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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)442
html, conformance, quality, craft
AI Accelerates Output, Not Innovation441
ai
Resource Age and Its Impact on Cacheability (pau)440
caching, performance, http-headers, http
Django Developers Survey 2026 Results (jet)439
surveys, django
Is There a Relationship Between Cycle Time and PR Throughput?438
productivity, engineering-management
US Lead in the AI Race With China Is Rapidly Narrowing (luz+)437
ai, openai, anthropic, moonshot-ai
What Is the Purpose of Software (dtl)436
programming, economics
What Are Code Reviews Even For?435
code-reviews, ai
TypeScript 7 Went Native: What Actually Changes and What Doesn’t434
typescript, performance
The Unexpected Things Developer Metrics Can Measure433
developer-experience
State of CSS 2026 [Results] (sac/dev)432
surveys, css
Where Did the Old Web Go? We Followed 657,607 Links to Find Out431
web, link-rot
Claude Opus 5: The New Leader in Agentic Knowledge Work430
claude, ai
Your Agentic Workflow’s Cache Keepalive Costs 8× Too Much (v2: The Interval Frontier) (mem)429
ai-agents, ai, caching, economics, link-lists
The State of AI Impact in Engineering: Q2 2026428
ai, quality, developer-experience, economics, engineering-management
What Just Happened to TheNumbers.com Should Worry Us All (ste)427
ai, bots, scraping, traffic
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: Halving Time per Task426
gemini, ai, comparisons
New Research: The Core Web Vitals Thresholds You Trust Might Be Wrong for Your Site (tam)425
web-vitals, performance
The AI Productivity Gap424
ai, productivity, efficiency
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 (jed)423
webassembly, runtimes, performance, comparisons
How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage (kev/tan)422
tanstack, refactoring, memory, case-studies
AI-Authored Code Has Nearly Doubled, but So Has PR Size421
ai, code-reviews
How Cloudflare Became Too Important to Fail (hac)420
cloudflare, infrastructure
When AI Builds Itself419
ai, processes, quality, efficiency, anthropic, case-studies
8 Myths on Software Engineering and AI418
ai, programming, productivity, studies, research, myths
AI-Generated Accessibility, an Update—Frontier Models Still Fail, but Skills Change the Game (mfa)417
accessibility, ai
State of AI 2026 [Results] (sac/dev)416
surveys, ai
Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey (mno)415
syndication, rss, atom, studies, research
The Mismeasure of Open Source (and)414
foss, github, economics
Weekend at Bernie’s (and)413
dependencies, security, foss
AI Productivity Gains: More Modest Than Expected412
interviews, ai, productivity, studies, research
How Reliable Is AI at Finding UI Problems?411
ai, usability, design, studies, research
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet (saw+)410
ai, web, studies, research
What I Learned From Analyzing 158 Design Systems409
design-systems, comparisons
Why It’s Getting Harder to Measure AI Performance408
ai
AI-Generated Merged Code Holds Steady at ~30%407
ai
This, Still Not for Everyone (mat)406
accessibility, homepages, webaim
The WebAIM Million: The 2026 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages (web)405
studies, research, accessibility, homepages
Best CI/CD Tools for 2026: What the Data Actually Shows (ovb/jet)404
ci-cd, tooling
React SSR Framework Showdown: TanStack Start, React Router, and Next.js Under Load (mco/pla)403
frameworks, server-side-rendering, react, tanstack, react-router, nextjs, comparisons, performance
GitHub Copilot’s Effect on Collaboration Has Stunned Researchers402
studies, research, ai, github-copilot, github, productivity
So Where Are All the AI Apps? (alg+)401
ai, dependencies, python
AI Productivity Gains Are 10%, Not 10×400
ai, productivity, studies, research
Do AI-Enabled Companies Need Fewer People? (sel)399
ai, hiring, economics, link-lists
Labor Market Impacts of AI: A New Measure and Early Evidence398
ai, studies, research
AI Is Locking People Out—at Scale (kc)397
accessibility, ai, studies, research
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs. GPT-5: The 2026 Developer Benchmark396
claude, openai, ai, comparisons, programming, documentation
We Cut Node.js’ Memory in Half (mco/pla)395
nodejs, v8, javascript, memory
Europe Is Ready to Ditch US Tech for Private Alternatives (pro)394
tooling, privacy, security
We Scanned 250 Node.js Repos for Blocking I/O: 76% Had It—and the Benchmarks Explain Why That Matters393
nodejs, file-handling, performance
State of React 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)392
surveys, react
ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190× More Traffic to Websites (ahr)391
traffic, search, chatgpt, google
The CSS Selection (ven/pro)390
