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Google HTML Analysis: " Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics: Google parsed a billion Web pages and pulled some stats out of the HTML. We can now add to this data. In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below. We hope this is of use! Some random notes: The most common META tags specified: keywords description robots generator (thanks, FrontPage) author The BODY tag is a huge repository of non-CSS badness (bgcolor, margin, link, etc.) Very few people put an “id” on the BODY tag. I do this for pages that directly relate to an identifiable object in the system, so that I can make per-object CSS changes, if necessary (having ‘id=”object_232”’ on your BODY tag is handy like you wouldn’t believe). Very few people use COLGROUP. People should use it more. Most popular class names for elements: footer menu title small text Google notes that these class names map “very well to the elements being proposed in HTML5.” They single out GoLive for crappy HTML: GoLive’s footprints are all over the Web. A scary number of pages use <table gridx=”” gridy=”” showgridx=”” showgridy=”“>, not "