Comments on: Widget Statistics Revival 2.0

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By: alexander-social media guy

alexander-social media guy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:25:21 +0000

While Andy points out some areas these numbers could be improved I like the graphical representations as an easy fast way to see who’s winning the widget wars.

Thanks for at-a-glance resource.

ALexander

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:21:53 +0000

Tony: Thanks for the feedback on the pie charts. I agree that they don’t represent the data in the best possible way. I am open to any suggestions on better methods of visualizing that data.

Andy:
Thanks for the incredibly thorough analysis.
You are correct that the network effect does add a bias to the numbers. We try to be up front about this and indicate that the stats are based on a subset of sites/blogs we have crawled(which also explains the Blogher Ads number).
We focus this report on flash, and javascript widgets because we feel that their existence on a site is a sign of publisher intent to install. We do our best to indicate which widgets are native to a publishing platform(the platform category),and separate these out where we can.

Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions at info at lijit dot com.

By: Charlotte Geary

Charlotte Geary — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:42:24 +0000

I found Lijit’s blog from the NY Times article. Very cool, guys!

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:52:33 +0000

I suppose the numbers all come down to the definition of what a blog and a search widget are…
Forcing the definition to only include javascript and flash makes it extremely biased, because the standard Google search box, with branding outside the text area, doesn’t use javascript.
Thus an extremely high percentage of Google search boxes are ruled out of the equation.
I believe Technorati’s search is also just plain HTML.

Blogger, Myspace and a number of other platforms have Google search by default.

I believe Wordpress.com allows the use of a Google search now, though they default to a database query.

On some of the stats you need to identify whether the inclusion of the code is a choice by the blog owner.

Analytics? You will get Google Analytics on every Blogger and Wordpress.com blog, because it is used by the blog host.

You might also have some extreme bias in blog selection. An obvious example is on the advertising.

Blogherads themselves claim only 2200 blogs in their network, yet somehow they have a 4% market share.

The quantcast stats seem extreme, again must be a decision by the host for their own purposes.

I happen to know the real numbers for Blogcatalog, because I work with them on a few things.
It is nice to see them supposedly having more “widgets” than Google has “search widgets (coop)” but I know in my gut that Google search is on countless millions of sites, not just blogs, and Blogcatalog’s penetation is significantly less.

From what I understand your stats are based upon blogrolls, possibly the blogrolls of the people who have installed Lijit, plus one additional degree of seperation?

That would explain the high Blogher numbers, and Blogrolling numbers, because Blgher members typically have long blogrolls of other members, and it would only take a few to use Lijit to have a significant impact.

Network effects have nasty effects on stats, especially when your pool of data is only 0.1% of the total (at a guess)

As they say, “lies, damn lies, and statistics” - interesting stats, but without detailed analysis of what they actually represent, I don’t think stats are actually useful…

What you are currently showing is probably about as accurate as Alexa data is currently - I currently don’t have a lot of faith in Alexa.

By: Tony Wright

Tony Wright — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:37:17 +0000

Hey guys- Love the stats, though pie charts are a decidedly awful way to display this data.

Anti-piechart rant here: http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/01/11/no-pie-charts-not-ever-says-i/

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:40:17 +0000

Fantastic report guys - it’s a pleasure working with you and growing this ecosystem together.

I’ve reposted some of the stats here http://blog.js-kit.com/?p=15

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:32:22 +0000

Thanks for the great feedback and clarification Jay. The classification side of this data hasn’t had a facelift in a while, so your feedback is invaluable.

The next report iteration will definitely account for your suggestions. Glad you enjoyed the post.

By: Jay Meydad

Jay Meydad — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:47:31 +0000

Daniel,

We are very happy to keep seeing Snap Shots ranked as one of the 10 most popular web widget overall. It is true that Snap Shots is not a “Search” widget. Snap Shots serve users even better than a search engine. They bring the content to the user in the right place and time, and eliminate the need to switch focus to a parallel search process.

My suggestion to you - start a new category called “Semantic Widgets” and track the popularity of services like Snap Shots, Yahoo Shortcuts, AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks, Apture, Lingospot, Zemanta, and the others I have forgotten. You might also want to include blog ranking services who also highlight related content such as Outbrain & Spotback.

I would also like to correct you and say that Snap Shots provide more than previews. There are 13 types of Snap Shots and not just previews, including RSS, Wikipedia, Video, Audio, Photo, Product, Map, Stock, Movie, Profile, WorldOfWarcraft, and the latest one we released - the CrunchBase Shot.

Keep on the good work. Your widgets statistics are great!

—
Jay Meydad
Vice President, Products & Operations
Snap.com