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   john
   Member

   Prit,

   Is there a way to count/log when visitors view blog content through their RSS reader ?
   I mean subscribed users, not when they click the sidebar link.

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   klhrevolution
   Member

   Yes, there is a way. If your webhost does not have awstats you can install it: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   john
   Member

   Hi Ken,

   I can access my host stats, but I was looking to do something much more simple and friendly within Pritlog itself.

   By the way after writing my original post I realized that Pritlog generates the rss xml content on the fly using one of its functions, and that the same url ending with "/RSS" is used both when you subscribe to the feed, and also by rss readers to "autodiscover" the usual xml file.

   This are great news ! as this approach makes it fairly easy to count/log rss activity as opposed to sites that write a separate xml file.

   Normally you wouldn't be able to differentiate between people just subscribing from subscribers accessing the feed unless you "interpret the log"

   But since my log code logs date, username, ip, and referrer (page he comes from) to a flatfile, users with same name or ip and more than 1 entry would mean subscribers.
   I think this logic could be easily added to the code doing the log.

   I'll wait to get Prit's "live validation" :) on this to see if I'm correct.

   Stats are important to me, so I'm looking to integrate traffic info to reflect the real number of visitors no matter if they come through a browser or an rss reader.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Prit
   Pritlogger

   Hi John...

   If the users can see only limited text from your posts on their RSS feeds, then they would have to click on the links to read the complete post. In this case, your log program should log this user.

   On the other hand, if you are not using "*readmore*" and users read the full post using their own RSS feed reader, I am not sure if it would show as a separate entry on your log. Even if it does, I suspect, if you would be able to measure it to the level of posts. You might be able to get the visitor count for folks reading your rss feed as a whole because Pritlog uses the createRSS function to generate RSS on the fly.

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   john
   Member

   Prit, this was the same understanding I had.
   I didn't expect to measure to the post level, but to count/log users accessing the blog from a feed reader in the same way I do for browsers.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   klhrevolution
   Member

   Another way to monitor the RSS is by using feedburner.com or other similar services.

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   You are right Ken. That is a good option.

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   john
   Member

   Prit, I just used my feed reader to check some new entries, and I noted that posts splitted by *readmore* don't show any clue to indicate that a full version is available.

   My suggestion: include the readmore link as part of the feed

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   I tried some other RSS feeds from popular sites and they don't indicate this either. But, we can always add this. Maybe in the next release. I will make a note.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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