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• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: [Watchers of the Web] The evolving form of informationon the Web?
• From: Ian Graham <ian.graham@u...>
• Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 11:32:13 -0400
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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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