HTML and CSS Statistics Jabber
Jens Meiert, October 26, 2007 / October 5, 2008.
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The great Web Authoring Statistics Ian published about two years ago created some hype, but I fear that other great statistics that give us additional insight on the use of HTML and CSS went down a little bit. I may especially refer to the findings Rene Saarsoo published a few months after the release of the Google stats:
Rene worked his findings up so that they really complement the results Ian presented. A few numbers he published are quite interesting, apart from 67.20 % of pages use CSS in one way or another
(only two thirds …) or 72.2 % of pages with external CSS link only one CSS file, 17.9 % link two files, 4.0 % three and 3.9 % four
(I wonder if that takes into account those inadvisable CC, too – need to ask him that).
I talk about stuff here that might be considered “older”. However, this is certainly caused by my endless bookmarks queue as well as the impression I got on the popularity of Rene’s findings – to me, they just don’t appear to get the attention they deserve.
Now that this is said I may finish my note on web dev stats with a quick reference to other statistics I once found useful. But wait: The success of the HTML Elements Index I created in June was and still is remarkable (thank you), but there’s another great document in this regard Lars Gunther published some time ago: (X)HTML Best Practice Cheat Sheet (PDF, 220 KB). It’s awesome.
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On June 27, 2008, 19:53 CEST, Rene Saarsoo said:
To answer your question (with quite some delay): styles inside conditional comments weren’t taken into account. I used an HTML parser available in CPAN, so I guess it didn’t tried to behave like IE and silently ignored all comments.
But it’s an interesting question. I should take it into account the next time.
