RSS feed analytics - HTTP reverse-proxy?

[chexxor]

I would like to have basic analytics of podcast listeners.
I'm currently planning on generating the RSS feed in Hugo from the posts. This will be a separate url, perhaps available at "www.pure-pandemonium.club/podcastrss.xml".

I don't know how to set up server-side code to add custom handling for a specific URL hosted by our website, so I suspect we'll have to set up an HTTP proxy which logs the HTTP request to Google Analytics or where-ever, and forwards the request to the real RSS feed.

So, the next easiest way to do add custom server code on our domain is a new subdomain, perhaps "rss.pure-pandemonium.club", which reverse-proxies to whatever URL we put it at on Hugo, like "/podcastrss.xml". If we do this, we would set up a Google Cloud Function or AWS Lambda Function, then put a DNS record in to resolve "rss.pure-pandemonium.club" to the URL given to us by the function hosted by that FaaS provider

I think it's pretty important to maintain control over the URL we advertise as our RSS feed, and doing it this way seems like a good balance of simple, low-cost, and retaining control of the advertising URL.

Any thoughts?