The 2022 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report
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Rick Viscomi is a DevRel engineer at Google, focusing on web performance. He is the co-author of Using WebPageTest, a book about web performance testing. He also co-maintains HTTP Archive and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Web Almanac.
Rachel Andrew works for Google as a technical writer, working on web.dev and the Chrome Developers site. She is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker, author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is a Member of the CSS Working Group, and can be found posting photos of her cats on Twitter as @rachelandrew.
Jeremy Wagner is a technical writer for Google on performance and Core Web Vitals. He has also written for A List Apart, CSS-Tricks, and Smashing Magazine. Jeremy will someday relocate to the remote wilderness where sand has not yet been taught to think. Until then, he continues to reside in Minnesota’s Twin Cities with his wife and stepdaughters, bemoaning the existence of strip malls.
Jens Oliver Meiert is an engineering lead and author (The Web Development Glossary, Upgrade Your HTML), who works as an engineering manager at LivePerson. He specializes in HTML and CSS minimization and optimization. Jens regularly writes about the craft of web development on his website, meiert.com.
Andrea Volpini is the CEO of WordLift, and is currently focusing on the semantic web, SEO and artificial intelligence.
Allen is founder and CTO for ‘The DataWorks’, delivering AI-driven web-data solutions to top tier organizations worldwide. His core focus is designing innovative technology solutions at scale, and his primary background is in enterprise systems.
Bram Stein is a developer and product manager. He cares a lot about typography and is happiest working at the intersection between design and technology. He is the author of the Webfont Handbook by A Book Apart and the FontFace Observer library. He also speaks about typography and web performance at conferences around the world.
Eric Portis is a Web Platform Advocate at Cloudinary.
Akshay Ranganath is a Sr. Solution Architect at Cloudinary and likes to work on CDN/WebPerf challenges.
Colin is CTO at Scott Logic and is a prolific technical author, blogger and speaker on a range of technologies. He is a board member of FINOS, which is encouraging open source collaboration in the financial sector. He is also very active on GitHub, contributing to a number of different projects.
Eugenia is a frontend engineer and tech event speaker who is passionate about web performance and state machines. She has experience working in fast-growing Berlin-based startups like N26 and Gorillas, and now she has joined RapidAPI. She ran a Google Developer Group in Latvia for several years.
Brian Kardell is a developer advocate and W3C Advisory Committee Representative at Igalia, a standards contributor, blogger. He was a founder of the Extensible Web Community Group and co-author of The Extensible Web Manifesto.
Sophie is the Client Services Director at UK-based agency Absolute Digital Media and specializes in SEO strategy and content marketing in highly competitive industries such as health and finance. Sophie is a conference speaker and industry blogger, and has proven experience in strategizing and delivering award-winning campaigns on a local, national and international scale.
Itamar Blauer is an SEO expert based in London. He has a proven track-record of increasing rankings with SEO that is UX-focused, data-backed, and creative.
Mordy Oberstein is the Head of SEO Branding at Wix. He also serves as a consultant for SEMrush and sits behind the mic of multiple SEO podcasts, including the SERP’s Up podcast.
Saptak S is a human rights centered web developer, focusing on usability, security, privacy and accessibility topics in web development. He is a contributor and maintainer of various different open source projects like The A11Y Project, OnionShare and
Thibaud Colas is a web developer and open source contributor focusing on accessibility topics. He is a core contributor to the Wagtail CMS, and a member of the accessibility team for Django.
Scott Davis is an author and Digital Accessibility Advocate with Thoughtworks, where he focuses on leading-edge / innovative / emerging / non-traditional aspects of web development. “Digital Accessibility is so much more than a compliance checkbox; Accessibility is a springboard for innovation.”
Mel Ada is a software engineer on the Web Performance team at Etsy. Her current involvement in the community includes co-organizing the NY Web Performance Meetup and speaking about recent works.
