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Costello, Roger L. wrote:
I don't know of anyone who as done this. You could look at server web
logs to observe what a Web server serves out: averaging over a bunch of
servers would give a decent guesstimate. Some sites might be able to
provide historical data also. I believe you can configure Firefox to
log all HTTP traffic, to do something similar from the client side.
Don't know about other browsers.
> Hi Folks,
>
> There are over 350 different content (MIME) types. Some common content
> types include HTML, XML, GIF, JPG, JPEG, MP3, MPEG, RSS, SVG.
>
> Information exchanged on the Web is in the form of one of these content
> types. (Sometimes an information exchange contains a collection of
> items, each item with different content type.)
>
> I would like to know:
>
> Of all the information being exchanged on the Web:
>
> what percentage of the information is in the form of the HTML content
> type, what percentage of the information is in the form of the XML
> content type, what percentage of the information is in the form of the
> GIF content type, what percentage of the information is in the form of
> the MP3 content type, what percentage of the information is in the form
> of the MPEG content type, what percentage of the information is in the
> form of the JPG content type, and so forth, for all the content types.
>
> I speculate that the percentages are something like this:
>
> Content type Percentage
> ---------------------------
> HTML 90%
> JPG 2%
> JPEG 2%
> GIF 2%
> MP3 2%
> XML 1%
> ...
>
> However, that's purely my guess. (What is your guess?)
>
> In addition, I am interested in seeing how the percentage is changing
> over time - I am interested in seeing the evolving form of information
> on the Web.
>
> Has anyone done such an investigation?
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Ian Graham
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