2006/12/23/feed-moved-to-feedburner en-us 40 Frederic Jean's Random Thoughts <p> I started using <a href="http://www.statcounter.com/">StatCounter</a> to keep statistics against this blog. I did like to see how many people were coming in and how they got here. It's certainly interesting to see how the traffic is affected by different actions I take (such as posting a comment on a different blog.) </p><p> The downside is that I had no way of knowing how many people were hitting my feed. You see, StatCounter works by adding a small snippet of Javascript to the HTML page. The different feed readers do not see the layout of the blog, so they never get to load the Javascript. Hence, no statistics for me. </p><p> That's where <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/">FeedBurner</a> comes in. FeedBurner retrieves the feed from my blog and massage it. Users are sent to the FeedBurner site to retrieve the feed. Each request is tracked, and statistics are generated. You can even add some cool little things to the feed itself. As a result, I'll be able to see how many people subscribe to my feed and get a better idea of who is visiting my blog. </p><p> You have nothing to change if you already subscribe to the feed. I have setup my web server to redirect requests for the old feed over to the new one. </p> Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:17:39 +0000 urn:uuid:66dd6680-23c7-43c7-93e5-1ca97b4daa69 fred@fredjean.net (Frederic Jean) http://blog.fredjean.net/articles/2006/12/23/feed-moved-to-feedburner General http://blog.fredjean.net/articles/trackback/68