Is this a clue?

This little chart displays statistics from my Feedburner RSS feeds. The green line displays subscribers, a fairly constant number between 400 and 450. The blue line, which has dropped dramatically over the past week, represents “reach”.

Reach is the total number of people who have taken action — viewed or clicked — on the content in your feed.

As you can see, reach has fallen off the table. Are dead links responsible?

Since a number of Internet Explorer users have reported links to comments, to single entries, and to the calendar and other sidebar objects do not work, this is an interesting coincidence.

Any additional ideas from the geeks among you would be appreciated.

I suspect some kind of conflict with something in the sidebars. If that is the case, one of my next steps has to be removing everything from the sidebars and then adding items back one at a time until the one that causes the problems is found.

At least, if it is one of those causing the problems.

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