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Media 2025
Media 2025
If you're interested in contributing to the Media chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac, please reply to this issue and indicate which role or roles best fit your interest and availability: author, reviewer, analyst, and/or editor. You can find more details about this year’s Call for Contributions here.
💬 Please make sure to join #web-almanac-media on Slack for team coordination.
Content team
| Lead | Authors | Reviewers | Analysts | Editors | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | @svgeesus | @nucliweb @Dawntraoz | @MichaelLewittes | @turban1988 |
Expand for more information about each role 👀
- The content team lead is the chapter owner and responsible for setting the scope of the chapter and managing contributors' day-to-day progress.
- Authors are subject matter experts and lead the content direction for each chapter. Chapters typically have one or two authors. Authors are responsible for planning the outline of the chapter, analyzing stats and trends, and writing the annual report.
- Reviewers are also subject matter experts and assist authors with technical reviews during the planning, analyzing, and writing phases.
- Analysts are responsible for researching the stats and trends used throughout the Almanac. Analysts work closely with authors and reviewers during the planning phase to give direction on the types of stats that are possible from the dataset, and during the analyzing/writing phases to ensure that the stats are used correctly.
- Editors are technical writers who have a penchant for both technical and non-technical content correctness. Editors have a mastery of the English language and work closely with authors to help wordsmith content and ensure that everything fits together as a cohesive unit.
- The section coordinator is the overall owner for all chapters within a section like "User Experience" or "Page Content" and helps to keep each chapter on schedule.
Note: The time commitment for each role varies by the chapter's scope and complexity as well as the number of contributors.
For an overview of how the roles work together at each phase of the project, see the Chapter Lifecycle doc.
Milestone checklist
0. Form the content team
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May 18Complete program and content committee - 🔑 Organizing committee- The content team has at least one author, reviewer, and analyst.
1. Plan content
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June 1First meeting to outline the chapter contents - 🔑 Content team- The content team has completed the chapter outline.
2. Gather data
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July 1Custom metrics completed - 🔑 Analysts- Analysts have added all necessary custom metrics and drafted a PR (example) to track query progress.
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July 1HTTP Archive Crawl - 🔑 HA Team- HTTP Archive runs the June crawl.
3. Validate results
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September 1Query Metrics & Save Results - 🔑 Analysts- Analysts have queried all metrics and saved the output.
4. Draft content
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October 1First Draft of Chapter - 🔑 Authors- Authors has written the chapter.
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October 20Review & Edit Chapter - 🔑 Reviewers & Editors- Reviewers and Editors has processed the the chapter.
5. Publication
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November 15Chapter Publication (Markdown & PR) - 🔑 Authors- Authors has converted the chapter to markdown and drafted a PR.
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December 1Launch of 2025 Web Almanac 🚀 - 🔑 Organizing committee
6. Live Stream
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December 15Live Stream - 🔑 Content Team
Chapter resources
Refer to these 2025 media resources throughout the content creation process:
- 📄 Planning doc for outlining and drafting content
- 📊 Results sheet for saving the results of queries
- 📝 Markdown file for publishing content and managing public metadata
- 🔍 SQL files for committing the queries used during analysis
- 💬 #web-almanac-media on Slack for team coordination
Media 2024 has a section GIFs, animated and not. It would be nice next year to also have a PNG, animated and not section. Animated PNG is detectable by the presence of an acTL chunk.
pngcheck can be used to detect this.
@stefanjudis @nhoizey @eeeps @foolip, @nucliweb are you interested in working on this year's chapter?
@turban1988 I didn't do anything for the previous edition, even though I said I would. I'm deeply sorry for that, and I don't want to make another promise I can't keep.
I will not be able to lead, author, or analyze this year. I am trying to recruit colleagues at Cloudinary to take this up, wish me luck. More than happy to try to advise and transfer knowledge, whoever steps up.
One of the lessons from last year is that if the lead also ends up being the only author and analyst, it's going to be too much work. I still feel bad about not warning @stefanjudis adequately about how much time this was going to take.
@eeeps No worries, Eric! ❤ Thanks for pushing it over the finish line last year!
Hi @turban1988, I didn't do anything in the 2024 edition 🥲, but yes, I would like to participate as an analyst in the 2025 edition.
Hi @turban1988, I didn't do anything in the 2024 edition 🥲, but yes, I would like to participate as an analyst in the 2025 edition.
Great to have you on board!
@Dan-Nutter would you be interested in contributing this chapter as an author?
Animated PNG is detectable by the presence of an
acTLchunk.
I came across earlier discussion which indicated that this was easily possible; and also an estimate of usage in 2018:
~0.00275% (122 of the 4.4m PNG are APNG)
so we can see if usage is increasing or decreasing.
@Dawntraoz will you be interested in contributing to this chapter as author as well?
@Dawntraoz will you be interested in contributing to this chapter as author as well?
I'm thinking 🤔 that probably being author for the first time in two chapters is already a lot, so better to ask someone else to take the lead 🙏
But thanks for thinking of me 🫂