Posts Tagged ‘opera’

Comment is free, bandwidth is not

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I’m ill. :-(

So only a short post today. Opera have released more data from their MAMA survey, including this gem:

MAMA used a MySQL SMALLINT data type (max. value: 65,535) to store the quantity of comments on a page. Surprisingly, in the most extreme cases this was not big enough. Only 1 URL was found to exceed this in MAMA’s URL set [...] http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/all.html. MAMA stored its maximum value of 65,535, but a live analysis showed 146,376 comments in a 9.2MB HTML file!

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Microsoft bashing, with stats

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Opera Software have been busy (sadly not busy fixing the problems Opera browser has with Gmail) and have released the findings of MAMA – a huge study into what the web looks like at the code level. I love this sort of study, but I am a huge geek.

This made me laugh out loud, from the part of the survey looking at whether HTML validates:

Authoring feature used Criteria used to match Quantity validating Total quantity using technology Percentage validating
IIS Web Server Detection of “iis” string in HTTP header Server field 24,743 883,854 2.80%
Apache Web Server Detection of “apache” string in HTTP header Server field 110,834 2,347,328 5.38%

Pages served from IIS are nearly half as likely to validate as pages served from Apache. Is anyone surprised by that finding? Is it due to the difficulty of making ASP (classic or .NET) output valid code or is it due to the mindset of the typical ASP developer?

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