Google Reader subscribers that is. This week, the online world has been buzzing about a new feature that Google quietly rolled out for its Google Reader tool.
The gist of it is that Google Reader is now displaying how many subscribers (Google Reader subscribers, that is) a particular blog or website has. We went ahead and ran some searches of a few of our favorite wine-related blogs and websites using the new tool to see how everyone stacked up. The process is not as straightforward as one may think, so the list below should by no means be considered totally accurate nor is it exhaustive.
Without further ado, here’s what we found:
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Vinography: 1,201 subscribers
SF Gate: Wine: 904 subscribers
Wine Library TV: 810 subscribers
About.com Wine: 803 subscribers
The Pour (New York Times Wine Blog): 620 subscribers
Dr Vino’s Wine Blog: 442 subscribers
Wine Spectator Online Headlines: 383 subscribers
Decanter News: 247 subscribers
Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: 130 subscribers
Cheers (USA Today wine blog): 124 subscribers
Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto: 97 subscribers
Winecast: 94 subscribers
Lenndevours: 75 subscribers
Good Wine Under $20: 64 subscribers
Pinotblogger: the Capozzi Winery blog: 43 subscribers
Stormhoek: 38 subscribers
Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s Unreserved: 35 subscribers
Napa Valley Register: 30 subscribers
The Corkdork: 26 subscribers
Vivi’s Wine Journal: 22 subscribers
It’s a wine blog. It’s a hiking blog. It’s Winehiker Witiculture!: 21 subscribers
Catavino: Spanish Wine, Portuguese Wine and more!: 15 subscribers
The Cork Board: 14 subscribers (woo hoo–thanks to all 14 of you! :))
AlaWine: 14 subscribers
Grape Scott: 12 subscribers
Golly’s Wine Drops: 10 subscribers
Write for Wine: 7 subscribers
Wine Consultant: 5 subscribers
Contra Costa Times Cork Heads: 4 subscribers
365Corks: 4 subscribers
Napa Valley Wine Radio: 4 subscribers
Now of course, these numbers cannot be taken as gospel–one thing that’s become clear is measurement and tracking of online traffic, subscriptions, page views, etc. is far from a simple proposition. What’s more, there are literally hundreds of other feed readers out there aside from Google Reader, so the numbers above simply represent one small piece of the overall pie.
Aside from a less-than-accurate ranking of the most subscribed-to online wine destinations, it’s interesting to see that many of the more popular wine blogs have more subscribers than the ‘traditional media’ websites covering the same topic. Perhaps this lends further credence to some of the findings from the Fermentation survey this past summer…
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Joel 10.18.07 at 9:43 am
Hey nice find! its a fraction (about 10% for Vivi’s) of what my Feedburner tells me but I’m sure it at least gives an accurate relative measure.
thanks!
mike duffy 10.18.07 at 10:56 am
The same stats are available for RSS subscribers who use Bloglines.com (for example, Fermentation has 24 Bloglines subscribers in addition to those 130 using Google Reader).
TrevR 10.18.07 at 11:23 am
Cheers Joel, same here. In fact, it may be slightly less than 10% for us, but you’re right, relatively speaking, it is likely a decent barometer–that’s why we published it.
Alder 10.22.07 at 10:31 am
Rule the world? Makes me sound like some sort of evil genius…
These stats are something that, as noted above, bloglines has published for a long time. According to Bloglines I have 211 subscribers there.