Most Google Reader users check it “many” times a day, according to Digg survey

As Digg prepares to launch its own alternative to Google Reader — which is set to shut down on July 1 — the site surveyed about 17,000 Google Reader users to find out how they use the RSS service.

Digg has gotten 8,000 responses so far. One stat that sticks out is that 80 percent of respondents check Google Reader “many times a day,” and 40 percent subscribe to over 100 feeds. “This is a product for power users,” Digg concludes, “and we’ll need to make sure we have some serious infrastructure in place to support that kind of usage for launch.” The survey also finds that most respondents use Google Reader for both work and non-work stuff, suggesting that while this is definitely a product beloved by journalists, they aren’t the only ones using it.