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Saw this breakdown over at one of my buddies sites this morning and found it pretty interesting and anticipated at the same time. Coming from the big Goog’s themselves, and you know they have the logs and data backing to prove the numbers, it’s interesting to see the breakdown, they do have a lot more on the site to read through.

The ten elements used on the most pages, and the twenty attributes that the most pages use with those elements:

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics: Elements and attributes
Most people (roughly 98%) include

head

,

html

,

title

and

body

elements. This is somewhat ironic, since three of those four elements are optional in HTML. It’s interesting to see that most pages have a title, though.

The most-used element other than those four is the

a

element. Almost all pages that have an a element specify the

href

attribute on an a element somewhere, and more than half of pages use the

target

attribute on the a element somewhere.

The next most used element is the

img

element, with three quarters of all pages using the deprecated

border

attribute on at least one of img element, and around 24% of pages that use img elements not specifing

alt

attributes on any of their images.

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