There are tons of places to see how much traffic you and your competition are receiving. From Alexa to Compete, these tools are numerous and plentiful. You could spend days sitting at your computer, analyzing your competitions’ traffic patterns.

But what about the number of RSS subscribers? Surely that’s a valid stat to compare with competition blogs and websites? But for years, there haven’t been any decent tools to do so. Anyone who was curious about subscribers would have to visit each blog manually and hope that the site displayed the number of subscribers as reported by FeedBurner.

Now, there’s a new tool called Feed Compare which is surprisingly similar (in function and ease of use) to Compete. Enter in a few feed addresses, click the compare button, and you’re all set to go. You get a full chart comparing the subscriber number for your site and your competition. Easy as that.

The service works well. It’s free. It’s flashy. It can track back to two years. The only real problem is that you can only track feeds that use FeedBurner. Luckily enough, any site that’s worth its weight in text is going to use FeedBurner anyway–so no big deal.

Via BlogPerfume.