RSS Usage Survey Results

Back in September, Microsoft conducted a survey, asking people how they use their RSS readers.

The results are here, and I’ve taken the liberty of translating one of the tables into a graph, just to give you an idea of how fragmented the RSS reader space is:

Igvita has made graphs of most of the other data, including “How many feeds are you subscribed to in your primary RSS reader?”, “On average, how frequently do you open your RSS reader (e.g. to read unread articles, to find an old article)?” and “What time of day do you usually use your RSS reader (check all that apply)?”.

Besides asking questions, they asked participants to submit their OPML reading lists to get data on which feeds were popular. Of the 1,354 respondents, 320 OPML files comprising 40,616 subscribed feeds were received. The top 18:

Blog Subscribers Playin with IT http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlayinWithIt 106 Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml 103 TechCrunch http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch 99 Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml 83 Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/feed/ 82 Google China Blog http://googlechinablog.com/atom.xml 75 Engadget http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml 73 Chinese Blogbeta http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogbeta/chn 65 A List Apart http://www.alistapart.com/rss.xml 57 Engadget China http://cn.engadget.com/rss.xml 56 Slashdot http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot 55 Incomplete http://feeds.feedburner.com/Incomplete 53 Particle Tree http://particletree.com/rss/ 52 LaoBai’s Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/laobaisBlog 51 Solidot http://feeds.feedburner.com/solidot 51 Wang Xiao Feng’s blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/wangxiaofeng 50 Mezzoblue http://www.mezzoblue.com/rss/index.xml 49 Jeffrey Zeldman Presents http://www.zeldman.com/feed/zeldman.xml 49 Bloglines News http://www.bloglines.com/rss/about/news 47 Mini-Microsoft http://minimsft.blogspot.com/atom.xml 46 GSeeker http://www.gseeker.com/index.rss) 46