Hvassing.com

Matt pointed out a site with some rather interesting statistics. Google, being the inovative company as they are, did a survey with approximately a billion pages and looked at structural trends in those. The one I found the most intriguing was the page listing the most popular elements on the average page. If anyone were do such a thing, it just had to be Google. Not only do they have the personal interest in doing so, but they also have the skill of collecting information quick, safe and in a reliable way. Since Google don't offer any web authoring services, other than Blogger, the information is likely to be unbiased as well and highly valid. Which is always a good thing in terms of statistics.

What one can read from this is that most webmasters are quite good at using their title-tag, but as Google points out, most people seem to misuse the meta-tag. The common mistake seem to be the lack of quotation around the value, ".

The next most-frequently-featured element is meta, followed by br. The img, meta and br elements are each present on roughly the same number of pages.

-- Google Code ( http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/elements.html )

So we're more interested in telling people, or rather search engines, about our site than we are with formatting text? I wounder if Google will be offering a small-scale version of this service for people to check their pages in one go to see if they have all the tags and elements they would like to have.