Who Reads My RSS Feed?
The author explores the traffic to their RSS feeds after moving their site to Cloudflare Pages. They discovered a diverse range of feed readers and user agents accessing their content, including both popular hosted services and self-hosted solutions. The findings highlight the unique characteristics of the feed reader ecosystem compared to traditional web browsing.
- ▪The author moved their site to Cloudflare Pages to gain access to proper server logs.
- ▪Over 700 unique user agent strings were identified, representing tens of thousands of requests.
- ▪The traffic included both well-known feed readers like Feedly and self-hosted options like Miniflux and Bubo Reader.
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Who Reads My RSS Feed?May 18th, 2026 • ~4,000 words • 20 minute readI recently moved my site from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages, partly to consolidate the services I'm using and partly to finally have proper server logs. Plausible is great for getting the gist of who's visiting and where they're coming from, but sometimes I'm curious about things like:Who is actually using my RSS feeds?What weird bots are sniffing around?Which home-rolled projects are people running against my site?I have an RSS feed, a JSON feed, and an experimental plain-text feed. I wanted to see who or what was actually pinging them.I've been able to collect these logs for about a week now—a week that happened to include one of my posts hitting the front page of Hacker News.
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