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Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by AndyKelley »

adamseabrook wrote: post #9
wilfra wrote: post #8

That's awesome and I'm a big fan of Bootstrap and use it for nearly every new project. However I think 'powered' is taking things a bit far. Maybe 'styling' 1% of the web or 'powering the front-end' of 1% of the web. Wordpress uses the term 'powered' and that's fine because they actually do power a huge number of sites. That doesn't apply to most large sites running Bootstrap. Take Coinbase for example. They're still…

I did have "styled by" as the original headline. Bounced it off a few people who were not that sure what I meant so changed it to "powered by".

So you checked the headline with a few people who are not in your target audience?

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by jacques_chester »

orenbarzilai wrote: post #6
_sabe_ wrote: post #5

"I recently pulled a random selection of 10 websites from the sites I visit every day and found clear Twitter Bootstrap signatures on 0 of them."

They claim to have 1% of the web not 10 or more. Thus checking 10 specific websites is meaning less.

~1% of a large sample. I think that when N = 100 million you can make fairly strong claims, assuming non-systematic sample bias.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by adamseabrook »

mtarnovan wrote: post #13

1% of the indexed web, which might be less than 10% of the web at large (see for example here: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-web-does-Google-... )

The good thing about Bootstrap is that it is stamped on pretty much every page of a site. Our sample index was mainly front pages so it was easy to spot. Total size of the web is a very hard number to pin down. Verisign quote 252 million base domains worldwide across all TLD but we have some base domains in our index with over 1m sub domains.

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Post by orenbarzilai »

jacques_chester wrote: post #12
orenbarzilai wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They claim to have 1% of the web not 10 or more. Thus checking 10 specific websites is meaning less.

~1% of a large sample. I think that when N = 100 million you can make fairly strong claims, assuming non-systematic sample bias.

True. but 10 specific websites sample is still too small.

Regardless I think that the type of the website also matters to statistics. I guess that none of the top 100 in alexa uses bootstrap but I guess that more than 20% of the startups sites from the past year are using bootstrap.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by adamseabrook »

northwest wrote: post #16

It is encouraging to see that the world (both developers and "consumers") "invests" in open source projects. It means our resources are allocated in the most intelligent way.

I know it is not quantifiable but the effectively free marketing and goodwill that Twitter get from open sourcing Bootstrap must be worth many millions.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by simplyinfinity »

jacques_chester wrote: post #2

I sometimes use stuff because everyone else is using it. And then I wonder why I did that. I recently removed bootstrap from a website I have that is composed entirely of static HTML documents [1]. It's a teaser / marketing site for my current project. The sample sites looked nice and I figured that since I and CSS are of basically nodding acquaintance -- why not? I discovered that Bootstrap was just too featuresome…

Can i recommend Foundation by Zurb, it's like bootstrap but better IMHO. It allows you to download and use the parts you ned and nothing more.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

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Post by northwest »

adamseabrook wrote: post #17
northwest wrote: post #16

It is encouraging to see that the world (both developers and "consumers") "invests" in open source projects. It means our resources are allocated in the most intelligent way.

I know it is not quantifiable but the effectively free marketing and goodwill that Twitter get from open sourcing Bootstrap must be worth many millions.

That may very well be, but personally, I have no objection to this at all, b/c:

- supporting Twitter does not do any damage (unless you'd argue it's subject to the mass surveillance problem and should therefor be avoided)

- you're not being locked in, you can drop it at any time without any consequences

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