Tom Van Goethem recently joined the Chrome Privacy team at Google. Before, Tom was in PhD program with the DistriNet group of the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics in the field of web security and privacy, with a primary focus on side-channel attacks. By uncovering threats and proposing mitigations, Tom aims to make the web a nicer place, a tiny bit at a time.
Nurullah Demir is a cyber security researcher and PhD student at Institute for Internet Security and Intelligent System Security, KASTEL Security Research Labs. His research focuses on web security & privacy, and web measurements.
Known for his open source and JavaScript security initiatives, Liran Tal is an award-winning software developer, security researcher, and open source champion in the JavaScript community. He’s an internationally recognized GitHub Star, acknowledged for his open source advocacy, and has received the OpenJS Foundation’s Pathfinder for Security for his work on Node.js security. His contributions to developer security education include leading OWASP projects, building supply chain security tools, participation in CNCF and OpenSSF initiatives, and authoring books such as O’Reilly’s Serverless Security. He leads the developer advocacy team at Snyk.io and is on a mission to empower developers with better application security skills.
Brian is a web developer with in-depth experience in application security. He helps developers build secure web applications through his work as a Developer Advocate at Snyk.io. While he has experience working across full stack projects, his focus is on backend services, API’s and developer tools. Brian loves to teach developers what he’s learned from the successes and failures he’s had throughout his career. You can find him doing just that on his weekly livestreams or in one of his Pluralsight courses.
Cindy Krum is the CEO and Founder of MobileMoxie. She specializes in mobile SEO, app SEO (ASO), and anticipating and explaining changes in Google before they are announced.
Michael is a Developer Advocate at Amplication, focusing on helping developers build APIs and drink IPAs. Additionally, he is a Web GDE and has found his love in creating compelling experiences on the web and the voodoo ways of the web.
Diego Gonzalez is a computer engineer from Costa Rica working as the PM for PWA platform features for the Microsoft Edge browser.
Jonathan Wold is an Open Web advocate with more than 17 years focused on the WordPress ecosystem. Beyond his love for WordPress, he enjoys reading widely, playing strategy games, acting, rock climbing, and occasionally writing in third-person.
Laurie has been a web developer since 1996, with occasional breaks to found companies like awe.sm (2010) and npm (2014). He currently works as a Data Evangelist at Netlify. He loves making the web bigger and better. He thinks one of the best ways to do that is to encourage more people to do web development, by teaching them existing techniques and by building tools and services that make web development easier, so they don’t have to learn so much.
Salma helps developers build stuff, learn things and love what they do. She works at Netlify as a Staff Developer Experience Engineer, streams live coding, and loves helping people get into tech. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, specializing in front end development and tech leadership for startups, agencies and global e-commerce. Find Salma on Twitch to see what she’s currently building.
Laurent Devernay 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.
Gerry has published eight books. His latest, World Wide Waste, examines the impact digital is having on the environment. He developed Top Tasks, a research method which helps identify what truly matters to people.
Tim Frick started his digital agency Mightybytes in 1998 to help nonprofits, social enterprises, and purpose-driven companies solve problems, amplify their impact, and drive measurable business results. Mightybytes is a Certified B Corp that uses business for good. Certified B Corps meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Tim is the author of four books, including Designing for Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services. A seasoned public speaker, he regularly presents at conferences and offers workshops on sustainable design, measuring impact, and problem solving in the digital economy. He has also served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including Climate Ride, B Local Illinois, and the Alliance for the Great Lakes.
Jamie Indigo isn’t a robot, but speaks bot. As a technical SEO at DeepCrawl, they study how search engines crawl, render, and index the web. They love to tame wild JavaScript and optimize rendering strategies. When not working, Jamie likes horror movies, graphic novels, and 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.
Haren Bhandari is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Before joining Amazon Web Services, Haren used to work at Akamai Technologies and has deep experience with CDNs.
Joe Viggiano is a Media & Entertainment Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services helping customers deliver media content at scale.
Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He completed his PhD from the University of Michigan conducting research on systems to make web pages load faster. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
