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We started using FeedBurner just a couple of months ago. This has allowed us to get some reasonable statistics on the number of people who have subscribed to the Royal Pingdom RSS feed.
We are happy to say that the numbers have been growing, slowly but steadily. Lately, our blog has started to go above 1,000 feed subscribers (readers). The record so far was on April 29, when we had 1027 feed readers.
Admittedly, the numbers from FeedBurner are approximations, but the trend is clear: more and more people are subscribing to our blog feed, which is great. 
The number of feed readers have increased about 60% on average since mid-February.
Thanks for reading this blog. We promise that will do our best to keep publishing interesting content for you.
(And if you’re reading this from our RSS feed, thanks for subscribing! 
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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.
As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.
It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.
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PChere
May 8th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Congrats on your milestone. I am really happy to subscribe your feed.
daragh
May 8th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Wow, for a site with such high quality, well designed and regular content I’d have thought your numbers would be significantly higher.
Would you care to publish how many uniques you are seeing and how much of you traffic is driven by the feed?
Royal Pingdom
May 9th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Thanks for the kind words!
Daragh, according to Google Analytics this blog had 154k unique visitors in the last 30 days, so obviously the traffic from the feed only accounts for a small part of our total traffic.
That said, we probably have also done a pretty poor job at encouraging people to subscribe to the RSS feed, which is something we should amend in the future.
Gools
May 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Well, add one more RSS reader!
Royal Pingdom
May 13th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Thanks! Every single reader is welcome and utterly appreciated.