Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

Feedburner, which hosts the weblog feed (RSS) for this site, recently added a chart to the stats page. The chart represents the overall percentage of each newsreader that is used to access Leave it Behind. Here's the breakdown:

19% Bloglines

16% Newsgator

16% Newsgator Online

14% SharpReader

11% NetNewsWire

07% RSS Bandit

17% Other

I'm not terribly surprised about Bloglines, but Newsgator's popularity, which could easily count as 32%, did catch me off guard. I also would have expected NetNewsWire to finish ahead of SharpReader. I'll be interested to see how these fluctuate over time.

One idea that has always interested me is whether Six Apart will build a newsreader into TypePad. I doubt it would be difficult to add a tab to the TypePad interface and allow the user to read and post from a single site. Of course, posting to your TypePad blog from TypeNews would only require a single click and no configuration if posting to your default weblog. I think a very large percentage of TypePad users would find that combination hard to resist.

Update: Here's the Feedburner post on the new chart with a screen shot. The speed increase they mention is real and a huge plus. I'm looking forward to the coming innovations.

Comments

[Andrew]

Interesting - I too have a high percentage with newsgator. The last 24 hours have this as 18.5%. Bloglines is 14.8, My Yahoo 11.1% and Feed-Directory 3.7%. I suppose it depends on your target market; but I also have an 'add to yahoo' button on the site that might make a difference...

[Erik Lane]

I use Newsgator Online...it's very good and easy to use. It has this "clippings" feature that lets you build your own newspaper - kind of. As I scan through all the unread items I mark intresting posts as a "clipping" and the rest as read. When I'm done I go to my clippings category and there are all the ones I'm really interested in reading in one place.

I started using it online to see if I would like their Add-In for Outlook. I've decided I like not having to open Outlook just get my RSS feeds plus online is free.