survey of top web sites

In the teleconference survey, Josef Spillner writes:

"Clarification would be needed on the top200 vs. top200-US sites survey
suggestions. The latter one would clearly produce skewed results, but
the former one should also not be more than a tiny source of input, as
top sites usually don't build HTML pages, they buy them instead."
 -- http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/tel26Apr/results

I'm not really that picky. If you want to survey the top 200 sites
in the world, go for it. If you want to survey the top 3 sites
in your neighborhood, that's perhaps a little less interesting,
but I'd still like to hear about it.

If we end up with 4 or 5 overlapping surveys (world, europe,
US, asia, by language, by pagerank, by traffic, etc) I think
that would be great.

Does anybody have any progress to report so far? either
for HTML4-happiness or HTML5-happiness or XHTML-happiness?


p.s. for reference, for anyone joining the conversation recently...

a periodic survey of the top 200 web sites
      * e.g. Alexa top 500 
      * do they conform to the current draft? 
              * are the ways they don't conform captured in an issues
                list? 
      * which features do they use? 
      * are they mobile-happy, WAI-happy?

 -- http://esw.w3.org/topic/HtmlTaskBrainstorm

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