In January 2006, almost 75% of my repeat visitors read this blog via some sort of syndicated feed.
When I think of my readership I think of people who have me in their bookmarks or come to me out of habit. They come to the “main” or “index” page of the blog to check out the latest articles.
Mind you, in January I had 179,228 visitors total so only 14% (25,179) of my traffic comes from readership, the rest comes from search engines or direct links (Wonkette, Guardian UK, I-Am-Bored, or Slate, for example).
Yes, 86% of all of my traffic, 154,049, is based on the blogosphere.
I checked my logs for January and of the 25,179 visitors who came to a “main” or “index page” of my blog, Chris Abraham – Because the Medium is the Message, only 6,466 visitors came in via a web browser, the rest read my blog via some sort of syndicated feed.
18,713 visitors came in via some flavor of feed. 8,240 by RSS 1.0, 3,830 by RSS 2.0, and 6,643 by ATOM. Last year, 2005, the numbers were startling: 21,913 via web browser, 25,407 via RSS 1.0, 9,495 via RSS 2.0, and 19,637 via ATOM. So far this month, it breaks into 4,471 via web browser, 3,261 via RSS 1.0, 2,263 via RSS 2.0, and 3,483 via ATOM.
