HTTP Archive 2025 Net Almanac | CSS-Methods

I really like me some good internet analysis stories. I’m a sucker for them. HTTP Archive’s Net Almanac is one report I sit up for yearly, and I do know I’m not alone there. It’s a kind of highly-anticipated publications on the state of the net, chock-full of well-documented findings about thousands and thousands of dwell web sites — 17.2 million on this version! — from web page content material, to efficiency, to accessibility, to UX, to… properly, let’s simply get to it.

It simply got here out, so there’s no approach I’ve learn by all 15 chapters, not to mention digested and mirrored on every part in it. Actually, I simply need you to remember that it’s out. That stated, it’s onerous for me to withstand sharing a minimum of just a few notable stats that hit me and that I’ll be sure you dig into.

Some highlights:

• New text-wrap values are exhibiting up! It’s small, however not shocking for options that solely shipped way back to 2023. Particularly, I’m wanting on the stability (2.67%) and fairly (1.71%) values.
• Variable fonts are now not a novelty. “How fashionable are variable fonts? This 12 months, 39.4% of desktop web sites and 41.3% of cell web sites used a minimum of one variable font on their pages. In different phrases, now about 4 in 10 websites are utilizing variable fonts.”
• Why can’t we nail down colour distinction?! Solely 30% of websites meet WCAG pointers, and although that’s a quantity that’s trending up (21% in 2020), that’s a sorry stat.
• Eradicating focus kinds is an epidemic. A whopping 67% of sights take away focus outlines regardless of WCAG’s requirement that “Any keyboard operable person interface has a mode of operation the place the keyboard focus indicator is seen.”
• Many photos are apparently ornamental. No less than, that’s what 30% of websites are suggesting by leaving the alt attribute empty. But when we think about that 14% of websites depart off the attribute fully, we’re roughly 44% of websites that aren’t describing their visible content material. On that notice, your photos in all probability will not be ornamental.
• ARIA labels are all over the place. We’re 70% utilization (29% on buttons). This doesn’t imply something in and of itself. It might be a very good factor, however may be a problem with out correct utilization.
• The CMS panorama is basically unchanged. I imply, WordPress remains to be the dominant drive, and that’s no dang shock. At this level, its enlargement wavers between a pair proportion factors yearly. “These modifications counsel that WordPress is shifting from a give attention to enlargement to at least one on stabilization.” That’s a very good factor.
• Bloat, bloat, bloat. “In July 2015, the median cell dwelling web page was a meager 845 KB. As of July 2025, the identical median web page is now 2,362 KB. The web page decade introduced a 202.8% improve.” In an ideal world the place we’re all tremendous aware about web page weight, I’d say we oughta goal for lower than half that whole.
• JavaScript be heavy. Photos are heaviest, in fact, however 697 KB of JavaScript is loads to abdomen. That huge development in web page weight since 2015 is extra help that this was a misplaced decade we should reckon with.

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