What percent of web pages are W3C Standards Compliant?
Opera collected data on over 3 million web pages to find out how they are being coded. Are they standards compliant? Are they verified by the W3C as standards compliant? Do they contain flash? A selection of interesting web-based statistics found here.
One statistic says that there are more webpages containing a “table” tag than there are sites that contain a “tr” or “td” tag. Are there then lots of empty tables out there on the web? Maybe it’s just that some WYSIWYG HTML editors may allow users to create tables, and not delete the table objects when the user deletes all the rows and columns. Go figure this one out: Opera reports that 33.5% of pages contain Flash. That seems high. Can it all be accounted for by YouTube videos embedded in people’s web pages, MySpace music players and ads?
- hmslydia