iGoogle recently upgraded their Add Stuff engine so that you can see more info about gadgets and feeds before you add them to your iGoogle page. Included in that information is the amount of subscribers to the current gadget, which is great for me because I have a big blob of Google subscribers and I would like more information about them.
As of today on FiD, I have 169,313 subscribers through Google services. On my two iGoogle feeds, I have 36,847 and 51,185 subscribers respectively (or a total of 88,662). That means that 80,651 of my Google subscribers (or 47.6%) are through Google Reader! I’m actually quite surprised at this number because I figured that I just accumulated readers because ignorant people have been searching for iTunes on iGoogle or that FiD had been bundled on some iGoogle partner pages.
Now I need to do some more sleuthing in Google Reader to determine whether people are just getting the feed as default or if they’re actively adding the feed in.
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