Nerve Endings Firing Away

After Feedburner began reflecting subscriptions from Google Readers, almost every site experienced a spike in traffic. So did DesiPundit. Abi had requested a feed subscriber count for DesiPundit then but I hadn’t delivered on that promise. So here it is:

This is an average weekday subscription count. It isn’t too high but high enough for the average Indian blog (then again, it isn’t your average Indian blog.) As you see, Google-based readers account for nearly 40% of the share with Bloglines, the previously thought-of popular online feed reader comes in a close second at 30%. Rest is made up by Netvibes, Firefox Live Bookmarks, and other readers. The Feedblitz number shows our readers who receive the DesiPundit feed via email. I hope you consider adding an email subscription after seeing that figure.

And while we are on feed counts, this blog also has experienced a sudden surge of subscribers, (possible) reasons for which I’ll elaborate in a later post.

Again Google is the mai-baap of blog readers.