If you’re a subscriber to Feedburner, you may not be seeing the “FeedCount” field in the “Subscription Stats” section of your account. This is because Feedcount is not currently being displayed on the site. We’re working on a fix and will have it up and running soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to see how many people are subscribed to your feed, please use our “Subscription Stats” page to do so.
For example, here is the URL to our main articles feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowToGeek
To see the Feed Count numbers, all you need to do is insert “/~fc” right before the /HowToGeek part of the URL, like this:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/HowToGeek
When you go to that link in your browser, you can see the feed count for that feed:
I’ve used this trick to see how many subscribers many of my favorite sites actually have, even though they don’t display the widget. This even works for people using the “branded” feed URLs from Feedburner, like feeds.mysite.com/feedname
But if you are a blogger that doesn’t want anybody to see your subscriber numbers, you need to go into the Feedburner Publicize tab and click on FeedCount, and then Deactivate:
Then if anybody tries to see the counts, they will see this error message:
Go forth, and check your Feed Settings (and your competition)