css, studies, research
Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence (stu/web)389
interoperability, web-platform, browsers, retrospectives
Measuring SVG Rendering Time (sto)388
svg, png, images, rendering, performance, web-vitals
Minifier Benchmarks (j9t)387
minification, tooling, comparisons, swc, html-minifier, htmlnano
State of JavaScript 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)386
surveys, javascript
What Is JPEG XL: Do We Really Need Another Image Format? (aar/deb)385
jpeg-xl, images, quality, performance
How Web Performance Impacts User Experience (mat/deb)384
performance, user-experience, web-vitals
Node.js 16 to 25 Performance Benchmarks383
nodejs, performance, comparisons
Vercel vs. Netlify vs. Cloudflare: Serverless Cold Starts Compared382
vercel, netlify, cloudflare, serverless, comparisons
Security (vik+/htt)381
web-almanac, studies, research, security, tls, certificates, cookies, csp, http-headers, apis, sanitization, configuration
CMS (htt)380
web-almanac, studies, research, content-management, tooling, wordpress, user-experience, performance, web-vitals, lighthouse, apis
Ecommerce (htt)379
web-almanac, studies, research, ecommerce, tooling, performance, web-vitals, lighthouse
PWA (htt)378
web-almanac, studies, research, progressive-web-apps, web-apps, web-workers
Cookies (htt)377
web-almanac, studies, research, cookies
SEO (htt)376
web-almanac, studies, research, seo, robotstxt, llmstxt, links, content, structured-data, amp, html, internationalization
CDN (htt)375
web-almanac, studies, research, content-delivery, http, performance, http-headers, compression, tls, hints
WebAssembly (htt)374
web-almanac, studies, research, webassembly
Generative AI (chr+/htt)373
web-almanac, studies, research, ai, robotstxt, llmstxt
Privacy (htt)372
web-almanac, studies, research, privacy, legal, consent-management, do-not-track
Accessibility (bog+/htt)371
web-almanac, studies, research, accessibility, colors, contrast, zooming, scaling, internationalization, keyboard-navigation, skip-links, forms, labels, placeholders, multimedia, images, aria, overlays, ai
Third Parties (htt)370
web-almanac, studies, research, embed-code
Performance (25p+/htt)369
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, web-vitals, hints, speculation
Fonts (htt)368
web-almanac, studies, research, fonts, performance, css
Page Weight (bar+/htt)367
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, web-vitals, lighthouse
The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs (sli/per)366
performance, single-page-apps, javascript, frameworks
Third Parties and Single Points of Failure (pau/per)365
performance, embed-code
State of HTML 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)364
surveys, html
Why We Should Stop Talking Performance Metrics to Business Leaders (san/per)363
performance, communication, business-relations
The Inconvenient Truth: How Web Performance Case Studies Undermine Our Relationship With Business (mac/per)362
performance, economics
Comparing HTML Minifiers (j9t)361
html, minification, tooling, html-minifier, htmlnano, comparisons
Accessible by Design: The Role of the “lang” Attribute (col/mat)360
accessibility, internationalization, html, attributes
Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web (per)359
performance, html
How Fast Can Browsers Process Base64 Data? (lem)358
performance, encoding, base64, browsers, comparisons
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (sli)357
performance, javascript
Do Newer AI-Native IDEs Outperform Other AI Coding Assistants? (lau)356
ai, code-editors, efficiency, comparisons
Who Rules AI Search? What 3 Months of AI Visibility Data Tells Us (sem)355
search, ai, domains
Octoverse: A New Developer Joins GitHub Every Second as AI Leads TypeScript to #1354
github, productivity, ai, foss, security, programming
The State of Django 2025 (wsv/jet)353
surveys, django
Your Accessibility Score Is Lying to You352
accessibility, testing
16 Charts That Explain the AI Boom (bin)351
ai, economics, openai, anthropic, facebook+meta, oracle, google, microsoft, aws
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)350
ai, search, backlinks, links
State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 (jet)349
surveys
Dead Framework Theory (pau)348
frameworks, react
RGESN Statements: The Clash of Words, the Weight of Measures347
sustainability, studies, research
What the 2025 DORA Report Means for Your AI Strategy (lau)346
dev-ops, ai, strategies, processes, engineering-management
The History of Core Web Vitals (add)345
web-vitals, performance, user-experience, history
Are Your Retail Landing Pages Killing Conversions? (tam/spe)344
landing-pages, user-conversion, performance
How Tech Companies Measure the Impact of AI on Software Development (ger+)343
