- From: Rene Saarsoo <nene@triin.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:31:43 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
Dailey, David P. wrote:
> One resource this group should probably be aware of
> is Google's page on "Web Authoring Statistics".
As Google only lists top 19 most used elements, which
doesn't include neither abbr nor acronym, I can provide
the results of my own little survey [1], which shows,
that acronym is a bit more popular than abbr:
Element Percentage Total nr of pages
name of pages in selection
having it containing it
-------------------------------------------
! acronym 0.19 1383
code 0.18 1323
csimport 0.18 1293
dir 0.17 1263
csactionitem 0.17 1202
legend 0.16 1153
o:smarttagtype 0.16 1148
image 0.15 1094
s 0.15 1086
! abbr 0.14 1045
Of course, they both are quite unpopular and
there's quite a bit of noise in my research at
that level of granularity, but hopefully this
data provides some insight.
Not that I'm in favor of acronym, but the popularity
is certainly one aspect to consider.
Rene Saarsoo
[1] http://triin.net/2006/06/12/Coding_practices_of_web_pages
Received on Friday, 23 March 2007 14:32:25 UTC