A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @08:41AM 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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Re:BR tag? by Red+Alastor · 2006-01-25 13:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd guess surrounding the name in a div and then with CSS making that div width equal to 1em and positioning it on the left of your avatar picture.

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Re:what's the point of a 1 billion page sample? by kfg · 2006-01-25 16:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you need to cut a foot long piece of thread off the spool and you have a micrometer, why not use it?

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