ai, productivity, github, google, atlassian, economics
2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)342
html, conformance, quality, craft
From McCabe to Essential Complexity341
programming, quality, complexity
The State of Python 2025 [Results] (mke/jet)340
surveys, python
State of CSS 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)339
surveys, css
HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML (unc)338
html, css, dom, standards
Framework Benchmarks (lis)337
websites, frameworks, react, angular, svelte, preact, solidjs, qwik, vuejs, jquery, alpinejs, lit, comparisons
Design System Deviation Is a Signal (ben)336
design-systems, design
What Is Bot Detection: Tools, Techniques, and Ways to Prevent Against Bot Attacks335
bots, bot-detection, techniques, link-lists
Software Engineering With LLMs in 2025: Reality Check (ger)334
ai, tooling, programming
State of Devs 2025 Survey: Maybe Don’t Call Yourself a Frontend Developer? (sac)333
career, comparisons
Serialization From Node.js332
nodejs, performance, comparisons, libraries
Design Systems of the Future (ben)331
design-systems, outlooks
Setting Targets for Developer Productivity Metrics (lau)330
principles, productivity
Data vs. Findings vs. Insights in UX (vit/sma)329
user-experience, terminology, comparisons
How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility (ste)328
how-tos, accessibility, advocacy
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? (ahr)327
google, search, seo
How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance? (j9t)326
html, conformance
AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker325
websites, ai, accessibility, economics
The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding (fre)324
ai, vibe-coding, economics, tips-and-tricks
95% of Homepages Are Inaccessible323
homepages, wcag, accessibility
Automated Accessibility Test Tools Find Even Less Than Expected322
accessibility, testing, automation
Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers321
json, libraries, performance, comparisons
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahr)320
ai, search, google, seo
State of AI 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)319
surveys, ai
State of AI [Results]318
surveys, ai
Why You Need to Know Your Site’s Performance Plateau (and How to Find It) (tam/spe)317
performance, concepts
Zero-Config Debugging With Deno and OpenTelemetry (lca/den)316
debugging, deno, opentelemetry, logging, tracing, observability
How to Select a UX Metric315
how-tos, user-experience, best-practices
WebAIM Million Results Show That Shopping Sites Have Worst Accessibility (cer)314
webaim, accessibility, ecommerce
The WebAIM Million: The 2025 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages (web)313
studies, research, accessibility, homepages
Web Accessibility Requirements in the EU (mar)312
accessibility, eaa, legal, compliance, history
State of Vue.js Report 2025311
surveys, vuejs, frameworks
How WebAssembly Crushes Technical Debt310
webassembly, technical-debt
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years (moz)309
google, search, content, seo
Design Systems Report 2025 (zer)308
surveys, studies, research, design-systems
How to Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis (mat/sma)307
how-tos, performance, web-vitals
UX Analytics: How to Measure Your User Experience the Right Way (uxm)306
how-tos, user-experience, accessibility, performance, tooling
JavaScript (htt)305
web-almanac, studies, research, javascript, performance, bundling, transpiling, web-workers, libraries, web-components
2024 Web Almanac: Uncovering Global Accessibility Insights With axe (mgi/deq)304
videos, accessibility, web-almanac, studies, research, axe
State of React 2024 [Results] (sac+/dev)303
surveys, react
63% of Websites Receive AI Traffic (New Study of 3,000 Sites) (lou/ahr)302
traffic, ai
DORA, SPACE, DevEx, DX Core 4 (j9t)301
engineering-management, productivity, culture
The State of PHP 2024 [Results] (jet)300
surveys, php, laravel, wordpress, symfony, phpstorm, vs-code, sublime-text, code-editors
Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True (ahr)299
google, links, seo
Page Bloat Update: How Does Ever-Increasing Page Size Affect Your Business and Your Users? (tam/spe)298
performance, trends, javascript, images, desktop, mobile
9 Design System Metrics That Matter297
design-systems, user-experience, consistency, accessibility, maintenance, documentation, economics
Initial Load Performance for React Developers: Investigative Deep Dive (ade)296
deep-dives, performance, react, web-vitals
Refactoring a Web Performance Snippet for Security and Best Practice (the)295
performance, javascript, refactoring
You Don’t Need Next.js294
migrating, nextjs, react
Page Weight (dws+/htt)293
