Highlights of the HTTP Archive Web Almanac 2021

Author: stefanjudis

Score: 24

Comments: 6

Date: 2021-12-05 11:59:21

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est wrote at 2021-12-05 14:15:50:

My impression of today's web, greater in css/js size, but with reduced creativity.

stefanjudis wrote at 2021-12-05 15:01:49:

100% agreed. Most of the things look the same and we just ship more and more code.

hulitu wrote at 2021-12-05 14:36:38:

It is the same with other software. Why bother thinking and testing ?

extra88 wrote at 2021-12-05 16:46:53:

Accessible video/audio is pretty much not existing.

He should have read more completely because the almanac notes:

… this figure may not account for video content loaded by a third party <iframe>, such as an embedded YouTube video. It should also be noted that most popular third-party audio and video embedding services include the ability to add synchronized text equivalents.

phillipseamore wrote at 2021-12-05 18:27:40:

And that note is off mark as well. Most audio/video players load captions/subtitles out-of-band and do their own rendering or add them to the video element via JS for greater control.

hulitu wrote at 2021-12-05 14:38:11:

70% of font-size declarations are in pixels.

And all websites must be either scale up or down.

kingcharles wrote at 2021-12-05 16:31:48:

The "top scoring site" loaded over 60mb of CSS.

This is why my 100GB mobile data plan runs out in 3 days.