Which blogs have the most feed subscribers

Posted by Al on April 23rd, 2007.

I’m a bit of a stat head and enjoy trawling through log files and looking at pretty graphs. One statistic that I’m particularly interested in is the number of subscribers different sites have in different niches.

FeedBurner offer a great service for managing your sites feed and provide all sorts of interesting stats. You can also put one of their chicklets on your site to boast share with the world how many subscribers your site has.

I thought it would be both interesting and fun to create a top 100 (or so) of the sites with the highest feeds, so spent Saturday morning doing a big trawl around.

Site Subject Subscriber count
Engadget Technology
Boing Boing Technology & Humor
TechCrunch Technology
Simply Recipes Cooking
Xataka Technology
Interesting Thing of the Day Info
Mashable Technology
43 Folders Technology
TechCrunch.fr Technology
Dumb Little Man Misc
37 Signals Technology
Freakonomics Technology
John Battelle’s Search Blog Technology
Daily Kos Info
Read/Write Web Technology
Coding Horror Technology
Crunch Gear Technology
Duct Tape Marketing Business
Church of the Customer Technology
Micro Persuassion Technology
Life Hack Technology
Genbeta Technology
Coolest Gadgets :) Technology
pf blog Finance
Small Business Trends Technology
BlackRimGlasses Technology
ProBlogger Blogging
Search Engine Watch Technology
Get Rich Slowly Finance
Matt Cutts Webmaster & SEO
FeedBurner Blogging?
Loic Le Meur’s blog Technology
Double Tongued Info
WebDeux.info Technology
CopyBlogger Blogging
Britannica Blog Technology
feld Business
Computer Zen Technology
Digital Tech News Technology
flickrbabes Eye candy
Writers Write Info
Emily Chang Technology
Mobile Crunch Technology
The Apple Blog Technology
VidaExtra Technology
Fan Blogs Misc
Search Engine Roundtable Webmasters & SEO
Search Engine Journal SEO
Manolo’s Shoe Blog Misc
Search Engine Land Webmasters & SEO
bitelia Technology
The Budget Fashionista Technology
SEOmoz SEO
Quick Online Tips Webmasters
Digital Inspiration Technology
Techno Chica Technology
plasticbag.org Technology
Applesfera Technology
Gizmologia Technology
Shoe Money Technology
Pronet Advertising Technology
Ruby Inside Technology
The Simple Dollar Finance
David Seah Technology
Online Marketing Blog Technology
Everything USB Technology
snook.ca Technology
Apple Weblog Technology
Shopping Blog Shopping
Directo al paladar Technology
le Hournal du Geek Technology
Marketing Pilgrim Technology
fosfor gadgets Technology
Zen Habits Technology
Talk Crunch Technology
2803 Technology
John Chow Making Money
weblog tools collection Blogging
Hacked Gadgets Gadgets & Technology
Traders Trade Business
Trump University Business
Entrepreneur’s Journey Technology
Challies Technology
GHacks Technology
Ask Shane Ask Shane
Free iTunes Downloads Technology
Paul Stamatiou Technology
Neatorama Humor
MWG Blog Technology
Go2Web2 Technology
Xataka Movil Technology
Ask the VC Business
LiewCF Technology
hiper def Technology
ConverStations Blogging
Random Good Stuff Humor
Daily Blog Tips Blogging
Science Base Technology
Slash Gear Technology
Macapper Technology
Personal Financial Advice Finance
Net Stumbler Technology
Pick the Brain Intelligent stuff
Bloggers Blog Blogging
Say No To Crack Humor
SEO Pedia SEO
Connected Internet Blogging
Net Business Blog Technology
Matt Brett Technology
One Tip a Day Software
TechBuzz Technology

I’ve only been able to list sites that are both using Feedburner and choose to make their count public, so some of the big guns like Steve Pavlina, Lockergnome, etc. are absent from the list.

I will add new sites to the list as and when I find them, so if you know of a glaring omission with at least 2,000 subscribers please let us know via a comment, I’d like to build the list up to be a top 100 and as I’ve only covered a few niches that I know of I’m sure that I’ve missed plenty of others.

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Comment by Maris from Social networking blog
2007-04-23 10:51:56

http://tecnochica.com/ - this blog have more than 9000 subscribers

p.s. I also will be in the list next year :)

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 11:39:33

Thanks Maris, just added it now. Good luck on getting on the list yourself.

Comment by pr0xy k1ll3r Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-24 09:22:16
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Comment by Shane from Shane
2007-04-23 11:00:56

Al,

I (Ask Shane) actually don’t have over 2,000 subscribers. It was an experiment for a couple of days that I’ll be writing up a full analysis of this week.

Also, I think you could pull the ones you don’t have by just taking their FeedBurner ID and swapping it into one of the images above. For instance, swapping “shoemoney” for “Tech-Buzz” in that last image gives you this:

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 11:43:50

Cheers Shane, I’ll start doing that. I’ll also look forward to reading about your experiment. Please let me know when the results are live.