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, storage, web-vitals
Media (ste+/htt)292
web-almanac, studies, research, multimedia, images, html
Why Metrics Cannot Measure Software Development291
programming, efficiency, productivity
My Favorite Web Performance Graphs of the Year (fab/per)290
performance, visualization
Correlation or Causation: How Web Performance Proves Its Value (per)289
performance, testing
Unattributed Navigation Overhead (UNO) (tim/per)288
performance
State of JavaScript 2024 [Results] (sac/dev)287
surveys, javascript
When Users Interact (blu/per)286
performance, user-experience, link-lists
State of Node.js Performance 2024 (raf/nod)285
nodejs, performance
HTTP (pro/htt)284
web-almanac, studies, research, http, protocols, hints, apis
Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year in Review283
retrospectives, web, web-platform, comparisons, traffic, ip, http, embed-code, browsers
Privacy (max/htt)282
web-almanac, studies, research, privacy, apis
SEO (jam+/htt)281
web-almanac, studies, research, seo, robotstxt, metadata, structured-data, amp, internationalization
Goodhart’s Law in Action: 3 Webperf Examples (nom/per)280
performance, principles, lighthouse, web-vitals, examples
Designing (and Evolving) a New Web Performance Score (css)279
performance
State of Software Architecture Report—2024278
architecture
Doing the Numbers: Digital Accessibility and Shifting Left (deq)277
accessibility, processes, economics
Why We Need to Have a Change of HEART With UX Metrics276
user-experience, product-management
Third Parties (htt)275
web-almanac, studies, research, embed-code, monetization, analytics, content-delivery, hosting, marketing, social-media, tag-management, multimedia, consent-management
State of HTML 2024 [Results] (sac/dev)274
surveys, html
Accessibility (mgi/htt)273
web-almanac, studies, research, accessibility
CDN (htt)272
web-almanac, studies, research, content-delivery
Ecommerce (htt)271
web-almanac, studies, research, economics, ecommerce
Fonts (bra/htt)270
web-almanac, studies, research, fonts
Jamstack (mik/htt)269
web-almanac, studies, research, jamstack, tech-stacks
Markup (gua/htt)268
web-almanac, studies, research, html
Cookies (htt)267
web-almanac, studies, research, content-delivery
Structured Data (htt)266
web-almanac, studies, research, structured-data, semantic-web
CMS (htt)265
web-almanac, studies, research, content-management
Sustainability (htt)264
web-almanac, studies, research, sustainability
Performance (htt)263
web-almanac, studies, research, performance
Security (vik/htt)262
web-almanac, studies, research, security
2024 DORA Report (lau)261
research, productivity, ai, developer-experience
Open Source Survey 2024 [Results]260
surveys, foss, comparisons
Calculating the ROI of Your Design System (lur/zer)259
design-systems, economics
State of CSS 2024 [Results] (sac/dev)258
surveys, css
The Greatness and Limitations of the “js-framework-benchmark” (nol)257
javascript, frameworks, tooling, performance
Node vs. Bun: No Backend Performance Difference256
nodejs, bun, comparisons, performance
2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)255
html, conformance, quality, craft
The Helpful Content Update Was Not What You Think (moz)254
seo, google
Common Misconceptions About How to Optimize LCP253
performance, web-vitals, optimization
Reckoning: The Way Out (sli)252
javascript, performance, hiring
5 Questions for Tammy Everts (tam+/fro)251
interviews, performance, user-experience, economics
Reckoning: Object Lesson (sli)250
javascript, performance
Reckoning: The Landscape (sli)249
javascript, performance, mobile
Nike’s $25B Blunder Shows Us the Limits of “Data-Driven” (pav)248
product-management
AI Crawlers Need to Be More Respectful (eri/rea)247
ai, crawling, traffic
State of React 2023 [Results] (sac/dev)246
surveys, react
Meaningful Ways to Measure Website Success (web)245
economics
Measuring Developer Experience at Google244
research, developer-experience, google
State of JavaScript 2023 [Results] (sac+/dev)243
surveys, javascript
Tracking the Impact of Our Content Design Work242
content, design
Node.js Is Here to Stay (mco/pla)241
nodejs
Building an Instinct for Metrics (cwo)240
UI Density239
design, information-design
State of HTML 2023 [Results] (sac+/dev)238
surveys, html
Evidence-Based Management Guide, 2024—What’s New?237
release-notes, guides, agile, processes, engineering-management
Latency Numbers Every Frontend Developer Should Know (ind)236
performance, terminology
Humans Do It Better: GitClear Analyzes 153M Lines of Code, Finds Risks of AI235
ai, quality, craft, engineering-management
The Future of Design Systems Is Marketing (fig)234
design-systems, marketing
DORA’s Software Delivery Metrics: The Four Keys (nat)233
processes
