The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup Chapter is Out
https://almanac.httparchive.orgThe HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac report provides us with data about what kinds of websites are out there, in the 2020 version they looked at 7,546,709 pages (5,593,642 on desktop, 6,347,919 on mobile) using the latest data on which websites users are visiting in 2020.
Some highlights
- 22.36% of all documents specify no lang attribute. en tops the lang attribute on the html with 18.08%
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script
is the 6th most frequently used HTML element - div, a, span are the top 3 elements used on a page
- top custom elements come from three sources: Yandex Metrics, Slider Revolution, Wix
- obsolete elements like marquee, blink, etc are still used.