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I swear Google has published a report from their crawl data about how in/frequently different tags and frameworks were used, in part to determine what they might need to support in Chrome. I'm not able to find this anymore. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

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This is the one that Hixie published back in 2006. It helped guide a lot of the early decision-making in the WHATWG when it came to proposing new tags for HTML5 in a bid to reduce the number of div's out there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060203035414/http://code.googl...

The mantle has now been passed to the HTTP Archive, whose Web Almanac includes a section on the popularity of HTML elements:

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/markup#elements

BTW: I got 97, which is 96 more than the number of friends I have :)

That's it! Exactly what I was thinking of.

> BTW: I got 97

Looked up your name plus the word 'w3'. I am not surprised to find involvement in an HTML spec discussion :D The top result on duckduckgo was <https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/1433#issuecomm...>.

https://chromestatus.com/

Click the stats on the left

That's from live Chrome user metrics, so it's page-view weighted and doesn't include enterprises and other users that opt-out.

HTTP Archive has similar data, but from the web crawler, so page views don't matter.

Arguably, a tag is "used" when it is viewed.

I could write a page with a dozen marquees in it, but those marquees will be far less used than a single one on Google's homepage.

I couldn't find anything either, my searches quickly get flooded with SEO spam.

But it shouldn't be to hard finding each of these individually.

Here are some links I could find:

https://www.advancedwebranking.com/seo/html-study

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library

Given that DIV seems to be the only tag frameworks use the last 10+ years, such a report is not surprising.

What do you mean by that? I know a lot of devs just blast div everywhere, but frameworks? Which ones?

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