 
 
2007-04-23 11:09:18

I think GetRichSlowly (http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/) has around 20k subscribers.

FT

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 11:42:36

Thanks FT just added it now. I subscribe to GetRichSlowly so am surprised I hadn’t come across that.

 
 
Comment by Anita Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 11:51:23

Great list Al!

I’ve noticed in BlogLines that there are a bunch of feeds with a high # of subscribers that may not use FeedBurner or otherwise publish their stats. I think Dilbert has around 90,000 BlogLines subscribers alone (so it feasibly has more feed subscribers than TechCrunch).

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 13:29:26

Hi Anita, I’m trying to add more as I see them and you’re right it is a shame that not all sites publish the stats.

Comment by Anita Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 14:29:23
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Comment by mad4 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 12:09:56

Engadget has 577k subscribers, we have a winner!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/weblogsinc/engadget

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 13:28:19

Thanks mad, added it now.

 
 
Comment by Daniel
2007-04-23 13:25:04

Al, where is Coolest Gadgets?

Great list, thanks for sharing.

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 13:27:38

CGs feed count had a bit of a blip today and dropped by about 20,000. It has done it before and normally sorts itself out in a day or so, so I’ll hopefully add it tomorrow (just saves moving it up and down).

 
 
Comment by Papa Rage
2007-04-23 14:55:25

dzone.com has 3600+

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 15:13:24

Thanks Papa Rage, I had a look at DZone but couldn’t see a count anywhere, am I missing something?

Comment by Papa Rage
2007-04-23 18:25:47

Oh. 3 weeks ago dzone.com changed to a new layout. the new layout does not not show the chicklet, but the layout doesn’t work for ie6 so I guess the only way to see the feedburner stats is to use ie6.

This probably explains why the numbers are down from almost 8000 in march to 3600 today.

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Comment by Keith from Latest News Linking Points
2007-04-23 15:22:10

Great list to share. I would definitely like to know what are the top 10 large number of subscribers.

 
Comment by Alan
2007-04-23 15:34:00

Thanks for including Hacked Gadgets in your list :)

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 15:46:47

Hacked Gadgets is one of my favourite sites and it certainly deserves to be there, so thank you Alan.

 
 
Comment by John Wesley
2007-04-23 15:37:36

Cool list. It’s always interesting to see how many subscribers a given site has. One notable omission is www.zenhabits.net, it has 4,400 or so subscribers.

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 15:45:46

Thanks John, just added it now.

 
 
Comment by Thomson from Make Money Online Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 16:42:11

Great Find and Thanks for sharing with us.

 
Comment by Thomas Herold
2007-04-23 17:16:46

Great list - thought I would find our blog with currently 5440 subscribers. Our blog count is public on Feedburner.

Cheers

Thomas Herold
CEO Dream Manifesto
http://www.dreammanifesto.com

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 17:29:45

Thanks Thomas but I couldn’t find your feed count, is it published on the site anywhere?

Comment by Thomas Herold
2007-04-24 04:04:22

No, we don’t show it, however it is public set in the feedburner settings.

Thomas

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2007-04-23 17:17:15

wow…. I need to start visiting a lot more blogs….

Comment by Jay Peterson
2007-05-16 08:47:01

Me too.

 
 
Comment by Cam Soper Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 17:22:49

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen has 13455 subscribers as of 4/23/07.

Comment by Cam Soper Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 18:07:07

Sorry for the double-post (I mention Scott again a few comments down). I think I got nailed by some delay due to response caching… :)

 
 
Comment by Ed Roberts
2007-04-23 17:23:04

Yeah, I have a REALLY hard time believing that the bottom of the top 100 have barely 1000 subs. FB has an API designed JUST for this. Here is one use for podcasters. Note all have at least 1800 subs. http://www.podfeed.net/feedburner_rankings.asp

 
Comment by Neil Patel
2007-04-23 17:25:39

You should add pronet advertising.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/pronetadvertising

 
Comment by Cam Soper Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 17:26:32

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen (http://www.computerzen.com) has on the order of 13K subscribers.

Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/) has around 50K.

 
Comment by Josh R. Holloway
2007-04-23 17:26:46

I write for MacApper (http://www.macapper.com), and we have a good 2300 subscribers, which we anticipate to grow drastically this week with some great stuff we have going on.

 
Comment by Trent
2007-04-23 17:28:12

The Simple Dollar - http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ - is well north of 6,000 subscribers. It was almost at 8,000 a few days ago.

 
Comment by Badger Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 17:29:19

This relatively unknown site, Everything USB, also has like 5400 subscribers.
http://www.everythingusb.com/

 
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Comment by ethan
2007-04-23 17:33:39

BlackRimglasses.com - 21k
although most from Flock :)

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 18:34:29

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. This comment is a place holder to remind me how far down the list I’ve got.

Thanks again.