The WebAIM Million: The 2024 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages (web)232
studies, research, accessibility, homepages
How I Fixed My Brutal TTFB (whi/get)231
performance, optimization
How Web Bloat Impacts Users With Slow Devices230
performance, comparisons, web
Announcing Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness229
performance, tooling
How to Ensure Your Designs Work if You Can’t Access Sample Data228
how-tos, design, usability, testing
When We Talk About Front-End Performance, What Are We Talking About227
performance, web-vitals, lighthouse
VPS Showdown—March 2024—DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr226
servers, hosting, comparisons
The Faster Lambda Runtime—Node.js or LLRT? We Benchmarked225
lambda, javascript, runtimes, nodejs, comparisons
Team Productivity Metrics for Engineering Managers224
productivity, engineering-management
What Is Lighthouse Speed Index (SI) and How to Reduce It223
performance, lighthouse
Lines of Code—How to Not Measure Code Quality and Developer Efficiency (cod)222
quality, efficiency, productivity
Interaction to Next Paint Becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12 (mal+)221
performance, web-vitals
Why I Don’t Care About Website/Blog Stats (nei)220
blogging, sem
Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples (ger)219
productivity, developer-experience, google, microsoft
The Evolution of Page Speed (mat/deb)218
videos, performance, optimization, history
Applying the SPACE Framework (lau)217
productivity
Accessibility Overlays (eu)216
accessibility, overlays
Insights: Mobile Accessibility215
accessibility, research, mobile
The Importance of User Feedback and Data in UX Design (uxm)214
user-experience
Measure LCP Sub-Parts to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (mat/deb)213
performance, web-vitals
Design Systems Metrics—What I Have Learned Leading the [Design System] of the Biggest Edtech in Latin America212
design-systems, lessons
Node.js Monthly Downloads (mco)211
websites, nodejs
A Faster Web in 2024 (rvi)210
performance, web-vitals, web
Why We Need a “Green” Perf Metric (scr/per)209
videos, sustainability, performance
How Core Web Vitals Saved Users 10,000 Years of Waiting for Web Pages to Load (add+)208
google, performance, user-experience
How Miro Migrated Its Analytics Event Tracking System207
analytics, monitoring, migrating
How Bear Does Analytics With CSS206
analytics, css, case-studies
2023: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)205
html, css, conformance, quality
Liquid vs. Headless: A Look at Real User Web Performance (sia)204
shopify, headless, performance, comparisons
The Illusion of Developer “Productivity” Opens the Door to Snake Oil203
productivity
Experimenting With Measuring Soft Navigations (tun)202
performance, web-vitals, navigation, experiments
From Data-Driven to Decision-Driven201
strategies, product-management
Essential Metrics for Click Testing200
user-experience, testing
On Productivity Metrics and Management Consultants (nor)199
productivity
Measuring Developer Productivity? A Response to McKinsey (ger+)198
productivity
State of CSS 2023 [Results] (sac+/dev)197
surveys, css
How Google Measures Developer Productivity196
interviews, google, productivity, developer-experience
Data-Driven Design: The Rise of Big Data in UX (uxm)195
design, user-experience
Origin Trials and Tribulations (rvi)194
web-platform, browsers, origin-trials
What Is Page Bloat? And How Is It Hurting Your Business, Your Search Rank, and Your Users? (tam/spe)193
performance, user-experience, user-conversion, economics
How to Measure the Impact of a Design System?192
how-tos, design-systems
Why You Must Commit to Grounding Every DEI-Related Effort With Data191
interviews, dei, processes
Feature Management and Feature Experimentation, Why You Should Do Both—How It Helps Both Product and Software Engineering Teams190
feature-management, experiments, testing
No Single Metric Captures Productivity189
productivity
S.P.A.C.E. Framework—the Ultimate Framework for Measuring Your Tech Team Productivity188
productivity, engineering-management, culture, communication, collaboration, efficiency
10 Ways to Boost Your Landing Page Conversion Rates (uxm)187
landing-pages, user-conversion
Measuring Design System “Adoption” (pjo)186
design-systems
A New Approach to Measuring Developer Productivity185
research, productivity
Improving Web-Site Conversion Rates Through Better UX Design (uxm)184
user-conversion, optimization, user-experience
Pay Attention to Web Performance Metrics to Improve the UX (uxm)183
performance, user-experience, web-vitals, optimization
DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity (acm)182
developer-experience, productivity
A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets (spe)181
guides, performance, performance-budgets
