tallying subscribers

In further exploration of why I keep this weblog going, I decided to take a stab at tallying subscribers.

The only way I see to do this is to count up requests for index.(xml|rdf) and then sort out unique IP addresses. Even this is likely to be inaccurate (most likely giving a higher number than actual), since IP addresses from dialup users or others on dynamically-assigned network addresses will appear more than once.

gzcat httpd-access.log.01-20-2004.gz | egrep 'index.(xml|rdf)' | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -un | wc -l

42(yes, I’m sure there are more elegant ways to do this)

So that suggests about 40 people had my feed in their aggregator yesterday.

For the month of January so far, the count is 140. for the same time period, I also count 48(!) different aggregators/clients.

The bulk of my traffic would seem to come as a result of Google and other search engines.

348NorthNews
ASPseek
BlogStreetBot
Blogdigger
Bloglines
BravoBrian
EARTHCOM.info
Enterprise_Search
FeedDemon
FeedValidator
Feedster
Googlebot
Green
Jakarta
Java
KooQoo:
LWP::Simple
Liferea
Localfeeds:
MagpieRSS
Microsoft
Mozilla
Mozilla(IE
NetNewsWire
NewsGator
PubSub.com
Python-urllib
QuepasaCreep
RPT-HTTPClient
Radio
RssBandit
SharpReader
Syndic8
TestApp
The
TranSGeniKBot
UltraLiberalFeedParser
Urchin
Wget
YahooFeedSeeker
alebot
blink
fastbuzz.com
http:
intraVnews
larbin_2.6.3
msnbot