RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google
4 hours ago
- #rss-feeds
- #blog-traffic
- #web-analytics
- The author's personal blog receives about 25% of its traffic from RSS and email newsletter subscriptions, which is more than the traffic from Google.
- Lightweight, local statistics-gathering on the blog shows that Google is the top referrer, followed by DuckDuckGo, while Bing and social media like Twitter are minimal.
- Traffic tracking for RSS and newsletters is lossy, relying on events like image downloads, but the author prioritizes a rough overview over precise analytics and blocks AI crawlers.
- The blog occasionally sees surges from link aggregators like Hacker News or Reddit, but most traffic is steady from diverse sources, and the author values free subscriptions.
- A comment from another blogger notes that Google drives over half of their visitors, with search being primary, while social networks are insignificant in comparison.