Comments on: Widget Stats http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/04/widget-stats.html Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Niall Kennedy http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/04/widget-stats.html/comment-page-1#comment-4704 Niall Kennedy Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:01:03 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1611#comment-4704 <p>I've been crawling <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory" rel="nofollow">Google Gadgets directory</a> since February, and documenting some of the results on my blog. These widgets might exist within a personal homepage or inside a blog sidebar. I am tracking the 1 billion Google gadget impressions across the web each week. Below, a sampling.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/03/google-gadgets-statistics.html" rel="nofollow">Google Gadgets Ecosystem</a>. How many widgets are currently registered? In what categories? Where are the developers located? What are the most viewed widgets?</li> <li><a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/03/google-gadgets-features.html" rel="nofollow">Google Gadget feature utilization</a>. What widget features are being utilized across the ecosystem? What percentage of gadget views come from Google properties?</li> <li><a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/04/google-gadgets-march-2007.html" rel="nofollow">March update</a>. What are the fastest growing widgets? How has Google's share of gadget views changed?</li> </ul> <p>Google is just one sampling, with a large audience customizing their search page, blog sidebars, and soon enterprise software such as Lotus. Crawling for JavaScript is an interesting approach as well, and the Lijit report provides some good insight.</p> I’ve been crawling Google Gadgets directory since February, and documenting some of the results on my blog. These widgets might exist within a personal homepage or inside a blog sidebar. I am tracking the 1 billion Google gadget impressions across the web each week. Below, a sampling.

  • Google Gadgets Ecosystem. How many widgets are currently registered? In what categories? Where are the developers located? What are the most viewed widgets?
  • Google Gadget feature utilization. What widget features are being utilized across the ecosystem? What percentage of gadget views come from Google properties?
  • March update. What are the fastest growing widgets? How has Google’s share of gadget views changed?

Google is just one sampling, with a large audience customizing their search page, blog sidebars, and soon enterprise software such as Lotus. Crawling for JavaScript is an interesting approach as well, and the Lijit report provides some good insight.

]]> By: Stan James http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/04/widget-stats.html/comment-page-1#comment-4703 Stan James Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:21:23 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1611#comment-4703 Hey Brad, the bubbles are baking and will be out of the oven soon! And Ian, I can send you the data for the widgets. Just add salt. We'll get a higher res scan out asap. Hey Brad, the bubbles are baking and will be out of the oven soon!

And Ian, I can send you the data for the widgets. Just add salt. We’ll get a higher res scan out asap.

]]> By: Ian McAllister http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/04/widget-stats.html/comment-page-1#comment-4702 Ian McAllister Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:01:01 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1611#comment-4702 Very interesting, thanks for posting this. I've been thinking a lot about widgets and data externalization lately and am trying to draw some conclusions about the type of widgets that really provide values to bloggers or blog readers and might get some uptake. It would be great if you could post some numbers or at least another version of the histogram that excludes the head/stat widgets to increase the resolution of the other types of widgets. Very interesting, thanks for posting this.

I’ve been thinking a lot about widgets and data externalization lately and am trying to draw some conclusions about the type of widgets that really provide values to bloggers or blog readers and might get some uptake.

It would be great if you could post some numbers or at least another version of the histogram that excludes the head/stat widgets to increase the resolution of the other types of widgets.

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