Pool stats are now running on a 1 hour delay. Current round stats/estimated reward have been removed to remove any way to scrape data from the website to determine when we have started a new round.
Anybody using the API should remove the following pieces from their code:
estimate_reward, round_shares, round_stales, round_time
They will be taken out of the API in about a week. Until then they have been filled in with dummy data to avoid breaking gadgets/parsers, as well as give me some good stats on how much speed is involved in pool hopping.
You already did, thanks. I'm thinking about removing BTCGuild from the supported pools on my application, it has been a pain trying to support it. Random failure on retrieving data, sometimes it took over 20 seconds and i had to totally rewrite the update code only for that, API changed with no warning...