every wonder how the unwashed masses are using attributes of
the ‘a’ element? sure you have. well,
now you know
:
“While thinking about linking, I was curious about
real-world use of attributes of the A element in web pages. After
considering various ways to gather sample data to churn through, I
found the Google programming contest, which links to a tar.gz file
with 162 megs of sample web pages. After John Cowan told me about
Yahoo’s random link (http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl) and curl I
also wrote a script to have curl pull down about 7000 random pages
from Yahoo for a total of about 62 megs. I then wrote some scripts
to analyze the use of A attributes in the Google and Yahoo sample
data and the results are below.”
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