 
 
Comment by k3v
2007-04-23 17:35:03

Here’s another one that’s missed:
Free iTunes Downloads (http://freeitunessongs.blogspot.com/) - 2711 subscribers

 
Comment by David Bradley Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 17:35:46

Sciencebase.com has 2300 subscribers on a Tuesday. Usually lower on a Monday, sitting at 2037 right now

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/SciencebaseScienceBlog

Comment by David Bradley from Outranking Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-21 16:26:32

Sciencebase has gradually climbed over the past few months and is hovering around the 2800 subscriber mark now. I’d like to break 3000 by the end of the year, but not sure where to turn to make that happen. The site was a finalist in the 2007 Weblog Awards, which gained it 100 or so, but I’m not paying to enter the Webbys…

db

 
 
Comment by TeamTutorials
2007-04-23 17:43:05

Nice list. Great link bait.

 
Comment by Jason
2007-04-23 17:43:25

Vegan Porn has 6500+, which might be good for its niche, but top 100 it ain’t…

 
Comment by josef
2007-04-23 17:54:26

Great list and thanks for pointing out some of these blogs. I will be reviewing a few of them in more detail. The Trump University Blog has over 3400 readers and is powered by Feedburner.
http://www.trumpuniversity.com/blog/index.cfm

Thanks again.
Josef

 
2007-04-23 17:56:35

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Comment by Jackie Huba
2007-04-23 18:14:22

Hi Al,
Great list. Church of the Customer has just over 40K subscribers. http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/

 
2007-04-23 18:17:47

[…] interesting article was written over at Self Made Minds analyzing which feeds have the most subscribers over at […]

 
Comment by joost invites Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 18:18:00

I contacted you about one that has something like 1800+ and it’s not even a blog lol ..absolutely crazy.

 
Comment by Steve Rubel
2007-04-23 18:19:27

You’re missing my blog, but I don’t publicize it. I have 40,133 subs as of this am.

 
Comment by CU
2007-04-23 18:19:42

The Freakonomics blog has over 65k subscribers:

feed: feeds.feedburner.com/FreakonomicsBlog
blog: http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/

 
Comment by Jan Gilders Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 18:25:50

Challies Dot Com (www.challies.com) has 3000+ subscribers via Feedburner.

 
Comment by arseblog
2007-04-23 18:49:44

arseblog.com - 1500+

 
Comment by TiVoBlog
2007-04-23 18:50:05

TiVoBlog.com has 2000+ subscribers on feedburner.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/tivoblog

Nice list BTW.

 
Comment by Sacha Fuentes
2007-04-23 19:28:10

At Xataka, a spanish blog about gadgets, we have 149000 suscriptors.

 
Comment by Jacob Share
2007-04-23 19:28:36

There’s also http://Go2Web2.blogspot.com/ with over 2600 subs.

 
Comment by bob
2007-04-23 19:30:37

We got 11k. Cars! Cars! Cars!

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 19:42:41

I get a HTTP Status 403 - FeedCount is not enabled for that feed

 
 
2007-04-23 19:31:07

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Comment by EB Gal
2007-04-23 19:39:16

The Britannica Blog (http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/) has ~15,000 subscribers to its main feed. I’m pretty sure your survey is missings lots of sites with higher counts. I’d be surprised with if anyone with fewer than 10,000 subscribers is in the top 100.

 
Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 19:54:09

I think I’ve added all the suggested blogs up to this comment. I’m now only adding ones with a count above 2,000 otherwise this will become my new full-time job.

Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions everybody.

 
2007-04-23 20:20:49

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Comment by Amit Gupta
2007-04-23 20:26:20

We have about 45K at Photojojo (www.photojojo.com)

feedburner graphic

 
Comment by henri
2007-04-23 20:26:23

hi http://www.2803.com had 4600 subscribers ;)

 
2007-04-23 20:30:08

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Comment by WIll
2007-04-23 20:33:57

I know several blogs and their FB stats are between 4 and 8k and they arnt listed here…I think these stats have some big holes that need to be filled.

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 20:35:29

I agree Will, if you let me know what they are I’ll add them in. Thanks.

 
 
Comment by Peter Cooper
2007-04-23 20:34:23

http://www.rubyinside.com/ wobbles between 6000 and 7000. Today is 6500ish, yesterday was 7100.

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 20:37:38

Added now, thanks Peter.

 
 
Comment by Matt
2007-04-23 20:35:38

Talk Crunch and John Chow should be flipped on the list…

 
Comment by David
2007-04-23 20:55:05

I’m surprised to discover that it’s enough to put me in any “top whatever” lists, but according to Feedburner, www.ironicsans.com has 2,015 subscribers.

Comment by Al from SMM Subscribed to comments via email
2007-04-23 21:19:32

I can’t see a public feedburner count that I can add in David, if you check in the Feedburner CP you should be able to publish it (or words something like that).

 
 
Comment by henri
2007-04-23 21:26:04

Al do you only integrate UK and US blogs or do you aim to build an international ranking? If yes maybe you could integrate some french blogs like mine ;)