as well as lists of what rel values appear most together (on the same page and/or within individual rel=”"s)
this could also be used to detect common errors (capitalization, spelling, wrong separators) which could be used in the w3c’s html validator or html tidy
]]>In this case I really was curious about total usage, as I was wondering specifically about values like ‘me’ and ‘muse’, which legitimately appear more than once.
That said, I might re-run the test counting only once per page, just to compare.
Also, I didn’t normalize to lowercase, but in retrospect I should have.
Thanks for the link, Philip.
Cheers,
-DeWitt
]]>(Also I didn’t split on tokens or convert to lowercase, since I wanted to see the original values.)
My data also shows a lot of similar rel patterns like rel=”track:track_pagetag=…” and rel=”balloon29″ and rel=”lightbox[pkguitars]“, presumably all coming from a handful of pages that are abusing the semantics of rel. It’d be interesting to know how many of your 1.8M unique values are instances of this kind of pattern coming from a small number of pages, and how many are real legitimate-looking values.
]]>Either way, it will be interesting to see what values are popular on feed-oriented sites as opposed to the general web. I suspect that certain values will appear just as frequently, such as ‘nofollow’. But others, like the ‘openid’ values, won’t be used much at all.
]]>Yeah. I was thinking about rel=”canonical” as well.
I suspect this will shoot right near the top..
We’re going to be posting automated stats on our crawler in our next release…. which should be any day now :)
]]>For clarification, that sentence should read:
I never really thought about the usage of the “rel” attributes to <a> and <link> and until now. I never understood the point of XFN, and am pretty sure that I’ve only ever used “rel=’nofollow’” in my history of web design and web app programming.
]]>I never really thought about the usage of the “rel” attributes to and until now. I never understood the point of XFN, and am pretty sure that I’ve only ever used “rel=’nofollow’” in my history of web design and web app programming.
I’ve known that there were a few people that put more thought of what goes into the “rel” attribute, but your quantification of the usage, and how the attribute is exactly being used, really puts it into perspective.
I’d love to see a followup post that explained more about how you got these results. :)
]]>Re: Claire, “Fishing” is an excellent angle into the problem – why don’t we call phishing what it is for everyone else – attempted fraud? When someone has been phished, they have been defrauded of their personal information. When that information is used, it’s theft. Plain and simple.
So, how do we go about addressing the social issues and educating people? Phishing blacklists seem like a good start, since they’re fundamentally education, but what else can we do?
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