RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam’s blog post where they said that “most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds” - I wondered if that was true for my site. I’ve been writing this blog for a while. I’ve never much bothered with “aggressive” SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I’m not…

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Interesting! Didnt realize RSS had such an impact.

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If an email is opened and the tracker image is loaded, I get a hit

Yeah, you should disable this feature in your client. Spammers use that data too, to determine if the address is active, can be spammed more.

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If you use a duck duck go email, they’ll filter that for you.

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One is repeat users and the other is new potential users. This is two different type of users. It is probably expected that repeat users outnumber new users

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RSS was always all we needed.

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He’s tracking fedi too. Guess that’s a +1 from me on that stat.

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Holy shit how can you read that? For a minute I thought the text was encoded until maybe I clicked a button, then I thought it might be Arabic, now I see that’s it’s English but I can’t even make out all the letters. No thanks.

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Did you maybe accidentally turn on the “drunk” mode at the top?

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It does seem like what I’m seeing would be someone’s idea/joke of a drunk mode, but it’s how the page loads for me - I didn’t click anything. And I can’t read the buttons to see if one days “turn off drunk mode”.

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Press one of these two buttons (🌒Dark) (☀️Light): 1295

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Weird, it didn’t activate it by default for me. But it’s just one of the themes at the top. Just click “Dark” or something and it’ll switch to that.

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Hey! I run that website - sorry the Drunk Mode was confusing. It shouldn’t activate by default. Have you previously visited and turned it on?

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I don’t remember your name or the URL, and I’m not finding it in my browsing history, but it’s possible I visited before. But I can’t imagine why I would have ever turned on drunk mode, let alone left it on.

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You can switch the themes right below the socials and the profile picture. I have no idea what happened, because when I load the site, it’s loading in dark mode. It’s definitely the drunk mode, though that button is off-screen

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Lmao beer goggles for the web, activating at random

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