A giant listing of your bad HTML

Google released an interesting study about the content of over a billion webpages in their database. It’s nicely seperated into categories of markup, and identifies the most used HTML tags and attributes. I found the comments on the most frequent mistakes very interesting. Obviously many tags are used incorrectly for presentational (instead of semantic) purposes, and many pages are brimming with deprecated elements. A surprising number of pages had specialized tags, and in some cases, there’s no known online documentation that tells which program generated them or for what purpose. It’s a fun read.

About Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala is a frontend developer, open source contributor, bowler hat enthusiast, and karaoke addict. You might be familiar with his project, Feathers UI, an open source user interface library for Starling Framework that is included in the Adobe Gaming SDK.