I am wondering how common JavaScript is. This article says that 73% of the sites they tested on rely on JavaScript for important functions, but it seems to me that the number should be greater. Have there been any polls on this topic?
Perhaps the best way to pose this question is whether there are sites that do not use JavaScript?
EDIT: “Use,” I do not necessarily mean “rely on important functionality” - it was just the statistics that one article gave.
EDIT: I wrote a script to check the 500 most visited sites according to alexa.com and see if they contain a tag <script>. Of the 483 sites that actually loaded, only 2 of them did not appear on the first page: craigslist.organd wikimedia.org. However, any pages on their first page used JavaScript. Is this a representative sample?
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