[uf-discuss] FYI: Google web authoring statistics

[Mark Rickerby]

Sorry if some of you have already seen this, if not, I think it's
quite interesting...

Google's massive survey of text/html documents on the web:
http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html

Of specific relevance to this list:

http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/classes.html

class="title" is the third most commonly used class, and
class="content" the 6th most, which could be significant in terms of
some of the recent hatom/hcard/hreview disambiguation discussions.

http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html

It looks like only a tiny % of hyperlinks use the rel attribute, but
of those that do, that data is also interesting.

rel="nofollow" is *far* more common than anything else, but
rel="license" is surprisingly widespread too. rel="tag" is catching up
to rel="bookmark", though their commentary on this is a little
disparaging.

Though I do find their phrase "rampant bad UI" quite amusing, and
unfortunately all too true.

see also...
http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/linkrels.html

Regards,
Mark