RSS Usage at Its Peak?

[petercasier]

I use a range of feedreaders and aggregators, but I only use them to get an overview of what is going on. If the title and/or summary seems interesting, I ALWAYS go to the original site.

Reading the stuff only on feedreaders and aggregators has people miss a lot of stuff on the site/blog itself (related posts, comments, stuff in the sidecolumns etc..). So I feel RSS is an addition, but not a substitute for the original thing.

P.

[petercasier]

1/ An interesting statistic we could all verify on our own blog, to measure the impact of RSS: what would be the growth we see of visitors on our blog versus subscribers to RSS feeds.

I have about 500 visitors per day, and 220 RSS subscribers.

2/ Another interesting phenomenon is that since I started to use Twitter to 'socialize' more with like minded people, not only did the amount of people who visited my blog take a small jump but the RSS subscribers took a bigger jump from 150/170 subscribers to 220 in just 1 or 2 months.
I conclude from this that it might be a pattern for 'faithful' users to subscribe to a blog's RSS feed rather than to visit a blog every day.

Peter