Regardless of whether you love Google’s publishing platform or prefer another service, the results apparently speak for themselves.
After testing 5 major blogging services, Blogger not only defeated rivals like WP.com, Typepad and the ever popular Tumblr, but also was the only service to boast a perfect uptime.
The winner was without a doubt Google’s Blogger. The Blogger blogs didn’t have any downtime whatsoever during the two months we monitored them, followed by WordPress.com which had very little downtime. Typepad deserves an honorable mention here as well. Posterous had somewhat mixed results, but overall receives a passing grade. Tumblr was the only service in the test that truly failed. (Royal Pingdom)
WordPress.com came in second, followed by Typepad, Posterous and Tumblr (the latter who received a failing grade due to their recent downtime).
According to Pingdom tests, Posterous apparently is having trouble with fans using custom domains, as the those blogs not only loaded much slower than sites underneath the corporate sub-domain, but also timed out much more frequently.
The perfect uptime of Blogger is a testament to the engineers behind Blogspot, who have in the past fought against DDoS attacks as well trying to provide enough resources to scale the platform (as Blogger has yet to be dethroned by rivals like WordPress.com and Tumblr).
Google is already celebrating the news which could help the company convince Google App users to adopt Blogger as their preferred publishing platform instead of choosing to self host their blog (or even select one of their competitors).
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there is no doubt blogger is a good platform for basic content , and google did make good strides this year updating features like the customizations and stats options but i think it still lack the plugins and raw customization and ownership features of WordPress !
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IMHO, I think WP (self hosted) is a superior option to service hosted platforms. However, as far as service ones go, Blogger does offer a greater degree of customization than WP.com, as they offer users an unlimited supply of widgets (which is Blogger’s version of plugins).
Unfortunately Squarespace was left out of this survey, which is unfortunate given how successful they have been.
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Being able to follow unlimited amount of blogs! Blogger has a limit of 300. Can that be changed?