How to access your Feedburner stats in XHTML or XML

Eric came up with two new templates for Feedburner users to output their statistics in XHTML and XML. 

1. The XHTML template is similar to the format Jon used in his Bloglines analysis. Here's the URL to get to it:

http://feedburner.com/fb/a/stats?id=12345&dateRangeName=
all&format=table

Note: replace the "12345" above with your Feedburner ID 

2. The other template provides pure XML and you can get to it using this URL:

http://feedburner.com/fb/a/stats?id=12345&dateRangeName=
all&format=xml

You need to log in to your account to use these URLs - and don't forget to replace the "12345" bit with your own Feedburner ID. You can specify the date range too.

This is basically an alternative interface to your Feedburner statistics, for those of you who have an account there. It's a way to output your Feedburner statistics as well-formed XML, making it ripe for analysis! Here are my Feedburner stats to show you what it outputs (I'll analyze my own stats in a future post): R/WW xhtml and R/WW xml.

Call for Data

For the next part of this collaborative project, I'd like to ask Feedburner account holders to publish their data on the Web in one of the above formats. The idea being that those analyst pundits amongst us can combine the contributed data to get a better view of RSS subscription growth in the blogosphere. 

To do this, post your data in either the XHTML or XML format to your blog - or elsewhere on the Web. Make sure you tag your post so people can find it - e.g. link to the Technorati tag feedgrowth, or tag it in del.icio.us as feedgrowth, or ping The Topic Exchange's new feedgrowth page.

Anyone can then collate all this data and do their own analysis on it. So not only are we collaboratively sharing our Feedburner data, we'll hopefully collaboratively analyze it too. I'm kind of hoping some people create cool visualizations with the data, much like folks did with Tom Coates' MT data last year. I will certainly link to you if you do, but more importantly perhaps Jon Udell will too!

btw if you do want to participate, but don't want your data to be public - you could strip out the identity details from your XHTML/XML data and email the file(s) to me at readwriteweb AT gmail DOT com. We're interested in the aggregate trends and how they compare to Bloglines data.

Finally, it should be noted that Feedburner circulation data is not quite the same as Bloglines subscription data. Circulation is "an approximate measure of the number of individuals for whom your feed has been requested in the last 24 hours" and it can fluctuate a bit (particularly in the weekends, when circulation routinely drops). However there are potentially a lot of useful trends and insights about RSS subscription growth to be gained via this project - so I encourage you to contribute your data! :-)