Introduction
This survey was conducted on the 3rd May 2000 and involved the fetching, parsing and analysis
of 1734 RSS files listed in xmlTree.com's OCS feed.
Results
HTTP Response Codes
| Status Code |
Number |
Percentage |
| 200 |
1609 |
93% |
| 403 |
1 |
0% |
| 404 |
87 |
5% |
| 500 |
36 |
2% |
| Other |
1 |
0% |
Relative Distributions of RSS files
| RSS Type |
Number |
Percentage |
| RSS 0.90 |
797 |
50% |
| RSS 0.91 |
743 |
46% |
| Other/Non RSS |
69 |
4% |
Parse Results
| RSS Type |
Number unparseable |
Percentage unparseable |
| RSS 0.90 |
47 |
6% |
| RSS 0.91 |
42 |
6% |
Element Usage
| RSS Type |
Element name |
Number using Element |
Percentage using Element |
| RSS 0.90 |
Image |
721 |
90% |
| RSS 0.90 |
TextInput |
10 |
1% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Image |
606 |
82% |
| RSS 0.91 |
TextInput |
99 |
13% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Language |
704 |
95% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Rating |
37 |
5% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Copyright |
103 |
14% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Docs |
2 |
0% |
| RSS 0.91 |
ManagingEditor |
114 |
15%) |
| RSS 0.91 |
LastBuildDate |
25 |
3% |
| RSS 0.91 |
Webmaster |
125 |
17% |
| RSS 0.91 |
SkipHours |
4 |
1% |
| RSS 0.91 |
SkipDays |
2 |
0% |
Average number of Items per File
| RSS Type |
Average No. of Items |
| RSS 0.90 |
9 |
| RSS 0.91 |
12 |
