Habitually Good

As some of you may know, I serve my feed through FeedBurner and so, even though I don’t have a lot of readers, I still check on my Feedburner stats from time to time. Well, today was amazing. I recorded an all time high number of subscribers, a number which is around double the average number of subscribers I usually have. Well, I looked at the various feed sources that FeedReader provides and it gave a pretty good list of the various options out there. So, I thought that I would share that list here so that my readers can see what options are out there for subscribing to a feed and I will list them in decreasing order of popularity as per my feed stats.

• Google Feedfetcher - 30% of the people use either Google Reader or iGoogle to read this feed.
• Omea Reader - 19% use this. I use and recommend Omea reader myself.
• FeedDemon - About 15% of the people use this. Now this is of course a very excellent tool, except that it is paid (about $30).
• Universal Feed Parser - 15% of the users use a feed readers based on the Universal Feed Parser, an open source parser by Mark Pilgrim.
• Others - a group of them form another 15% - My Yahoo, MagpieRSS, and Bloglines
• Unknown - the rest are unidentifiable.

I also have a lot of readers using the built-in FireFox feed reader. Well, that was a list of the best feed readers based on what users use on my site.

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