Status update: What content types are most popular?
A funny thing with open source is that we know very little about how it is being used or who uses it. Luckily, we do have H5P.com where there are thousands of organizations and millions of teachers using H5P so we can learn a bit from there.
Top 20 Content Types on H5P.com
Below is a table showing the content type distribution on H5P.com for the top 20 content types from the beginning of December 2022:
| # | Content Type | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Course Presentation | 13.84% |
| 2. | Interactive Video | 12.31% |
| 3. | Question Set | 9.82% |
| 4. | Drag and Drop | 5.94% |
| 5. | Drag the Words | 5.80% |
| 6. | Column | 5.19% |
| 7. | Multiple Choice | 5.10% |
| 8. | Fill in the Blanks | 4.69% |
| 9. | Interactive Book | 4.63% |
| 10. | Image Hotspots | 4.14% |
| 11. | Accordion | 4.00% |
| 12. | Dialog Cards | 2.88% |
| 13. | Audio | 2.00% |
| 14. | Documentation Tool | 1.80% |
| 15. | Memory Game | 1.71% |
| 16. | True/False Question | 1.53% |
| 17. | Flashcards | 1.36% |
| 18. | Single Choice Set | 1.23% |
| 19. | Image Slider | 1.03% |
| 20. | Branching Scenario | 1.00% |
The above table is for all content on H5P.com. I also had a look at content created in the period June - November last year.
Top 20 Content types June - November 2022 on H5P.com
The top 20 looks like this:
| # | Content Type | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Course Presentation | 12.80% |
| 2. | Interactive Video | 12.75% |
| 3. | Interactive Book | 9.25% |
| 4. | Question Set | 9.14% |
| 5. | Column | 6.51% |
| 6. | Drag and Drop | 4.53% |
| 7. | Multiple Choice | 4.49% |
| 8. | Drag the Words | 4.49% |
| 9. | Image Hotspots | 4.02% |
| 10. | Fill in the Blanks | 3.76% |
| 11. | Accordion | 3.37% |
| 12. | Audio | 2.85% |
| 13. | Dialog Cards | 2.69% |
| 14. | Documentation Tool | 2.00% |
| 15. | Crossword | 1.48% |
| 16. | Flashcards | 1.23% |
| 17. | Branching Scenario | 1.20% |
| 18. | Single Choice Set | 1.19% |
| 19. | True/False Question | 1.18% |
| 20. | Essay | 0.98% |
Personally I am very happy to see the increased usage of Interactive Book and Column. They are the "new" ways to build larger H5P content. With significant upcoming improvements I hope they will be the go-to for accessible, responsive, larger H5P content. Course Presentation will be focused on presentations and active surface content going forward.
Top 20 Sub Content Types on H5P.com
And here is a table showing the distribution of sub-content types (here a Multiple Choice used inside a Course Presentation counts, for instance):
| # | Content Type | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Text | 18.32% |
| 2. | Video | 14.91% |
| 3. | Image | 14.22% |
| 4. | Multiple Choice | 8.61% |
| 5. | Summary | 7.03% |
| 6. | True/False Question | 4.05% |
| 7. | Audio | 3.94% |
| 8. | Fill in the Blanks | 3.71% |
| 9. | Drag the Words | 2.70% |
| 10. | Single Choice Set | 2.41% |
| 11. | Column | 2.30% |
| 12. | Drag and Drop | 2.15% |
| 13. | Shapes | 1.83% |
| 14. | Link | 1.43% |
| 15. | Course Presentation | 1.31% |
| 16. | Text input field editor element | 1.06% |
| 17. | Standard page | 1.04% |
| 18. | Document Export Page | 0.85% |
| 19. | Interactive Video | 0.76% |
| 20. | Mark the Words | 0.66% |
Not surprisingly, when we include sub-content the most generic building blocks (text, video and images) make it to the top of the list.
Hopefully you found this data interesting. Maybe there are some of the top 20 content types that you or your organisation should try out more? And we will keep improving them and adding more :)
