I visit hundreds of sites each week and I sometimes see a few websites that still use atrocious frames. But I didn’t know that the average number of websites using frames accross the Web was around 16% in 2006.
Security Space published a study called Technlogy Penetration Report that shows the penetration rate of a number of client side web technologies, including Javascript, CSS, or Frames. A more complete chart is available here.
The study was based on a sample of 1,358,991 web sites, so you can imagine that the numbers can be quite significant.
It’s interesting to see that 50% of all web sites now use CSS for their design, but it’s still very sad to read that 16% of web sites still use frames. I guess this just shows that many people still need to be educated if they want to make a good use of the search engines to get traffic.
Source: ZDnet’s Web 2.0 Explorer Blog
Why not?
Sometimes using frames would be useful and make sense.
They are still part of the standard, so I don’t think people should be “educated” against using them.
Is like saying that is sad that there are people using bikes, sometimes it’s just more convenient.
Left by Josep Valls on January 23rd, 2009
I think making use of frames in a site may cause errors.
Left by Chicago movers on August 19th, 2010