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• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: [Watchers of the Web] The evolving form of informationon the Web?
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:03:21 +1000
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hi roger,

you could only make that estimate if you

a. have little expereince of bittorrent and usenet
b. see most internet usage as work related
c don't have teenage children

this is a very domain dependent problem ;)

cheers

rick

Costello, Roger L. 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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