Most popular website colors are Black, Red, Blue and ... Tan?

Hey,

This is the creator, Paul Hebert here. Thanks for sharing this!

Unfortunately, I believe the prevalence of tan can be largely associated with a bug that I haven’t worked out yet. If tan is found in the text of the home page it is counted, even if it’s part of a larger word.

For example the phrase ‘I understand’ includes tan so it gets counted. Here’s a full list of known caveats that I’m working to address: http://paulhebertdesigns.com/web_colors/caveats.php

Thanks for all the interest!

EDIT: Oh by the way, the site also doesn’t pull colors out of images, so it only counts CSS colors in the code. I hope to add image scraping soon!

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