Matt Cutts stated a very interesting comment on twitter a couple of weeks ago and it goes something like this:

“Only 4% of web pages comply w/standards: http://bit.ly/2BJMnZ . That’s why Google can’t return only those pages; too few of them. ( “

You can view that quote here.

I have been thinking about that lately and wanted to put my thoughts in a blog post. My first thought is, it’s quite pathetic to only have 4%, excuse me, 4.13% of the web complying with web standards.

My second thought is, should search engines reward websites that comply with web standards? I think with their efforts and compliance with the web their should be some sort incentive. But, what could you reward these websites with? Well, my thought is to have a weighted value on web compliance in the search engines algorithms. I would love to hear what others think so be sure to leave a comment!