I touched briefly on a previous post of mine called “Choosing a Website Designer - Ten Tips” that websites should pass some basic website checks known as “W3C validation”. What was the reason again I hear you asking. Well, in a nutshell it helps you create a rich accessible website that substantially limits the amount of people who may not be viewing your website as you intended in their Internet browser.
Anyway, I am now going to give you some statistics on Web Standards. So, here they are:
Opera’s MAMA project found that just 4.13 percent of 3 million websites passed W3C validation.
That sounds bad right? Well, according to the statistics it is a big improvement over the 2001 Parnas study:
The 2001 Parnas study reported that 0.71 percent of websites passed W3C validation.
And the last statistic is:
The 2006 Sarsoo study reported that 2.56 percent of websites passed W3C validation.
At least we are going in the right direction I guess.
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