How do i know find out how many TOTAL subscribers i've had ALL TIME.

[alexrest]

If i want to see how many downloads i've had all time, there is a
really easy drop down menu that lets me choose "All Time" and then the
total number of downloads appears. But when i do the same thing with
subscribers, all i get is an AVERAGE. what if i want to see the total
number of subscribers that i've got since day one?

[Jellocat]

I would like to see the same thing - when I do all time I get a lower
number than if I look at it per month. I would like to know how many
overall subscribers there are. How do you do this?

[darkwing]

This is what I've decided to use as an upper-bound to the total number
of subscribers based on feedburner's definition of subscribers.

1) Take the average subscribers over the last 7 day, or last 30 days
depending on how often you post.
2) Divide the average subscribers from step 1) by the total number of
posts in the same time period.

My assumption is that most subscribers will read each post one time.
Those subscribers that read some posts more than once will cause this
number to be a little high. This depends a lot on your content too.
This also assumes that when they re-read they have to access your feed
again, but this differs for various feed readers. I would guess that
web based feed readers won't cache all the feeds. However, it looks
like Google Reader does because I've tried modifying a feed but the
changes don't appear. Feed readers could also cache a feed based on
how many subscribers there are according to them by using a lower-
limit of subscribers requirement. For example, Google Reader may not
cache a feed unless there are over 50 subscribers to that feed with
their reader (this is not necessarily true, just an example). In
reality, this calculation may be more accurate if most feed readers
(web-based or otherwise) do cache feeds.

Dustin

On Aug 1, 7:29 am, Jellocat wrote:
> I would like to see the same thing - when I do all time I get a lower
> number than if I look at it per month. I would like to know how many

> overallsubscribersthere are. How do you do this?

>
> On Jun 5, 7:15 am, alexrest wrote:
>
> > If i want to see how many downloads i've had all time, there is a
> > really easy drop down menu that lets me choose "All Time" and then the

> >totalnumber of downloads appears. But when i do the same thing with

> >subscribers, all i get is an AVERAGE. what if i want to see thetotal

> > number ofsubscribersthat i've got since day one?
>
>

[darkwing]

Oops! I forgot a step between 1) and 2).

1) Take the average subscribers over the last 7 day, or last 30 days
depending on how often you post.

2) Multiply the average subscribers for this time period by the
number of days in the time period.
3) Divide the number from step 2) by the total number of

posts in the same time period.

Dustin

On Aug 11, 12:52 pm, darkwing wrote:
> This is what I've decided to use as an upper-bound to thetotalnumber
> ofsubscribersbased on feedburner's definition ofsubscribers.
>

> 1) Take the averagesubscribersover the last 7 day, or last 30 days

> depending on how often you post.

> 2) Divide the averagesubscribersfrom step 1) by thetotalnumber of

> posts in the same time period.
>

> My assumption is that mostsubscriberswill read each post one time.
> Thosesubscribersthat read some posts more than once will cause this

> number to be a little high.  This depends a lot on your content too.
> This also assumes that when they re-read they have to access your feed
> again, but this differs for various feed readers.  I would guess that
> web based feed readers won't cache all the feeds.  However, it looks
> like Google Reader does because I've tried modifying a feed but the
> changes don't appear.  Feed readers could also cache a feed based on

> how manysubscribersthere are according to them by using a lower-
> limit ofsubscribersrequirement.  For example, Google Reader may not
> cache a feed unless there are over 50subscribersto that feed with