WordPress or Blogger - Which one is the best?

There are a wealth of blogging services and software out there -- so which should you use?

Are you confused with which blogging platform to choose to start your blogging career? The major blogging hosting platforms are no doubt Blogger and WordPress.

Blogger was one of the first blogging tools available. Launched back in 1999 by Pyra Labs, it was bought by Google in 2003 and has been considerably redesigned since

WordPress is based on the popular WordPress open source server-based blogging software first released in 2003 that underlies many sites on the Web -- Wordpress.org claimed in August of 2011 that its server software powered nearly 15% of the top million web sites in the world.

 Now to judge which one is better I have written a detailed comparison chart below that will be of great help in making a smart decision.

Note:- I am not an employee of either Blogger or WordPress. The below chart is solely my personal research.

FEATURES	BLOGGER	WORDPRESS	WHO WON?
Template Customization	Offers Free Layout/Style Sheet Customization	No style sheet customization. Payment required	Blogger
Tutorials/Help	Innumerable Tutorials on Blogger Tricks	Hardly some	Blogger
Number of un-official Themes	Innumerable Designers Creating Free Templates each day	Few Designers Involved in offering free templates	Blogger
Coding Used	Uses user friendly scripting and coding i.e HTML, XML, CSS	Uses advance scripting like php that few can understand	Blogger
Dashboard Interface	Highly user friendly. Easy to navigate.	Complicated Interface with hectic navigation	Blogger
Default Template Collection	Limited Collection Of Default templates mostly un-professional	Over 70+ high quality Templates	WordPress
Template/Theme Replacement	Default Template can be replaced by a more free professional template	No template change allowed	Blogger
Widgets	Innumerable Official and Un official Widgets available	Limited Official widgets available. Rarely few un- official gadgets available.	Blogger
Comments	No commenting editing. Moderation allowed. No Spam protection. No user friendly comment form	Comments can be edited and moderated. Spam protection available. User friendly comment form	WordPress
SEO, Optimization	Though Owned by Google, no favoritism. Manual optimization is required	Owned by a private party. Meta Tags Plugins used. Easy To optimize	Both
Blog Privacy	You can limit access to your blog to 100 Authors and 100 readers. All must be Google account holders.	You can limit access to your blog to 35 Wordpress account holders. Posts can be password protected or Private.	Blogger
Comment restriction	You can restrict comments to Google account holders, Open ID users or Any one (includes Anonymous)	Comments can not be restricted. Anyone can comment	Blogger
Blog Import	Only from one BlogSpot blog to another	A Blog can be imported from another WordPress blog or from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, LiveJournal and Movable Type and TypePad	WordPress
Posts and Comment Notification	Authors and subscribers can be notified of latest posts and comments via Email	Same here	Both
Comment Verification	Asks users to verify if they are humans using a 4-6 digit code	Does not asks for any verification. More spam effected	Blogger
Video Storage Limit	Unlimited with Google Video and an upload limit of 16GB	Just 3GB. More space on upgrade.	Blogger
Image storage limit	1 Gigabyte With Picasa Web Albums	3 Gigabytes. More space can be gained through upgrade. You can also upload.ppt, .doc, .odt and.pdf files	WordPress
File type Storage	Only allows image uploading	Allows upload of files like .ppt, pdf .doc and .odt files. More file types can be uploaded on upgrading.	WordPress
Blog Stats	Does not have any default stats system. But allows third party tracking scripts.	Has a default visitor stats system that shows statistics for two days only and does not provide detailed stats reports. Does not allow third party tracking scripts.	Blogger
Blog co-partners	100 Google account holders can be added as Administrators or Authors	35 WordPress account holders can be added as Administrators, Editors, Authors or Contributors.	Blogger
Advertisements	Displays no advertisement of its own on your blog.	Displays discreet AdSense advertisements on your blog for small percentage of the page views	Blogger
Posts By Email	Has a Mail-to-Blogger feature which turns any email account into a blog-posting application	Posts can be published using emails	Both
Post Feed On Mobile Phones	Supported	Not Supported	Blogger

Conclusion

When choosing a blogging service three things are most important than anything else which are,

1. Template Editing
2. Huge Image Storage Capacity
3. Huge Video Storage Capacity

Believe it or not Blogger has all these three features and is undoubtedly a blessing to millions of teenagers and people from other classes who can’t afford to pay online. The Template editing feature of Blogger is one of its best feature. Within a year of blogging a guy like me who didn’t even know what CSS, HTML, XML meant, is now playing with codes day and night. Blogger made my life meaningful and interesting and will surely be a blessing to you too. Blogger is surely the best free Blogging Service available in Blogosphere if equipped with a good web hosting service.