Thirty years of comments in webpage source code

Source: https://blog.willmeye.rs/thirty-years-of-comments-in-webpage-source-cod/

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_27 Oct, 2026_

In your web browser, you can right-click and choose View Page Source to see the source code of any webpage you're on.

I grabbed the source of the homepages of 414 large websites, once a year from 1996 to 2026, and pulled out over 230,000 comments from source code. Here's some analysis on those developer comments.

I liked going through these comments and it will be interesting to see how comments look in another thirty years. You can go through them too here.