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A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the demanding-a-recount dept.

chrisd writes "As part of a recent examination of the most popular html authoring techniques, my colleague Ian Hickson parsed through a billion web pages from the Google repository to find out what are the most popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. We decided that to publish this would be of significant utility to developers. It's also a fascinating look into how people create web pages. For instance one thing that surprised me was that the <title> is more popular than <br>. The graphs in the report require a browser with SVG and CSS support (like Firefox 1.5!). Enjoy!"

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  1. BR tag? by p0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With css power you really do not need to use br, maybe that is the reason for the small stats for the tag's use?

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  2. Re:what's the point of a 1 billion page sample? by Durinthal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can have a larger sample, why not use it? It's more accurate that way.

  3. Ad for anti-IE by jamienk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like a subtle push against IE: many mantions of the HTML 5 spec (which is being written by WHAT a workgroup that includes many browser companies but not MS); use of SVG; written by a major FF developer.

    Way to go Google! Pour on the pressure!

  4. Re:Dumb by Spad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's even dumber to state that someone is presenting pictures with Flash when they're actually using SVG.