I’m working on a State of the Web episode about design and pulling stats for the popularity of design systems like Bootstrap . Here’s the analysis: SELECT SUBSTR(_TABLE_SUFFIX, 0, 10) AS date, IF(ENDS_WITH(_TABLE_SUFFIX, 'desktop'), 'desktop', 'mobile') AS client, SUM(IF(app = 'Bootstrap', 1, …

How did you get to the last statement in this post? There’s over 1.5 billion websites active online right now and 1 million websites doesn’t represent 25%

Weclome DeanoLingardo ! :slight_smile: If you consider the URLs in the HTTPArchive dataset to be a representative sample of the web and you find that 25% of those URLs have Bootstrap, then it’s a reasonable extrapolation that ~25% of the web uses Bootstrap. There’s another argument to be made here …

What @patrickhulce said! The second to last image shows the relative percent, which we can extrapolate to the entire web, assuming that our sample set is representative (I believe it is). [image]

@rviscomi When you say the data is representative of the web, is it a representative sampling of all sites, giving equal weight to obscure abandoned sites as to the most popular active sites today? Or is it a representative sampling of page loads? Reason: I’d like to look at, eg, Bootstrap usage as…

Yes, I believe equal weight is given to all sites. If you are interested in weighting by domain polularity, you could join to httparchive.urls.20170315 and use the Alexa_domain field as a rank.

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Here’s an example of joining to that Alexa data: Getting domain rank with the new rank-less Chrome UX Report corpus

Topic		Replies	Views
React adoption over time Analysis	6	2677	September 2, 2020
Chapter 1. JavaScript 2019 Web Almanac	4	46279	December 6, 2019
Historical decline in WWW subdomain use? Analysis	6	1771	February 9, 2023
Segmenting HTTP Archive results by rank with CrUX Analysis	1	1661	April 20, 2021
Usage of Web Monetization 2019 vs 2020 Analysis	7	1769	November 22, 2021

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