It’s stats playtime again. I’ve been seeing the PubSub spider in my server logs, and decided to check it out.

Pubsub is a feed subscription service that looks like it’s similar to Bloglines, where you can view blog feeds from a variety of sources in one place. This morning I’ve been exploring PubSub’s Pubstats. Plug in your url and it will give you a day by day listing of how many blog posts have linked to you in the past month. It doesn’t seem to count blogrolls, and as I understand it, examines only rss/atom feeds. Since many sites only feed the first 5 lines, if you’re mentioned “below the fold” in a post, it won’t turn up here.

It also gives you a Link Rank for each day, placing you on a percentage scale based on incoming links. Mine ranged from a high of Top 19% to a low of Top 86%. I have no idea how it’s figured since my numbers so low as to be statistically non-existent, but I’d love to hear from those of you with more interesting data.

For me, nothing earth shattering there, but a fun toy to check out from time to time.