A/B Testing: A Primer180
introductions, a-b-testing, optimization
Design Debt: The Hidden Cost of Neglecting UX Investment, and How to Measure and Manage It179
design-debt, user-experience, economics
You Are What You Measure178
videos
The Performance Golden Rule Revisited (tka)177
performance
Establishing Metrics for Accessibility ROI (kar)176
accessibility, economics
So, How Can We Measure UX?175
user-experience
The WebAIM Million (web)174
studies, research, accessibility
The Case Against Cycle Time173
productivity
The State of JavaScript 2022 [Results] (sac/dev)172
surveys, javascript
Measuring an Engineering Organization (let)171
leadership, engineering-management
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023 (sli)170
performance, javascript
The State of CSS 2022 [Results] (sac+/dev)169
surveys, css
7 Website Performance Metrics to Track for Better UX (cal)168
performance, user-experience
Counting Unique Visitors Without Using Cookies, UIDs, or Fingerprinting167
privacy, fingerprinting
Minification and Cache Directives for the Most Popular Websites of the Internet (dvk)166
minification, tooling, lightning-css, html-minifier, caching, performance
Using Data-Driven Analytics to Improve Your Site’s User Experience (uxm)165
user-experience, analytics
npm ESM vs. CJS (woo)164
npm, esm, commonjs, comparisons
Performance (rvi/htt)163
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, web-vitals
Structured Data (htt)162
web-almanac, studies, research, structured-data, semantics, semantic-web
CDN (htt)161
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, content-delivery, tooling
HTML 2022: 20 Additional Observations From Analyzing the Web Almanac Data (j9t)160
html, web-almanac
WordPress.org Plugin Developers Demand Transparency Regarding the Removal of Active Install Growth Data (sar)159
wordpress, plugins
CSS (rac/htt)158
web-almanac, studies, research, css
Fonts (htt)157
web-almanac, studies, research, fonts
HTTP (htt)156
web-almanac, studies, research, http, protocols
Interoperability (bka/htt)155
web-almanac, studies, research, interoperability
Markup (j9t/htt)154
web-almanac, studies, research, html
Media (htt)153
web-almanac, studies, research, multimedia, images
Security (htt)152
web-almanac, studies, research, security
Accessibility (htt)151
web-almanac, studies, research, accessibility
JavaScript (mal/htt)150
web-almanac, studies, research, javascript
Sustainability (htt)149
web-almanac, studies, research, sustainability
SEO (htt)148
web-almanac, studies, research, seo
Page Weight (jam/htt)147
web-almanac, studies, research, performance
CMS (htt)146
web-almanac, studies, research, content-management
Element Timing: One True Metric to Rule Them All? (spe)145
performance, time, apis
Why Are Vanity Metrics Still Problematic?144
2022: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)143
html, css, conformance, quality, craft
Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven142
processes
Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence (css)141
performance, optimization
What Does x% of Issues Mean? (aar)140
accessibility
GA4 Is Being Blocked by Content Security Policy139
security, csp, google
Style Scoping Versus Shadow DOM: Which Is Fastest? (nol)138
selectors, scope, dom, shadow-dom, performance, comparisons
What We’ve Learned From One Year of Real User Monitoring Data on GOV.UK137
performance, monitoring
The Importance of Organizational Leadership in Developing an Accessibility Culture: Buy-In, Metrics, and Structure136
interviews, accessibility, leadership, culture
Rethinking Server-Timing as a Critical Monitoring Tool (sma)135
performance, time, http, monitoring
How to Use Google CrUX to Analyze and Compare the Performance of JS Frameworks (sma)134
how-tos, performance, google, javascript, frameworks
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World’s Second Most Popular Desktop Browser133
browsers, desktop, microsoft, edge, safari, comparisons
Server-Side vs. Client-Side Analytics (dav)132
analytics, comparisons
A Guide to Task-Based UX Metrics131
guides, user-experience
Is Measuring Speed a Useful Metric for Design Systems? (amy+)130
videos, performance, design-systems
Evaluating Design System Adoption Using Custom CSS129
design-systems, css, custom-properties
Core Web Vitals: Finding Common Ground Between SEOs and Developers (moz)128
performance, web-vitals, seo
A New Statistical Approach for Predicting Usability Problems127
studies, research, usability
The WebAIM Million: The 2022 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages (web)126
studies, research, accessibility, homepages
Design Mistakes That Hurt Your Web Site’s Conversion Rates (uxm)125
design, user-experience, user-conversion, mistakes
The State of JavaScript 2021 [Results] (sac/dev)124
surveys, javascript
