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4.13% of the web is standards compliant

Arstechnica reports on Opera’s web study:

Opera also ran the pages indexed by MAMA through the W3C’s validation tools to see how many conform with standards. The results show that only 4.13 percent are valid.

Ahhh how I love statistics, especially headline grabbing ones like this. It’s a shame they can’t measure the ‘as close to validating as to not make the blindest bit of difference to anything or anyone’ percentage – I think it would be a lot higher, and more representative of the general state of the web today.

As it is I think this particular stat might just get Jeff Croft all wound up again.

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One Response to “4.13% of the web is standards compliant”

  1. Jeff Croft says:

    Nothing to get wound up about, here. As you’ve already figured out, this is a silly stat that means nothing at all. Best to just ignore it.

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