A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages
 

Geek fun: As part of a recent examination of the most popular html authoring techniques, my colleague Ian Hickson parsed through a billion web pages from the Google repository to find out what are the most popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. We decided that to publish this would be of significant utility to developers. It's also a fascinating look into how people create web pages. For instance one thing that surprised me was that the < title > is more popular than < br >. The graphs in the report require a browser with SVG and CSS support (like Firefox 1.5!). Enjoy