wondering if changed permalinks could alter stats

[corpod...@gmail.com]

I have a question.

A while ago my blog used the default kind of permalinks, and the feed
address ended like this: '?feed=rss2'.
Later I changed it, and now the RSS feed address is a simpler '/
feed/'.

My feedburner settings have been modified to reflect that, but I
always offered (and favored) the use of direct wordpress feeds, so
what happens is that I still have a considerable number of legacy
users that use the ?feed=rss2 address for their feeds, which still
works (I don't know why, but it's good it does).

Now I am using FeedBurnerStats, and I have enabled the user-agent
rewrite.. but the stats in feedburner don't really satisfy me. Only
counting the bloglines subscribers to my blog the number in the stats
should be much higher by now.
I think something is missing there, and I was wondering if it might as
well be that all my legacy '?feed=rss2' users are not counted at all,
since the feed address is now '/feed/'.

Is that possible?

[mst...@gmail.com]

> Now I am using FeedBurnerStats, and I have enabled the user-agent
> rewrite.. but the stats in feedburner don't really satisfy me. Only
> counting the bloglines subscribers to my blog the number in the stats
> should be much higher by now.
> I think something is missing there, and I was wondering if it might as
> well be that all my legacy '?feed=rss2' users are not counted at all,
> since the feed address is now '/feed/'.
>
> Is that possible?

It really shouldn't. The way FeedBurnerStats works is that it hooks
into the functioncalls that produce the feeds, so no matter how the
feeds are generated (either through .../feed/... or ...?feed=rss2)
FeedBurnerStats will kick in and send the proxied data to FeedBurner.
So no, I don't think your permalink change has altered your stats at
all.

Now, did you use FeedBurnerStats for a little bit before you changed
the permalink settings, or did you start using the plugin at the same
time? The problem with proxying the stats from your server is of
course that FeedBurner only sees your server IP address, but different
agents. The user agent rewrite functionality is supposed to compensate
for that, and it seems to work fine for me.

I would be interested to hear from others if they feel that their
subscriber count has dropped since they switched to the
FeedBurnerStats from using FeedBurner directly. If there's a
significant difference we need to look into improving the proxy.

Sincerely,
mstormo