In my personal crusade to get someone’s attention at Google, I thought I’d share the FeedBurner dashboard below. This is from the last 30 days. FeedBurner was working through March 10, and then the wheels came off. As you can see, the service has only worked 6 of the last 25 days. That’s only a .240 batting average which won’t keep you in the major leagues.
When part of your income comes from publishers and advertisers who need to know the size of your audience, stuff like this matters.
Not desperate. Just frustrated.
I don’t get what you mean. You have it “show stats for one day.” I don’t see that your image says Feedburner was only working certain times.
Andy, that’s a pull down menu to select what stats are shown below the graph that I copied to my site. It doesn’t have anything to do with the bar graph. In the graph, each bar is a different day. And, there’s about a 600-subscriber drop on the lower days from Google subscribers that FeedBurner isn’t factoring in. That’s the problem.
tony
Having shared emails with Matt Shobe, the founder of FeedBurner, about an issue I was having with FB in the past… I forwarded this post to him.
He was very helpful for my issue, as it was something on my end that I had to fix.
Feedburner works so much better for me. They only fail 2 days out of every 30 for me. I love having a 7% failure rate because 93% is OK with me … NOT!
My stats are also broken.
Very Very Unfortunate.
They are not doing their basic stuff and blogs says they are selling vinyl sticker.
How stupid is that?
Thanks. I think you mean the pie chart that comes up when you click:
“See more about your subscribers »”
I think what you are saying is that some days “Google Feedfetcher” is not listed as catching any feeds on that piechart so that on those days Bloglines is the biggest subscriber. For me, the Google Feedfetcher is about 35% of my subscribers and Bloglines 20% so I see how you would be upset. I checked through mine for the last 30 days though and it lists “Google Feedfetcher” each day.
I can tell you that I have checks next to the following at Feedburner under the Optimize tab:
* BrowserFriendly
Make subscribing simpler
* SmartCast
Podcasting and iTunes settings
* SmartFeed
Ensure maximum compatibility
* FeedFlare™
Build interactivity into each post
And under Publicize, the following is checked:
# PingShot
Notify services when you post
I wonder too if there is anything amiss at your TypePad settings:
I’ll just share mine and see if that helps.
Under Weblogs / Configure / Feeds
I have checked:
Feed Preferences
Published Feeds:
* Posts
Below that I have
FeedBurner:
*
* The feed for this weblog is connected to the “Andy Rowell” FeedBurner feed.
grace and peace, tony.
andy
Andy Rowell
Doctor of Theology Student
Duke Divinity School
Blog: http://www.andyrowell.net/
That is not good.
Tony,
Hey man … I’m w/ Andy .. if he’s interpreting this correctly … although I don’t have hear the subscriber count, I went into my FB stats over the last month, and Google Feedfetcher is accounted for every single day. Google FF is averaging around 51% of my subscribers on feedburner over 30 days.
Just so we can all help troubleshoot togther – are you saying that on those 600-subscriber drop days, Google FF is not showing up AT ALL? If so, that’s a serious issue, just not sure where it would be happening.
Can you tell what % dropoff that is overall … I have about a 8% dropoff on the weekends – ESPECIALLY on Sunday .. but, looking at my 30-day chart, that curve and subscriber drop is VERY CONSISTENT and NORMAL. If -600 subscribers is a typical 8-10% drop on “busy” or “off” days, I’d think that would be normal, but your drop seems to be random and w/o explanation – of course, if Google FF is NOT showing up on those days, you have your issue – now, we just have to find the cause!
Hope it gets resolved, man!
Fred
Although I never actually got a response from anyone at FeedBurner/Google, it appears that they were having some issue with TypePad users. Those issues seem to have been resolved in the last couple of days.
tony