Speed Matters, but It Isn’t Everything123
performance, user-experience
Accessibility Data Is Not the Enemy (gar)122
accessibility
How to Measure Your Design System? (zer)121
how-tos, design-systems
Using Diagnostic Metrics (per)120
performance
Web Performance, Core Web Vitals, and Vanity Metrics (per)119
performance, web-vitals
Hands On With the New Responsiveness Metrics (per)118
performance, responsive-design
The State of CSS 2021 [Results] (sac/dev)117
surveys, css
Markup (htt)116
web-almanac, studies, research, html
HTTP (htt)115
web-almanac, studies, research, http, protocols
Page Weight (htt)114
web-almanac, studies, research, performance
Accessibility (htt)113
web-almanac, studies, research, accessibility
Security (htt)112
web-almanac, studies, research, security
CSS (mey/htt)111
web-almanac, studies, research, css
JavaScript (htt)110
web-almanac, studies, research, javascript
Performance (sia/htt)109
web-almanac, studies, research, performance, user-experience
Web Performance Metrics Cheatsheet (ire)108
performance, cheat-sheets
What Are the Web Performance Metrics That Actually Matter? (cfe)107
performance
Measuring Developer Relations (swy)106
developer-relations, advocacy
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021 (jet)105
surveys
2021: 98% of the Top 100 US Websites Use Invalid HTML (j9t)104
html, css, conformance, quality, craft
Everything You Need to Know About A/B Testing103
a-b-testing, optimization
An Introduction to Performance Budgets102
introductions, performance, performance-budgets
The SPACE of Developer Productivity (nic+/acm)101
productivity
JavaScript (tka/htt)100
web-almanac, studies, research, javascript
Page Weight (htt)99
web-almanac, studies, research, performance
CSS (lea+/htt)98
web-almanac, studies, research, css
Accessibility (htt)97
web-almanac, studies, research, accessibility
Markup (j9t+/htt)96
web-almanac, studies, research, html
JS Minification Benchmarks95
javascript, minification
[JavaScript] Minification Benchmarks (hir)94
minification, tooling, comparisons, javascript, oxc, swc, bun, esbuild
Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting93
introductions, monitoring, alerting
The Recruitment Confusion Matrix and Your Right to Be Wrong92
hiring
We Need More Inclusive Web Performance Metrics (sco)91
performance, dei
Core Web Vitals (chr/css)90
performance, web-vitals
Developer Experience Metrics89
developer-experience
Introducing Web Vitals: Essential Metrics for a Healthy Site88
introductions, web-vitals, performance
The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks (tka)87
javascript, frameworks, performance, jquery, vuejs, angular, react
Start Render: The Web Performance Metric That Heralds the End of the Blank Page86
performance, web-vitals
The Most Critical Python Code Metric85
python, quality, principles
Ruby vs. Ruby on Rails: Same or Different?84
ruby, ruby-on-rails, terminology, comparisons
What CMS to Use for Optimale TTFB (and Site Speed?) (erw)83
content-management, performance, wp-engine, automattic
CSS Selectors in Go82
css, selectors, go, parsing
DORA’s Journey: An Exploration81
dev-ops, productivity
The TypeScript Tax (eri)80
typescript, type-safety, quality
Performance Budgets 10179
introductions, performance, performance-budgets
How Do You Know Your Website Is a Success? (sma)78
product-management, strategies, user-experience, content, microcontent, navigation, performance, testing
How Fast Is AMP Really? (tka)77
amp, performance
How Declaration Repetition Developed Over Time, a Statistically Insignificant Sample (j9t)76
css, maintainability, history
The Browser Statistics That Matter (chr/css)75
browsers, caniuse
70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization (j9t)74
css, optimization, efficiency, maintainability
The RED Method: Key Metrics for Microservices Architecture73
microservices, architecture, monitoring
Think You Know the Top Web Browsers? (pet)72
browsers, chrome, firefox, safari, internet-explorer, opera, uc-browser
PWA Stats (clo)71
websites, web-apps, progressive-web-apps, case-studies
The Web, Worldwide (tka)70
websites, performance
Random Interesting Facts on HTML/SVG Usage (cat/css)69
html, svg, amp, accessibility
Web Accessibility in the UK—True Facts (abr)68
accessibility
Browser Trends November 2016: Rise of the Underdog (cra)67
browsers, trends
5 Information Architecture Warning Signs in Your Analytics Reports (nng)66
information-architecture, analytics
5 Key Ways to Improve Engagement Metrics for Your Content65
content, content-strategy, seo
Why We Should All Be Data Literate (ali)64
career, link-lists
Webfonts on the Prairie (ali)63
fonts
Critical Metric: Critical Resources62
performance, css, javascript
Critical Web Fonts (zac)61
fonts, css, flash-of-x, critical-path, performance
