Google code analysis and another nifty Firefox extension

Google have released some statistics on web pages they have analysed:

In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below. We hope this is of use!

I would very much say so, so have a read about Google code webstats

Another Firefox extension I hadn’t known of earlier is Firebug which put together the best of JS console and the DOM inspector and even shows you your XMLhttpRequest data!

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2 Responses to “Google code analysis and another nifty Firefox extension”

  1. Rob Wilmshurst Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    Fascinating reading, good find!
    The class section is especially interesting, especially where the most common class names correspond with proposed elements in HTML5.

    ‘Twas great to meet you on Monday night:)

  2. Andy Hume Says:
    January 27th, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Yes… absolutely fascinating stuff. In particular the amount of proprietary editor code that is lying about. “…more {o:p} elements (from Microsoft Office) on the Web than there are {h6} elements. Astonishing.

    And also, was great to meet you on Monday night. :)

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