BlogCompare version 0.3.1 is now available with the following changes/additions:

v0.3.1 changelog
- added field to choose the number of results to return
- default results now 100 instead of 500 (but 500 can still be chosen), this cuts down on the size of the returned document and should be more bandwidth friendly for dialup modem users

Weekly stats have been refreshed/updated, so go check out where your blog compares or feel free to add your blog. There are 754 blogs currently being tracked in the database. As of this writing, BlogCompare has been used 3,875+ times.

What is BlogCompare?
BlogCompare is stats comparison program between blogs which is based on the Blogebrity lists: A-List, B-List, C-List. Upon seeing that listing I wanted to be able to compare blog stats on more than just the opinion of one entity so I scraped the A-B-C lists, dumped into a database, and then added a variety of different sorting and comparison options including blog stats data from Technorati via their API. Also added the option that bloggers that weren’t listed could add their blogs so they could compare stats. Users can check boxes off to choose different bloggers to compare and they will show up in the middle column. In version 3.x Alexa ratings via their API were added for each blog.

All stats updated and the lists resyncronized roughly once per week. The Technorati and Alexa stats do not change any more frequently than that so there is no point in updating/refreshing the stats.

I continue to develop BlogCompare hence the title: “forever beta” and while it is mostly something used for my own comparisons and research, it’s being shared with the rest of the internet. Currently no registration is required to use the stats program but it is being monitored closely for abuse and this may need to change someday. If you have any questions about how to use BlogCompare, run stat comparisons between bloggers, etc, feel free to use the comments or trackback from your blog to this entry and ask away. There is also a step-by-step How To guide for using BlogCompare.

There is an RSS feed for the BlogCompare category here at MakeYouGoHmm, which you can subscribe to and keep up with new versions and stat update notices.

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