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 cramming in keywords, using AMP, or whatever other chickens Google requires to be sacrificed for a higher ranking. Nevertheless, I do OK. Last year, I added a bit of local-only, lightweight statistics-gathering to my blog. I can see which sites people click on to reach mine. Google is right up the top, DuckDuckGo is surprisingly high, Bing is lucky to crack the top 20 on any day. Similarly, I can see how much traffic I get from the Fediverse and BlueSky (Twitter has all but vanished). A few weeks ago I added RSS and Newsletter tracking. These data are very lossy. If someone is subscribed to my RSS…