I was logging into my FeedBurner account this morning to check out my stats, and this is what I saw:
Now, I would hope, that my 2 main feed URL's (the first redirects to the second), would NOT be an "uncommon" use of my feeds.... Now Graywolf already found out the hard way that they can't handle redirects, but this is even more "stupid".
Ow and another thing, how come FeedBurner can always show yesterday's stats in the FeedCount image, and that it takes a LOT longer to update in the API data?
Don't get me wrong, I love FeedBurner, but these are things they could quite easily fix...
Joost - Uncommon uses is simply an indication that we're seeing feed activity (item views or clickthroughs) from a domain that we don't see on other feeds we host. It's intended to reflect "uncommon" use of your feed content *relative to the broader feed network* we host. Once you've determined that the activity is normal, just click the box next to the entry and we'll stop reporting it as uncommon.
Re: "not handling redirects" - I'm not sure I understand. The post you pointed to was about Google Reader's reporting of # of subscribers to a particular feed alias. We see all requests for the feed (whether to the original feed URL or the feedburner.com address) and report on them as one feed, not multiple feeds. What aren't we handling?
--Rick
Google
Hi Rick, thx for dropping by!
Re: the uncommon use: it still amazes me... I've made the second one my primary feed in your own interface... That's not uncommon is it?
Re the "not handling redirects" these requests should be getting a redirect before being served, so they're all served from the primary feed URL, that way the counts would be alright too, right? :)
Joost - "uncommon" is in the context of all 1m feeds we host, not uncommon for just yours. The point of the service is to compare requests/clicks on your feed against all of the hundreds of millions of feed requests and clicks we see each day. And any that happen on your feed that don't appear in other feeds are, by definition, uncommon. (That said, we could certainly tweak the algorithm to ignore MyBrand domains... that would make sense.)
The redirects - I still think this is off-base. Google Reader sees the two feeds as different, but the requests for the two variations of the feed both go to FeedBurner and FeedBurner *is* consolidating the numbers into one reported number. Google Reader doesn't combine them because Google Reader stores the feed URLs separately - but they are reported as one combined number for the publisher on the FeedBurner side.
Rick, I'd just love to have 1 canonical feed URL :)