Blogging Roller: Clearly see the big three

Clearly see the big three

"Interesting analysis of the market share of the popular blogging tools by Elise Bauer." She used Google to gather the statistics. From Threadwatch.org via Scoble.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 03:46AM Feb 16, 2005

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The measure that they used seems flawed to me. Here's their own description:

To reduce the confusion that that terminology caused, in this article the sum of the number of websites linking to a weblog tool URL and the number of websites containing the URL will simply be the factor used to determine comparative percentages, or "Google Share".

<p/> It is not clear why they would include the number of websites <em>linking to a given weblog tool URL</em> in the sum. I can see how such links might be used to discover a site, but including it in the sum seems to add a component of "relevance" or readership popularity rather than usage by blog authors.

Posted by Anil Gangolli on February 16, 2005 at 01:38 PM EST #

Some details on the relative contributions of the link-to component are in the details:

Posted by Anil Gangolli on February 16, 2005 at 01:57 PM EST #

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't LiveJournal, Typepad and Movable Type really all the "same" thing?

Posted by Patrick on February 16, 2005 at 08:39 PM EST #

Movable Type and Typepad may be based on the same software (I would assume there is some code sharing since they were both produced by SixApart), but LiveJournal is something else altogether -- as I remember, the software that drives LiveJournal is open source.

Posted by Dave Johnson on February 17, 2005 at 02:15 AM EST #

I think studies like this would interested if they actually measured anything. As Anil pointed out above, the pie chart indicates which services are HOSTING the most blogs, not powering them. For example if you look at the table in his second comment, Wordpress was the third most linked-to blog software, but it barely registers on the pie chart. In answer to his question, she measures the links-to because most blogs have a credit somewhere on the page that says (and links to) what it is powered by. As I said before, they don't seem to have found a meaningful way of measuring this yet.

Posted by Ruby on February 21, 2005 at 02:37 PM EST #

BTW, have you seen the WordPress download counter? http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

They've had almost 30,000 downloads since the new version became available one week ago.

Posted by Ruby on February 21, 2005 at 03:37 PM EST #

Yeah, something tells me that 2% is not a accurate reflection of the Wordpress marketshare.

Posted by Dave Johnson on February 21, 2005 at 03:47 PM EST #