At some time between 4am yes­ter­day and 4am this morn­ing, my news syn­di­ca­tion feed became the most requested file on this web­site, sur­pass­ing even the image-generation file (you know the fancy titles for news that appears on the front page, and above all news arti­cles?), which is loaded sev­eral times per sin­gle impres­sion on the front page.

So the old RSS is get­ting a bit of a work­out, evidently.

Since its intro­duc­tion last Sat­ur­day, the RSS feed has attracted 2491 hits, at an aver­age of 3.28KB/page load.  Nearly 8MB of raw XML served in one week.  Pretty funky stuff, all things con­sid­ered (heh, “all things” in this instance being the read­er­ship of ~3 people).

That said, inci­den­tal traf­fic seems to be up this month (I know we’re not there yet, I’m get­ting in early), with unique impres­sions on track to remain level with last month, but a clear rise in over­all vis­its is evi­dent.  Repeat traf­fic is good, pro­vid­ing it’s not just F5-leaning.

There’s a bit of insight into what RSS is doing around here for you…

Tags: XML