Re: [syndication] Re: robots.txt and rss

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> Also on that page (at the bottom) are some statistics on the average size
> of feeds in each known RSS version, along with a pointer to the most
> corpulent feed of each kind (kind of a "big and tall" shop for feeds :-). We
> have some monstrous feeds; the largest feed is over 340KB.

Given that the ambiguities between RSS being "lightweight news", "site
summaries" and "content stuffed feeds from hell" it's no surprise to see
gargantuan feeds.  All are the result of 'local interpretations' of the specs.
An adventure not aided by the documentation.

The 340k one appears to be a site summary.  A nice one too.
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=5539

The 301k RSS-2.0 behemoth is being driven out of a Radio Userland site:
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=8916

Not to mention it's got <script> code embedded in it!  Perhaps Radio should be
taking greater pains to not produce such problematic feeds?  It's certainly a
suggestion I've raised before.

The largest 0.92 feed weighs in a 193k and is from Ben's MT comments:
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=10234
Perhaps he could slim it down a bit.

The largest 0.91 feed is 200k.  I can't read Icelandic so I've no idea what it's
about.
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=10392
And since it's lacking a language tag it's now marked as 'awaiting repair'.
The Validator raises an interesting question about the <nagportal> element.
http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjoi.betra.is%2Fdagbok.
rss

One of those pseudo-version feeds is Dave's own:
http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=11722

Perhaps it'd be good to have your copy of Radio republish all of it's RSS, eh
Dave?

Beyond just feed size there's item size.  There's pretty wide range of headlines
per day discoveries too.


-Bill Kearney