Stats on Blog widgets and tools

I wanted to find out what are the most used widgets and tools on a blog. For this I thought of visiting 30 blogs randomly selected on blogger as it has the next blog link on it tool bar. It was surprising to see that what most of the blogs used was

  • Profile
  • Archive
  • Previous Posts
  • AdSense
  • Google Search
  • Links
There were just 2 blogs using Technorati and 3 blogs with counters. I had to remove many tools from comparison as they had only one blog using them .. some of them being feedburner, odeo, book list etc.Some blogs just had google search and adsense obviously targeted at the keyword search. I could not find out the hidden widgets/tools such as google analytics, mybloglog tracking or any other hidden trackers. I am posting the spread sheet created below and so that anybody interested can come out with their own interpretation.

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