If you analyze most users' command line history files, cd and ls usually top the list. For example my laptop's top 10 shell commands:
1993 ls
1334 cd
445 g #alias for git
418 sudo
278 ssh
276 git
223 vim
215 rm
139 v #alias for vim
126 mv
The default behavior for most users is to ls right after cd to the point that I have a function cl that basicly duplicates this behavior.