The 2024 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report

Nurullah Demir is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and the founder of the cyber security platform SecuSeek. His work focuses on internet-scale security and privacy risks.

Caleb Queern is a Director in KPMG's Cyber practice and is based in Austin. He has more than 15 years of technology and information security experience. His focus is reducing risk and improving performance so organizations can meet business goals and enable growth. His specialties include secure DevOps and application security, security operations, and operational excellence.

Hadi Amjad is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research lies at the intersection of internet security, privacy, and program analysis. He specializes in JavaScript program analysis to identify code regions responsible for privacy and security violations on the internet. His work enhances privacy-focused tools, contributing to a safer and more secure web environment.

Nishu Goel is an engineer at Epilot. She is a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and Angular, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and the author of Step by Step Guide Angular Routing (BPB, 2019) and A Hands-on Guide to Angular (Educative, 2021). Find her writings at unravelweb.dev.

Estela Franco is a web performance and technical SEO specialist at Schneider Electric. But apart from that, she loves being connected to the community. That is why she is an international conference speaker, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Storyblok ambassador, co-organizer of the Barcelona Web Performance Meetup, and co-founder of the Mujeres en SEO community.

Andrea Volpini, CEO of WordLift, is pioneering advancements at the intersection of SEO and neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, driving innovation in semantic technologies and AI-driven content discovery.

Bram Stein is CTO at The Type Founders. Before that he was Head of Webfonts at Adobe Fonts. He is the author of the Webfont Handbook and speaks about typography and web performance at conferences around the world.

Charles Berret is a writer, interdisciplinary researcher, and data journalist who studies the history and philosophy of media and information technologies.

Stefan Judis fell in love with Frontend development ten years ago, and learns in public on his blog and newsletter.

Eric Portis is a Web Platform Advocate at Cloudinary.

Tobias Urban is a Professor of Computer Science, specializing in Cybersecurity, at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on IT security, data protection, and the impact of the GDPR on the Internet.

Yash Vekaria is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of California, Davis. He carries out web-based large-scale Internet measurements to study and improve the dynamics of web. Specifically, his research is focused at studying and bringing transparency to online tracking practices and user privacy issues.

Zubair Shafiq is a computer science professor at University of California, Davis. His research aims to make the Internet private, secure, and safe using empirically grounded measurement and modeling methods.

Chris Böttger is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Westphalian University of Applied Science. His research focuses on web and network security, primarily focusing on user privacy and tracking technologies.

Jamie Indigo isn’t a robot, but speaks bot. As director of technical SEO at Cox Automotive, they study how search engines crawl, render, and index the web. Jamie loves to tame wild JavaScript and optimize rendering strategies. When not working, they like horror movies, graphic novels, and terrorizing lawful good paladins in Dungeons & Dragons.

Dave Smart is a developer and technical search engine consultant at Tame the Bots. They love building tools and experimenting with the modern web, and can often be found at the front in a gig or two.

Mikael Araújo is an international SEO consultant, speaker and marketing strategist. He has worked and works remotely for several companies based in Europe, China, Russia, the United States and Brazil. He is currently a Data Science student and loves spending his free time with his family.

Michael Lewittes is the founder of Ranktify, an SEO software company that improves the quality and trustworthiness of content so that it rises higher in search results. Michael previously owned and sold a content company, as well as wrote for and edited several major U.S. publications. This is the second time he’s worked on the Web Almanac.

Mike Gifford is CivicActions’ Open Standards & Practices Lead. He is also a thought leader on open government, digital accessibility and sustainability. He has served as a Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer and also a W3C Invited Expert. He is a recognized authoring tool accessibility expert and contributor to the W3C’s Draft Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0.

Jevgenija is a frontend engineer and tech event organizer who is passionate about web performance and developer experience. She works at Limehome—a digital first hotel brand. She ran a Google Developer Group in Latvia and Berlin for several years.

