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by manuelmoreale 38 days ago
Same experience. RSS is by far the most requested resource in the server logs. Sometimes up to 70% of the total traffic is coming from RSS. That said though, I wonder how much of that traffic is biological and how much is bots.

I also wonder how much is dead traffic. Dead as in people who add a ton of stuff in their RSS readers but don’t actually read.

RSS is a bit of a black box when it comes to this but maybe that's a good thing.

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> RSS is a bit of a black box when it comes to this

It's not, if you add a tracking parameter in the posted URLs and you keep track of that in your analytics.

I have 220k unread items in my feed reader.
Anything good?