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The Top Formats
• 82.09% HTML
• 99.82% in just 20 formats
• The ‘unknown format’ is 19th
– Those 5,015 extensions
• Flash stands out
MIME Type # Resources
text/html 1,995,507,185
application/xhtml+xml 840,627,471
image/jpeg 242,764,847
text/plain 150,670,343
image/gif 133,610,487
application/pdf 23,965,322
image/png 19,865,229
application/rss+xml 11,528,135
application/x-empty 8,551,502
application/xml 6,387,147
application/x-shockwave-flash 3,835,244
application/msword 3,720,032
application/atom+xml 1,381,932
image/vnd.microsoft.icon 1,305,558
application/vnd.ms-excel 1,201,725
application/gzip 988,491
application/zip 948,112
audio/mpeg 751,160
application/octet-stream 598,836
application/rdf+xml 511,301