The folks over at FeedBurner released a nice overview of how they see the web-based RSS/Feed reading market. I.e., which web-based clients are reading the most feeds/articles. Great article.
It pretty much confirms what I expected. I previously wrote about my switch to using Google Reader. Apparently, many others have as well.
Burning Questions • FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market
Notes yet again:
- Given the way Google Reader renders HTML (see here for an explanation on our Publisher Tips blog), the 59% figure is actually conservative. Since Bloglines and other clients render all HTML on a page at one time, rendered item views are likely greater than the actual number of stories “read” by their users.
- The top 4 aggregators as measured by views - Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes - account for 98% of all item views recorded.
There are still many features that I would like to see added to Google Reader. Customized search through my feeds is a big one. As well as “smart tags” which would do such a search and dynamically organize it under a tag. Maybe some day. For now, Google Reader works pretty well. And, I’m not alone in that belief.
