• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: [Watchers of the Web] The evolving form of information on the Web?
• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 16:32:08 +0200
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How exactly are you defining percentage, for example percentage of
actual data size would probably be quite a bit differently than
percentage of number of files.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 5/7/06, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
> 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?
>
> /Roger
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