[phil-pickering]

This is the one that Hixie published back in 2006. It helped guide a lot of the early decision-making in the WHATWG when it came to proposing new tags for HTML5 in a bid to reduce the number of div's out there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060203035414/http://code.googl...

The mantle has now been passed to the HTTP Archive, whose Web Almanac includes a section on the popularity of HTML elements:

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/markup#elements

BTW: I got 97, which is 96 more than the number of friends I have :)

[lucb1e]

> BTW: I got 97

Looked up your name plus the word 'w3'. I am not surprised to find involvement in an HTML spec discussion :D The top result on duckduckgo was <https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/1433#issuecomm...>.

[xnx]

That's it! Exactly what I was thinking of.