Web Almanac
HTTP Archive’s annual
state of the web report
Our mission is to combine the raw stats and trends of the HTTP Archive with the expertise of the web community. The Web Almanac is a comprehensive report on the state of the web, backed by real data and trusted web experts. The 2019 edition is comprised of 20 chapters spanning aspects of page content, user experience, publishing, and distribution.
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HTTP/2
HTTP/2 was the first major update to the main transport protocol of the web in nearly 20 years. It arrived with a wealth of expectations: it promised a free performance boost with no downsides. More than that, we could stop doing all the hacks and work arounds that HTTP/1.1 forced us into, due to its inefficiencies. Bundling, spriting, inlining, and even sharding domains would all become anti-patterns in an HTTP/2 world, as improved performance would be provided by default. This chapter examines how this relatively new technology has fared in the real world.
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The Web Almanac has been made possible by the hard work of the web community. 103 people have volunteered countless hours in the planning, research, writing and production phases of the 2019 Web Almanac.
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Unless otherwise noted, the metrics in all of the 20 chapters of the 2019 Web Almanac are sourced from the HTTP Archive dataset. HTTP Archive is a community-run project that has been tracking how the web is built since 2010. Using WebPageTest and Lighthouse under the hood, metadata about nearly 6 million websites are tested monthly and included in a public BigQuery database for analysis. The July 2019 dataset was used as the basis for the 2019 Web Almanac’s metrics. For more information, see the Methodology page.
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