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Small Downtime, Don’t Hate Me

Posted on May 24th in Apple, My Sites — One Comment so far. Got something to say?

Little bit of a downtime recently, pretty much during “peak” hours for me. It appears to be all gone, so don’t worry!

The thing with even the slightest downtime, is that the subscriber rate (according to FeedBurner anyways) just plummets. I know it’s really hard to be able to tell pings and hits apart from subscriptions, but sometimes you have to question their algorithm. I was getting around 450 hits on my feed and 50 subscribers a week or so ago, but the hits just starting climbing like crazy. The hits got up to 787 in one day turning in to only 49 subscribers. Way more hits than usual, almost double in fact but the subscription was a little below average. Things have evened out now, with the hits and scribs at 420/52 for yesterday, but now I’m noticing the numbers are becoming dependent on my posting everyday.

On the other hand, if I miss two days it’ll come back up, sometimes higher than usual. The last week or so has been a little odd for RSS readers, actually. One day this week I was featured on a few CSS galleries (late submitting :P) and I was up arround 60. Then for some reason the next days were 49/55/58/50 or so, and then today (I think).

So I wasn’t planning on writing anything today, as I’m downloading and transferring a ton of stuff to my iMac, but now that I had downtime I have t, so stuff doesn’t plummet Starts me thinking, is it me, you (reader) or the service? If only there was an answer. I’d Google it, but now Google owns FeedBurner. Ow, my head.