Question For All You RSS / XML Geeks
 

What is the 'ideal' amount of articles to place in an XML file?

Obviously i dont want to have a file with a couple of hundred articles in it but, at the same time, i dont want to have a couple of hundred single article RSS files.

Is there a 'standard' article count that is commonly accepted as 'just enough'?

Regards,

Lee

15?

don't put the whole article in there, just the headlines, and frankly, i'd put all of the headlines in, how much is a few hundred lines of text, a couple k? (if that)

Oh i know not to put the whole article in... only snippets.

I was more concerned as to whether or not any of the RSS search aggregates will frown upon having 200+ articles contained in one feed.

I know content is good when it comes to RSS but where does to much content become overkill?

Regards,

Lee

If the articles are in a database, use mod_rewrite to group it by date then or something, perhaps make it so you have rss/12-15-04.rss have all in it from that date until now. or just archive them...

7



I really dunno but 7 sounds like a good number.

Lee what's going on with the money you owe?

I've done quite a bit of mainstream RSS work and it looks like 10 - 30 is the accepted norm - much more and users get pissed that other feeds are drowned out, less and you lose prominance.

Thanks thats the sort of feedback i was looking for and along the lines of what i was thinking the appropriate figure would be too :thumbsup

Regards,

Lee