About Web Almanac
The Web Almanac is an annual report on the state of the web, produced by HTTP Archive and a community of contributors. The 2025 edition has 16 chapters on page content, user experience, publishing and distribution.
What it does
Each chapter explains trends using statistics from the HTTP Archive dataset. Topics include SEO, structured data and how sites are built and published. A methodology page explains where the numbers come from, so readers can judge how far to trust a figure.
Key features
- Sixteen chapters in the 2025 edition
- Statistics from millions of tested websites
- A chapter on SEO and search trends
- Methodology page that explains the data
- A list of contributors for each edition
Who it's for
Web developers and designers who want to see real trends in how sites are built. SEO specialists, researchers and product teams who need reliable figures about the web.
Pricing and good to know
The report is free to read. The site states that its content is licensed under Apache 2.0. The 2025 edition used the July 2025 dataset from HTTP Archive, which tests more than 16 million websites each month with WebPageTest and Lighthouse. A new edition is published each year.
Highlights
- Sixteen chapters in the 2025 edition
- Statistics drawn from millions of tested websites
- A chapter on SEO and search trends
- Methodology page that explains the data
- A list of contributors for each edition
