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by nl 2483 days ago
Back when RSS was a thing cloud based readers pass on the number of readers when requesting the feed. Analytics software would use this.

I'd be surprised if this has completely atrophied away.
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ddrager 2482 days ago
Which analytics software uses this? We primarily use Google Analytics, the user agent from the web server log file isn't getting passed back to them.
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nl 2482 days ago
No Javascript analytics software can do this. It has to be log based.
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