Which blogs have the most feed subscribers
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.
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.
Related Posts:
http://tecnochica.com/ - this blog have more than 9000 subscribers
p.s. I also will be in the list next year
Thanks Maris, just added it now. Good luck on getting on the list yourself.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/msn/LNSC
1104+
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:
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.
I think GetRichSlowly (http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/) has around 20k subscribers.
FT
Thanks FT just added it now. I subscribe to GetRichSlowly so am surprised I hadn’t come across that.
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).
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.
Here’s a few others that are surprisingly large (all in the 100K subscriber range):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/elise/simplyrecipes
http://feeds.feedburner.com/InterestingThingOfTheDay
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DumbLittleMan
http://feeds.feedburner.com/43Folders
Engadget has 577k subscribers, we have a winner!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/weblogsinc/engadget
Thanks mad, added it now.
Al, where is Coolest Gadgets?
Great list, thanks for sharing.
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).
dzone.com has 3600+
Thanks Papa Rage, I had a look at DZone but couldn’t see a count anywhere, am I missing something?
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.
Great list to share. I would definitely like to know what are the top 10 large number of subscribers.
Thanks for including Hacked Gadgets in your list
Hacked Gadgets is one of my favourite sites and it certainly deserves to be there, so thank you Alan.
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.
Thanks John, just added it now.
Great Find and Thanks for sharing with us.
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
Thanks Thomas but I couldn’t find your feed count, is it published on the site anywhere?
No, we don’t show it, however it is public set in the feedburner settings.
Thomas
wow…. I need to start visiting a lot more blogs….
Me too.
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen has 13455 subscribers as of 4/23/07.
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…
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
You should add pronet advertising.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/pronetadvertising
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.
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.
The Simple Dollar - http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ - is well north of 6,000 subscribers. It was almost at 8,000 a few days ago.
This relatively unknown site, Everything USB, also has like 5400 subscribers.
http://www.everythingusb.com/
you missed http://copyblogger.com and http://chrisg.com
BlackRimglasses.com - 21k
although most from Flock
Thanks everybody for the suggestions. This comment is a place holder to remind me how far down the list I’ve got.
Thanks again.
Here’s another one that’s missed:
Free iTunes Downloads (http://freeitunessongs.blogspot.com/) - 2711 subscribers
Sciencebase.com has 2300 subscribers on a Tuesday. Usually lower on a Monday, sitting at 2037 right now
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/SciencebaseScienceBlog
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
Nice list. Great link bait.
Vegan Porn has 6500+, which might be good for its niche, but top 100 it ain’t…
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
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Hi Al,
Great list. Church of the Customer has just over 40K subscribers. http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/
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I contacted you about one that has something like 1800+ and it’s not even a blog lol ..absolutely crazy.
You’re missing my blog, but I don’t publicize it. I have 40,133 subs as of this am.
The Freakonomics blog has over 65k subscribers:
feed: feeds.feedburner.com/FreakonomicsBlog
blog: http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/
Challies Dot Com (www.challies.com) has 3000+ subscribers via Feedburner.
arseblog.com - 1500+
TiVoBlog.com has 2000+ subscribers on feedburner.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tivoblog
Nice list BTW.
At Xataka, a spanish blog about gadgets, we have 149000 suscriptors.
There’s also http://Go2Web2.blogspot.com/ with over 2600 subs.
We got 11k. Cars! Cars! Cars!
I get a HTTP Status 403 - FeedCount is not enabled for that feed
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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.
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.
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We have about 45K at Photojojo (www.photojojo.com)
feedburner graphic
hi http://www.2803.com had 4600 subscribers
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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.
I agree Will, if you let me know what they are I’ll add them in. Thanks.
http://www.rubyinside.com/ wobbles between 6000 and 7000. Today is 6500ish, yesterday was 7100.
Added now, thanks Peter.
Talk Crunch and John Chow should be flipped on the list…
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.
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).
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