That’s the question that’s being asked over on Daily Blog Tips. For myself, I’ve displayed my feed count in the past, but haven’t since the changeover to the new theme. Sometimes it felt like the feedcount was a form of scoreboard, and a large drop in the number of subscribers would make me question what I posted to make people leave. Not that I would change anything, I just wondered what I’d said.

I wasn’t aware at the time that it’s not the number subscribed that Feedburner counts, but rather the number of polls that it’s counted. For example, if a feed has 10,000 subscribers, but only 1,000 of them check feeds on the weekend, your weekend stats are going to look like crap. But come Monday morning, everyone’s going to love you again.