Ines Akrap is a Frontend Software Engineer passionate about optimizing websites to be fast, sustainable, and provide the best user experience for every user. She works in Storyblok as a Solutions Engineer. She enjoys sharing her knowledge through talks, podcasts, workshops, and courses.

Benjamin Standaert is an M.Sc student in the Computer Science department at Washington University in St. Louis. He has prior experience developing ad-blocking software and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Max Ostapenko is a product manager in data and advertising with expertise in tracking, privacy, and web monetization. As a co-maintainer of the HTTP Archive, Max contributes to the accessibility of web insights.

Yana Dimova is a PhD student at DistriNet, KU Leuven, focusing on the user’s perspective of privacy and how they can protect it on the web. Her research interests are online tracking, personal data leaks and privacy and data protection law.

Shaoor Munir is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Davis, specializing in the analysis and development of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and the policies that govern online data collection. His work seeks to advance privacy safeguards for netizens by balancing technological innovation with responsible data governance on the internet.

Umar Iqbal is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis. His research focus on bringing transparency and control in computing systems to empower users, platforms, and regulators to improve user privacy and security.

Gertjan Franken is a postdoctoral researcher with the DistriNet Research Group at KU Leuven. His research spans various aspects of web security and privacy, with a primary focus on the automated analysis of browser security policies. As part of this research, he maintains the open-source tool BugHog for pinpointing bug lifecycles.

Vik Vanderlinden is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the DistriNet Research Group at KU Leuven. His research focuses on web and network security, primarily focusing on timing leaks in web applications and protocols.

Jonathan Wold is an Open Web advocate with more than 20 years focused on the WordPress ecosystem. Beyond his love for WordPress and the Open Web, he enjoys reading widely, strategy games, acting, rock climbing, and occasionally writing in third-person.

Lora is a Content Manager at NitroPack with 8+ years of experience developing in-depth, specialized content for SaaS companies in the CEE region.

Niko is a Content Writer at NitroPack with 5+ years of experience in dissecting nuanced topics like hosting, Core Web Vitals, web performance metrics and optimizations.

Jonathan Pagel studied ecommerce in his bachelor’s degree and has since been interested in the field, particularly in the areas of speed optimization and accessibility for shops and websites. Currently, he is freelancing in this field and pursuing a Master’s in AI and Society.

Mike Neumegen passionate about building a web that’s accessible, fast, simple, and secure and grounded in strong fundamentals. He’s the co-founder of CloudCannon, a content management platform that brings Git-based workflows to content editors.

Laurent Devernay Satygraha is a Digital Sobriety Expert for Greenspector. You can find him blogging on his own or for this company but almost always about web sustainability. Which makes him either an enthusiast or a monomaniac. Connect with Laurent on LinkedIn.

Burak is Frontend Software Engineer who strive to understand how things work under the hood to unravel their mysteries, especially in Javascript. He is based in Berlin and if you’re also living in Berlin, there’s a good chance you might bump into each other at an indoor cycling class.

Alexander Dawson is a Web Developer, Sustainability Researcher, and editor of the Web Sustainability Guidelines. You can find more details about him at alexanderdawson.com.

Tim Frick is President of Mightybytes, a digital agency and Certified B Corp located in Chicago. A seasoned public speaker, he regularly presents on sustainable design, measuring impact, and problem solving in the digital economy. Tim is also the author of four books, including Designing for Sustainability, A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services, from O’Reilly Media. Connect with Tim on LinkedIn.

Joe Viggiano is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services helping Media & Entertainment customers deliver media content at scale.

Jaiganesh Girinathan is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services with the mission to help customers deliver a fast and secure digital experience.

Alex Moening is a Senior Edge Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.

Dr. Robin Marx is a web performance expert at Akamai Technologies. He studies the performance and operation of modern web protocols such as HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and QUIC. Robin often speaks about web performance at international conferences, making complex situations more understandable for the general public.