Stats On Google Gadgets

Niall Kennedy did earlier this month an exhaustive analysis of Google Gadgets, coming out with a lot of graphs, facts and figures that would make your head spin. If you’re a geek for infoporn, you’ll love his post on it.
A taste:

The average Gadget is 181 pixels
20 or so Gadgets require you to be using Firefox
Google’s 48 Gadgets account for 44% of all Gadget page views

More stats at this post, too.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg