I think w3schools should still be ranked highly. MDN seems better organized for people who understand how web development works and just need good reference, bu

I think w3schools should still be ranked highly. MDN seems better organized for people who understand how web development works and just need good reference, but there are a lot of people, possibly many more than there are skilled developers, who don't understand web development but need to make something anyway. Anecdotally, I watched someone learn front-end web development from scratch last year with a ton of googling. This person didn't understand the concepts at all (still doesn't) but w3schools seemed to help them the most to keep going and get their app made. I suggested MDN but they found it to be confusing, not even in the "I'm not ready for this yet" sense, but in the "yeah this doesn't answer the question" sense. It did answer the question and they would've been greatly helped by taking the content seriously, but they were still far from knowing what they didn't know. I have to respect that kind of user needs to use google, too.