RSS Usage Survey Results
To the respondents of our survey: Thank you!
We apologize for being late in posting the results (we said we would have them by October 20). We are making the raw results available to the research community while we work on deeper analysis, which will be made public as well.
The results are also mirrored permanently in case this page ever changes. We have also posted a link to this page on our blog so anybody can post comments discussing the results.
Raw Results
Those interested in the full, unprocessed results from the survey can download any of the following tab-delimited text files:
Note: These results do not protect against duplicates in web submissions. Survey data taken from 2006-09-20 08:34:06 PST to 2006-10-12 10:54:27 PST. OPML files are not available for download to guard against potential privacy issues.
Basic Survey Results
Total responses: 1354
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Which RSS reader do you use primarily?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Bloglines |
242 |
17.9% |
| Zhuaxia |
187 |
13.8% |
| Google Reader |
148 |
10.9% |
| GreatNews |
72 |
5.3% |
| FeedDemon |
70 |
5.2% |
| NetNewsWire |
63 |
4.7% |
| IE7 |
59 |
4.4% |
| Sage |
43 |
3.2% |
| SharpReader |
30 |
2.2% |
| Firefox Live Bookmarks |
28 |
2.1% |
| RSS Bandit |
27 |
2.0% |
| Newsgator Online |
21 |
1.6% |
| Opera RSS Reader |
20 |
1.5% |
| Outlook 12 |
19 |
1.4% |
| Potu |
18 |
1.3% |
| Thunderbird |
18 |
1.3% |
| Gougou |
13 |
1.0% |
| Live.com |
13 |
1.0% |
| Sina |
13 |
1.0% |
| NewsFire |
11 |
0.8% |
| RSSReader |
9 |
0.7% |
| FoxMail |
8 |
0.6% |
| OnFolio |
7 |
0.5% |
| My Yahoo! |
5 |
0.4% |
| Newsgator Desktop |
4 |
0.3% |
| Pluck |
4 |
0.3% |
| Livejournal |
1 |
0.1% |
| Other desktop software |
102 |
7.5% |
| Other web-based reader |
78 |
5.8% |
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How many feeds are you subscribed to in your primary RSS reader?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Under 10 |
95 |
7.0% |
| 10-25 |
236 |
17.4% |
| 26-50 |
285 |
21.0% |
| 51-100 |
314 |
23.2% |
| 101+ |
424 |
31.3% |
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On average, how frequently do you open your RSS reader (e.g. to read unread articles, to find an old article)?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Once a week (or less) |
42 |
3.1% |
| 2-6 times per week |
107 |
7.9% |
| Once per day |
210 |
15.5% |
| Twice per day |
236 |
17.4% |
| 3 times per day |
202 |
14.9% |
| 4 times per day |
66 |
4.9% |
| 5 or more times per day |
491 |
36.3% |
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On average, how long do you spend in your RSS reader (per session)?
| Response |
# |
% |
| 1-5 minutes |
81 |
6.0% |
| 5-10 minutes |
160 |
11.8% |
| 10-15 minutes |
236 |
17.4% |
| 15-30 minutes |
329 |
24.3% |
| 30-60 minutes |
276 |
20.4% |
| Over an hour |
272 |
20.1% |
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What time of day do you usually use your RSS reader (check all that apply)?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Early morning |
638 |
47.1% |
| Morning to noon |
484 |
35.7% |
| Lunch hour / mid-day |
550 |
40.6% |
| Early afternoon |
476 |
35.2% |
| Late afternoon |
488 |
36.0% |
| Evening |
818 |
60.4% |
| Late night |
457 |
33.8% |
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Do you set your reader to notify you when a new article is downloaded (via an alert) or when unread articles exist (via an indicator)?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Yes, new article (alert) & unread (indicator) |
266 |
19.6% |
| Yes, new article (alert) only |
112 |
8.3% |
| Yes, unread (indicator) only |
496 |
36.6% |
| No, neither |
480 |
35.5% |
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Do you share or save articles (or links to articles) that you found via your RSS reader? If so, how?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Browser bookmarks / favorites |
373 |
27.5% |
| Online service (del.icio.us, digg, etc.) |
658 |
48.6% |
| Email to friends or self |
311 |
23.0% |
| Print article |
55 |
4.1% |
| Save article to file |
206 |
15.2% |
| Post to your blog |
321 |
23.7% |
| I don't share or save articles from my reader |
248 |
18.3% |
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Do you have a blog?
| Response |
# |
% |
| Yes, regularly updated |
602 |
44.5% |
| Yes, rarely updated |
494 |
36.5% |
| No |
258 |
19.1% |
OPML file analysis (high-level)
- Total received: 320
- Total number of unique feeds: 40,616
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Number of feeds subscribed
- Mean: 126.925
- Maximum: 1823
- Minimum: 3
- Median: 86
- Std-dev: 172.7276
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Subscribers per feed
- Mean: 1.6362
- Maximum: 104
- Minimum: 1
- Median: 1
- Std-dev: 2.7232
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Most subscribed feeds (top 18)
About the project
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Document History
Last updated: Dec 4, 2006.
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