The Cost of Frameworks (aer)60
frameworks, efficiency
Introducing RAIL: A User-Centric Model for Performance (pau/sma)59
introductions, performance, user-experience
React + Performance = ? (aer)58
react, performance
Page Bloat Update: The Average Web Page Is More Than 2 MB in Size (tam)57
performance, comparisons
Counting Chromia (ppk)56
chromium, browsers, mobile, google
Browser Trends December 2014: Safari Survival? (cra)55
browsers, trends, safari, desktop, mobile
Performance Budget Metrics (tka)54
performance-budgets, performance
CSS-Only Solution for UI Tracking (sma)53
css, analytics, google
JS Parse and Execution Time (tka)52
javascript, parsing, performance
Is Your Responsive Design Working? Google Analytics Will Tell You (sma)51
responsive-design, analytics, google
Myth Busting: CSS Animations vs. JavaScript (css)50
animations, css, javascript, comparisons, myths, gsap
Best PHP Frameworks for 2014 (swa)49
php, frameworks, laravel, symfony
The Rise of Web Bots and Fall in Human Traffic (cra)48
web, bots, scraping, spam, traffic
What’s the Problem With Mobile HTML5? (inf)47
html, mobile, native
Why We Need Responsive Images (tka)46
images, responsive-design, performance
Selling Social in 201345
social-media, economics
Web Developer Economics: The Wrapup (chr/css)44
career, economics
Web Performance: When Millisecond Resolution Just Isn’t Enough43
performance, javascript, apis
Browser Trends of August 2012 (cra)42
browsers, trends
Old Browsers Are Holding Back the Web (lou/sma)41
browsers, internet-explorer, web-platform
Building a High Performance Website40
performance, processes, optimization
IE Market Share (ppk)39
internet-explorer, browsers
Validation: Measuring and Tracking Code Quality (j9t)38
html, css, conformance, quality
The Mobile Web: Discover the Possibilities37
web, mobile
Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window (chr/css)36
browsers, viewport, terminology
CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark (tre/sma)35
css, performance, comparisons
Responsive Web Design and Mobile Context (tka)34
responsive-design, mobile
Chrome Market Share Rises Above 10 Percent (cra)33
browsers, chrome
microformats.org at 5: Two Billion Pages With hCards, 94% of Rich Snippets (tan/mic)32
microformats, anniversaries, semantics
Website Response Times (nng)31
performance, user-experience, usability
Current Browser Market Shares and Trends (cra)30
browsers, trends
Chrome Market Share: One Year Later29
chrome, browsers
State of the Browsers—IE Edition (ppk)28
internet-explorer, browsers
IE8 vs. IE6: Rise of the New Machine (dal/aja)27
internet-explorer, browsers, comparisons
Performance Impact of CSS Selectors26
performance, css, selectors
Browser Support: The Two Metrics That Count (j9t)25
browsers, support
State of the Web 2008 [Results] (dal/aja)24
surveys, web-platform
Timing in JavaScript and Browsers Can’t Be Trusted (dal/aja)23
javascript, performance, windows
The Performance Cost of the HTML Tree Builder (hsi)22
performance, html, parsing
What’s the Fastest Way to Code a Loop in JavaScript?21
javascript, loops, performance, comparisons, browsers, firefox, camino, safari, opera, internet-explorer
UTF-8 Growth on the Web (kar/w3c)20
encoding, unicode
Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost19
firefox, browsers, opera, safari, internet-explorer, comparisons
A Study of AJAX Performance Issues18
ajax, javascript, performance, studies, research
The Great Browser JavaScript Showdown (cod)17
javascript, performance, opera, safari, internet-explorer, firefox, browsers, comparisons
Top Blogs Fail W3C Markup Validation (bpe)16
html, conformance
CSS Selectors—Speed Myths15
css, selectors, performance, extjs, jquery, dojo, mootools, prototypejs, internet-explorer, firefox, safari, opera, browsers, comparisons, myths
“Most Websites” Failing Disabled14
accessibility
WWWWWDD? (cod)13
browsers
JavaScript Loop Test12
javascript, loops, performance, browsers
Content Is King11
content, design
Web Authoring Statistics10
studies, research, html, attributes, metadata, mime-types, http-headers
16 Things That Really Annoy Most Web Users9
web, user-experience, pop-ups, performance, link-rot, content, search, navigation, design
DRC Web Investigation Finds Many Public Websites “Impossible” for Disabled People to Use8
accessibility
The Daily Standards7
websites, standards, conformance, comparisons
Things Can Only Get Better6
html, standards, conformance, w3c
Usability Metrics (nng)5
usability, research, comparisons
Tracking the Growth of a Site (nng)4
traffic
npm Package Download Statistics Checker3
tools, exploration, auditing, debugging, npm, dependencies
A/B Test Helper2
tools, exploration, a-b-testing, user-conversion, optimization, product-management
Statistical Significance Calculator1
tools, exploration, user-conversion