What is the most used color on the Internet?

Paul Hebert is a graphic designer and web developer who was curious to know what the most popular colors on the Internet were (as in, which ones were most used by websites), so he used the website Alexa for it.

Said website has a list of the most visited sites on the Internet, so he wrote a PHP script to determine what colors these websites used and how they were distributed in the homepages of websites like Google, Facebook, Yahoo or Youtube.

Turns out that, as of September 18th 2016, the most used color on said websites is blue, followed by grey. Also, most of these are used in the hexadecimal format (hex code). Colors in images weren’t included and some of the colors found in the code aren’t actually used on the websites, but doesn’t it make sense? Facebook and Twitter, we are looking at you!

Learn more about his research on his website.