Re: Google Reader vs. Bloglines Market Share
Bob Lee: Apparently I'm not alone in my switch to Google Reader. Now that it started reporting subscriber counts, I see 34% of my subscribers use Google Reader while only 25% use Bloglines. Good news travels fast.
I took a look at my log files and found out that Bloglines and Google Reader are not the only service that reports subscriber counts. Here's a breakdown:
| RSS | Atom | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feadfetcher-Google | 64 | 16 | 80 |
| Bloglines/3.1 | 58 | 15 | 73 |
| NewsGatorOnline/2.0 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| Zhuaxia.com | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Rojo | 5 | 5 | |
| Newshutch/1.0 | 3 | 3 | |
| AlestiFeedBot/0.7 | 2 | 2 | |
| NewsAlloy/1.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| kb.Rmail | 1 | 1 |
So the number of people who use Google Reader to read my blog has indeed surpassed the the number of people who use Bloglines.
Considering that my Bloglines subscriber count hasn't increased that much in the last couple of years, it indeed looks like Google Reader is rolling over everybody else on its way to becoming the number one RSS aggregator.
I'm somewhat surprised by the relative popularity of RSS against Atom. This simply doesn't jive with all the talkings about Atom on the various high volume blogs.