Nielsen reports RSS users visit news sites more

November 26, 2005 By

Over on the CyberJournalist site they are reporting on a new report from Nielsen/NetRatings that says that RSS users are significantly more engaged in online news than non-users, visiting an average of 10.6 news sites compared with 3.4 news sites for non-users and also visit three to four times more frequently.

I bet that RSS users are more frequent users of all sites, not just news sites. After all, if you are trying to keep up with more than 10 sites of any type it’s far more productive to do so in RSS. The news sites were the first, though, to really go for RSS in a big way, so I’m sure they’ll lead the trend.

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  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • http://www.0gravity.co.uk/ Alistair Phillips

    For sure RSS users visit sites more often. I have my RSS client, NetNewsWire, open all the time and will often visit a site as soon as I see an update. Much easier than visiting a site only to find that there is no new content.

    But I do however feel bad for the extra load that us RSS users may place on servers. My refresh has been set to 60 minutes – what’s yours? Actually would be quite cool if in your website you could specify to the RSS client that you want it to refresh at a specified interval.

  • Hasan

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  • Hasan

    What’s an “rss”?

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    What’s an “rss”?

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    @Hasan
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    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

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    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

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    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • http://developers.pl/blogs/ghostrider/default.aspx ghostrider

    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

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    @Hasan
    Really Simple Syndication

    more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • Christopher Coulter

    That’s a stupidly flawed survey, they have no control group. Have you ever thought that news hounds, themselves, just use RSS more? Not that RSS makes you a news hound? And anyone that is a REAL news hound, knows that half of news isn’t EVEN in the feeds.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Christopher: actually now that Google News has RSS for all of its news, I don’t think the percentage is as high as you might think it is.

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