Re: Tracking your RSS subscribers

> I'm generating my rss feed (its only a v0.91 feed though)
> in php, and in the script I've added some functionality to
> log the IP address of unique visitors(who have not already
> viewed the feed that day). It also logs the date. It would
> be simply enough to just log every visitor of the feed and
> the full date and time of each visit.

Also bear in mind that most web servers already log this in their regular
site stats.  You can parse it out after the fact (using a cron job perhaps)
and glean much of the same info.  With apache it's possible to use a
CustomLog to pull out uses of specific URLs to log them independently.  We
use this on syndic8 to dump logs of all xml-related uses of data to it's own
log file, separate from html page use.  This way the eventual web usage
stats we generate can focus on each particular usage realm without having to
deal with them in mixed log files.

-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com



 
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