SQL Blog Readership Numbers

I have been mining publicly available numbers out of Google reader for the last couple weeks for frequent published sql blogs. I am going to present the numbers but let me make some points.

• The fanboy Microsoft DBA is probably using Outlook 2007 as their RSS reader. I made the exchange server cry when I tried this. These numbers are only google reader stats.
• My number is about 50% of what feedburner says for my site. However, take that with a grain of salt.
• There are some travesties. However, I am posting data not opinions. I will leave the opinions up to you.
• 100-200 level blogs seem popular.

SubscriberCount	RSS Feed
1,460	http://blog.sqlauthority.com/feed/
1,407	http://sqlblog.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx
725	http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/rss.xml
521	http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/rss.xml
360	http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/rss.xml
317	http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/rss.xml
284	http://feeds.feedburner.com/SqlteamcomWeblogs
273	http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/rss.xml
221	http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sql/sqldev_en_us.xml
207	http://feeds.feedburner.com/statisticsio
175	http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlsecurity/rss.xml
144	http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/feed/
141	http://glennberrysqlperformance.spaces.live.com/feed.rss
126	http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverue/rss.xml
123	http://www.brentozar.com/feed/
88	http://feeds.feedburner.com/SqlInTheWild
61	http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/All/?tempskin=_rss2
47	http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com/feed/
33	http://sqlbatman.com/feed/
29	http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2
13	http://www.sqlpass.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Rss.aspx?TabID=75&ModuleID=494
5	http://blogs.msdn.com/search/Searchrss.aspx?q=sql&o=DateDescending

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Travesties indeed...

One thing not accounted for on this list is the fact that some blogs have multiple feeds that show up in the google reader statistics. Brent Ozar for example, has 126 subscribers at http://www.brentozar.com/feed/, and another 46 over at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BrentOzar-SqlServerDba.

Thanks for the post! Very interesting.

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:16 AM by Rob Boek

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I direct RSS to a local PST-file (3GB.) Exchange from it does not cry in any way :)

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:22 AM by Microsoft DBA

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Good article Jason,

I have two feeds one feed as you have listed 1,460 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/feed/ have 1,460 readers and another one

http://feedproxy.google.com/SQLAuthority has 835 readers.

Again, great article.

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:06 AM by Pinal Dave

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Whoa, yeah, those numbers are wack. I've got 652 on my FeedBurner feed this morning. As of yesterday (I just happened to ask the marketing guys for the numbers) SQLServerPedia has just under 300 subscribers in FeedBurner, and has a little over 200 for the podcast feeds (MP3, MP4 and WMA).

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:53 AM by Brent Ozar

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Comments from the following blog entry: http://jasoncrider.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/25/sql-server-rss-feeds/

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:42 AM

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I can tell you from looking at my own internal stats that these numbers are way, way off for SQLblog. Not only does the site have numerous feeds (one RSS and one ATOM feed per blogger in addition to the main feed), and even that main feed number is about 1/10 of what I believe our actual subscriber base to be (difficult to get an exact number, but we can estimate based on unique IPs, etc).

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:58 AM by Adam Machanic

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http://blog.sqlauthority.com/ is one of the best sources on the net. And Pinal Dave updates his blog regularly.

Nice list!

-Marlon

posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:05 PM by Marlon Ribunal

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