# Feeds on the top 1,000 — run 2026-09-08

- Domains probed: 1000
- Front page 200 and HTML (the denominator): 512
- Refused, timed out or not HTML: 488
- **Advertise a feed by autodiscovery: 67 = 13.1 % of readable**
- Of those, at least one advertised feed parses: 63 (94 % of advertisers)
- Of those, at least one advertised feed has an item from the last 30 days: 46 (9.0 % of readable)
- Feed formats among valid advertised feeds (feeds, not domains): {'rss': 75, 'atom': 9}
- No advertised feed but one of /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml parses (hidden): 32, fresh: 19
- **Verdict by the pre-registered rule (dead ≥ 40 %, alive ≤ 15 %): the claim 'RSS is dead' is alive.**

- Sitemaps on the same readable domains (`sitemaps.py`): 368 have one (71.9 %); 293 by a `Sitemap:` line in robots.txt (cached 2026-09-06), 244 by a parseable `/sitemap.xml`; 86 of the 95 feed domains also have a sitemap; 282 have a sitemap and no feed.

- Full text (refetched the 84 valid advertised feeds an hour later; 69 parsed on the refetch): 41 carry the article body — 23 by `content:encoded`, 7 by an Atom `content` element, 12 by a description over 1,500 characters; the other 28 are headline-and-summary feeds.

| rank band | readable | advertise | fresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–100 | 60 | 3 | 2 |
| 101–200 | 50 | 3 | 3 |
| 201–300 | 52 | 6 | 3 |
| 301–400 | 52 | 8 | 6 |
| 401–500 | 43 | 6 | 5 |
| 501–600 | 48 | 7 | 3 |
| 601–700 | 55 | 10 | 9 |
| 701–800 | 45 | 11 | 6 |
| 801–900 | 55 | 9 | 6 |
| 901–1000 | 52 | 4 | 3 |

Fresh advertised feeds, by domain (rank, domain, newest item):

- 48 wordpress.org — 2026-09-07 (rss, 10 items)
- 99 wordpress.com — 2026-08-28 (rss, 10 items)
- 101 capgemini.com — 2026-09-04 (rss, 10 items)
- 153 nytimes.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 19 items)
- 188 lencr.org — 2026-08-11 (rss, 121 items)
- 210 t-online.de — 2026-09-08 (rss, 83 items)
- 262 launchpad.net — 2026-08-31 (atom, 25 items)
- 281 nature.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 75 items)
- 301 debian.org — 2026-09-07 (rss, 30 items)
- 314 php.net — 2026-09-02 (atom, 873 items)
- 329 gnu.org — 2026-09-07 (rss, 60 items)
- 377 plesk.com — 2026-08-24 (rss, 10 items)
- 382 gitlab.com — 2026-08-20 (atom, 40 items)
- 400 nasa.gov — 2026-09-08 (rss, 10 items)
- 414 brave.com — 2026-09-04 (rss, 10 items)
- 441 businessinsider.com — 2026-09-08 (atom, 20 items)
- 446 wp.com — 2026-08-28 (rss, 10 items)
- 453 skyhigh.cloud — 2026-09-04 (rss, 15 items)
- 488 docker.com — 2026-09-03 (rss, 10 items)
- 511 foxnews.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 25 items)
- 544 wired.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 50 items)
- 546 noaa.gov — 2026-09-03 (rss, 10 items)
- 632 branch.io — 2026-09-02 (rss, 10 items)
- 637 surveymonkey.com — 2026-09-03 (rss, 10 items)
- 643 techcrunch.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 20 items)
- 659 elpais.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 148 items)
- 660 dailymail.co.uk — 2026-09-08 (rss, 158 items)
- 661 stackadapt.com — 2026-08-27 (rss, 10 items)
- 693 lemonde.fr — 2026-09-08 (rss, 16 items)
- 694 dailymail.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 158 items)
- 699 cnet.com — 2026-09-08 (atom, 25 items)
- 701 seznam.cz — 2026-09-03 (rss, 50 items)
- 702 independent.co.uk — 2026-09-08 (rss, 100 items)
- 724 spiegel.de — 2026-09-08 (rss, 30 items)
- 747 python.org — 2026-09-01 (rss, 25 items)
- 774 bild.de — 2026-09-08 (rss, 100 items)
- 778 meta.com — 2026-09-03 (rss, 10 items)
- 823 auvik.com — 2026-08-24 (rss, 10 items)
- 833 theverge.com — 2026-09-08 (atom, 10 items)
- 854 myspace.com — 2026-08-31 (atom, 500 items)
- 876 princeton.edu — 2026-09-29 (rss, 200 items)
- 878 pikabu.ru — 2026-09-08 (rss, 40 items)
- 900 latimes.com — 2026-09-08 (rss, 97 items)
- 924 docker.io — 2026-09-03 (rss, 10 items)
- 950 netlify.app — 2026-09-04 (rss, 295 items)
- 992 elmundo.es — 2026-09-08 (rss, 36 items)