Hiccup with FeedBurner

I was surprised when I woke up this morning to find that my feed count was about 3-400 less than what it should be. At first I was amazed that so many people unsubscribed just because I missed a day or two of posting (yesterday was the last day of finals, so cut me some slack!), but after noticing this post on Dave‘s blog I realized it was just a hiccup in the system.

Apparantly Google’s Feedfetcher is not displaying accurate results for some people, including me. Here is a little before and after:

Before (Monday of last week):

After (Yesterday):

As you can see if your blog has seen a drastic drop in subscriber numbers it is probably just Google’s Feedfetcher screwing up, so don’t be alarmed. What confuses me is how Feedfetcher is only having a problem displaying some of the readers. Also, it does not seem to be a global problem as some other blogs I visit seem to have the correct amount of subscribers.

I know this may not seem like a big deal, but that is about another 300 daily feed impressions at least that I am not getting credit for, thus my FeedBurner Ad Network impressions (which are paid by CPM) are lower than they should be. That means perhaps less money from FAN which actually accounts for about 10% of this blog’s monthly revenue. Hopefully they’ll get this fixed soon.