Overview
This HTML usage data comes from 11.3 million index pages gathered from top twenty Google results, for about 30 million keywords - chosen by keyword volume. To learn more about this data, visit the FAQ section.
Total 11,264,652 pages
Doctype
The doctype is the very first line of a HTML document and it specifies which version of (X)HTML that page is using.
From 10,359,566 elements
Basic elements and metadata
The html, which is known as the root element, wraps the contents of a web page and it can be found immediately after the doctype declaration. Metadata contains information about the page like styles, scripts and data to help search engines or browsers to use and render the page.
From 401,982,588 elements
Content sectioning
The content sectioning elements allow you to organize the contents into logical pieces.
From 3,146,320,798 elements
Text content
The text content elements are useful to organize content within the body and they help you identify the purpose of that content.
From 3,146,320,798 elements
Inline text semantics
Use the HTML inline text semantic to define the meaning, structure, or style of a word, line, or any arbitrary piece of text.
From 2,434,811,045 elements
Image and multimedia
HTML supports various multimedia resources such as images, audio, and video.
From 300,679,465 elements
Embedded content
In addition to regular multimedia content, HTML can include a variety of other content, even if it's not always easy to interact with.
From 10,944,873 elements
Scripting
In order to create dynamic content and Web applications, HTML supports the use of scripting languages, most prominently JavaScript. Certain elements support this capability.
From 327,807,359 element
Demarcating edits
These elements let you provide indications that specific parts of the text have been altered.
From 10,477,114 elements
Table content
The elements here are used to create and handle tabular data.
From 213,377,670 elements
Forms
HTML provides a number of elements which can be used together to create forms which the user can fill out and submit.
From 304,182,626 elements
Interactive elements
HTML offers a selection of elements which help to create interactive user interface objects.
From 213,989 elements
Web components
Web Components is an HTML-related technology which makes it possible to, essentially, create and use custom elements as if it were regular HTML. In addition, you can even create custom versions of standard HTML elements, as well.
From 351,472 elements
Obsolete and deprecated elements
These are old HTML elements which are deprecated and should not be used. You should never use them in new projects, and should replace them in old projects as soon as you can. They are listed here for informational purposes only.
From 33,516,893 elements
SVG Overview
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics. There are several ways of including SVG in HTML:
Inline SVG code within HTML
Using SVG as an <img>
Using SVG as an <object>
Using SVG as an <embed>
Using SVG as an <iframe>
The object, iframe and embed methods usage is under 1%.
From 52,135,951 elements
Inline SVG
line SVG refers to SVG code that is included right in the markup.
From 40,173,645 elements
SVG as an IMG
SVG images can be used as an image format:
From 11,918,595 elements
About
The initial blog post on this study was published on CSS-Tricks.
Part two of the CSS-Tricks series, with random interesting facts on HTML/SVG usage.
The average web page study and what it means for modern SEO, on Moz.
Previous awesome studies
Web Authoring Statistics by Google, currently archived and superseded by HTTP Archive
Impressive HTML resources
HTML element reference by MDN
HTML elements by W3C
HTML5 Element Index by HTML5 Doctor
FAQ
Top twenty Google results
The websites from Google's top twenty results are receiving the most traffic, relative to their positions. Therefore we can only assume that their relevance is very high for this study as they are the most popular.
11.3 million index pages
This HTML usage data comes from 11,264,652 index pages gathered from top twenty Google results, for about 30 million keywords - chosen by keyword volume.
32
Most websites use thirty-two different HTML elements, the average computed frequency of HTML elements used on a page.
How fresh is this data
The latest data set is from October, 2020.
