FeedBurner statistics integration with Clicky

You should be seeing a new yet familiar icon in the Clicky tab bar. We have just released a new module that lets you access your FeedBurner stats from within our service. We had thought about providing our own tracking service for feeds initially, but FeedBurner provides such an amazing service already that we just don't see any reason to. Luckily they do provide an API to access statistics very easily - something that Clicky will be providing to premium members as well in the near future.

This new module requires you to be running your site feed through FeedBurner, obviously. You'll also need to enable the Awareness API on your FeedBurner feed (screenshot), and give Clicky your FeedBurner URI (screenshot) on your site management page, which you can access from your user homepage.

You can see it in action for our own blog RSS stats, here, although we just started using FeedBurner a few days ago so our stats are a bit boring. As well, we don't have a premium FeedBurner account, so you won't be able to play with the "Views" and "Clickthroughs" sections. But here is a screenshot with some dummy data to give you the gist of it. Enjoy!

9 comments | Apr 30 2007 4:58pm

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This is a great addition to Clicky. It saves me having to go to the Feedburner web site to see how my subscription numbers are changing. Keep up the good work.

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Dean Taplin May 01 2007 12:40am

What is feedburner?

Andrew May 02 2007 2:59am

Hey, feedburner is an outsourced feed statistic service, http://www.feedburner.com.

Unfortunately, the clicky feedburner intagration doesn't work on my account. It claims that "This feed does not permit Awareness API access", although I already activated that. What's wrong?

Feedburner not work for me (???) May 02 2007 4:30am

It works now, I simply forgot to wait some half an hour. Clicky or Feedburner take some time to update their database. Very smart and handy tool.

Feedburner not work for me (???) / Jesus Presley May 02 2007 4:49am

Yes, we cache the FeedBurner result for 1/2 hour, so if it didn't work, then you enabled the API, then you would have to wait 30 minutes before it worked. I can fix that, as I see how it's confusing.

Also there seems to be a small problem with this new feature, I can't tell if it's on our end or FB's end, but it seems that maybe 1 out of 20 page loads or so (for the feedburner stats page), it stalls out and can't get any data from FB. Unfortunately the stalling means the page won't load for a good minute or so, and then the data will be empty. Since it's cached for 30 minutes, then you have no data until that time rolls around. :(

Sean (Clicky) May 02 2007 10:18am

Great service. There's one site less to access for the quick look. Besides, it's easier that way to assess how many people actually access one's site: direct visitors plus feed visitors.

I like the way Clicky is continually improving their service. Thanks!

Claudia May 04 2007 3:44am

Hello! When your AJAX API will be launched? I'd like to integrate your analitys in my apps!

Thanks,

Ved
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info@extjs.com.br

Ved May 07 2007 4:18pm

I have two requests:
1) results aggregation across multiple days
2) display domain names instead of ip addresses whenever possible

Andreag May 08 2007 5:25am

Great Idea :)
A user from China.

Awflasher May 10 2007 11:39pm

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