Google Analytics provides a server-side API for sending data to their servers; this is the generally approved way of tracking views of a page that can't include Javascript, such as an RSS feed. You just send a specially formatted http request to Google's servers when the page is requested.
Has anyone got a plugin or other solution for sending either (a) GA requests specifically or (b) just HTTP requests in general from a Craft template? If so, then I can set that template not to cache, and get at least some rough idea of how many views I've got on the feed. (And if not, I'll break down and write my own plugin, but I'm hoping not to have to.)