Feedburner Moved To Google

So my feeds have now moved over to Google, but with their supposedly “more accurate reporting method”, my feed values have dropped significantly. My feed count for Daily Eco Tips was 108 before the move, and it dived to 78 (a 27.7% drop); my feed count for EnviroGadget was 165 before the move, diving to 112 after the move (a 32.1% drop); my feed count for PowerDosh was 43 before the move, and now 23 after the move (a 46.5% drop).

So those massive drops cannot be just down to Google’s more accurate logging methods, even though the numbers are roughly consistent. I noticed a 30-50% drop on all of my RSS feeds, so I get the impression that Google’s measurements are too harsh compared to Feedburners older metrics.

The reason why I say this is if there was a RSS feed count that was particularly high, it’d be on just a minority of the sites. Perhaps due to lots of scrapers hiding their user-agents. A consistent drop across all of the feeds suggests a uniform change in the metrics.

Regardless of the drop, the numbers are still lower than my targets for 2009. However, due to some interesting changes, I’m hoping that the rate of growth for my sites will increase exponentially.

Have you seen a drop in your RSS count with the transition from Feedburner to Google?