CDN 2025

[nrllh]

CDN 2025

If you're interested in contributing to the CDN 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-cdn on Slack for team coordination.

Content team

Lead	Authors	Reviewers	Analysts	Editors	Coordinator
@joeviggiano	@joeviggiano @AlexMoening @nick-mccord	-	@carolinescholles @AlexMoening @nick-mccord	@carolinescholles	@Yash-Vekaria

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

• [x] 📆 May 18 Complete program and content committee - 🔑 Organizing committee
  • The content team has at least one author, reviewer, and analyst.

1. Plan content

• [ ] 📆 June 1 First meeting to outline the chapter contents - 🔑 Content team
  • The content team has completed the chapter outline.

2. Gather data

• [ ] 📆 July 1 Custom metrics completed - 🔑 Analysts
  • Analysts have added all necessary custom metrics and drafted a PR (example) to track query progress.
• [ ] 📆 July 1 HTTP Archive Crawl - 🔑 HA Team
  • HTTP Archive runs the June crawl.

3. Validate results

• [ ] 📆 September 1 Query Metrics & Save Results - 🔑 Analysts
  • Analysts have queried all metrics and saved the output.

4. Draft content

• [ ] 📆 October 1 First Draft of Chapter - 🔑 Authors
  • Authors has written the chapter.
• [ ] 📆 October 20 Review & Edit Chapter - 🔑 Reviewers & Editors
  • Reviewers and Editors has processed the the chapter.

5. Publication

• [ ] 📆 November 15 Chapter Publication (Markdown & PR) - 🔑 Authors
  • Authors has converted the chapter to markdown and drafted a PR.
• [ ] 📆 December 1 Launch of 2025 Web Almanac 🚀 - 🔑 Organizing committee

6. Live Stream

• [ ] 📆 December 15 Live Stream - 🔑 Content Team

Chapter resources

Refer to these 2025 cdn 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-cdn on Slack for team coordination

[joeviggiano]

@nrllh I'm happy to contribute again this year to leader the CDN chapter.

[carolinescholles]

Hi guys, I'd like to help as analyst and editor. Thanks

[Yash-Vekaria]

I see that @harendra @ytkoka you have contributed to the CDN chapter in 2022. Just wanted to bring this call for contributions for 2025 to your notice in can you would like to contribute to this year's CDN chapter.

[AlexMoening]

I helped on last years as an author, would be down for author / analysis.

[nick-mccord]

I can also help as author / analyst with Joe and Alex

[Yash-Vekaria]

Thanks everyone for willing to contribute towards a successful chapter for 2026 version. The team looks in great shape.

@joeviggiano Could you please kick-start the planning of this chapter with a meeting to discuss it with other contributors of this chapter?

[nrllh]

@joeviggiano, could you please try to schedule a meeting with the content team to draft this year's outline?

[nrllh]

@joeviggiano we still miss the outline, could you please draft the outlien with your team ASAP? Thank you!

[Yash-Vekaria]

@joeviggiano We do not have the chapter outline yet, could you please schedule a meeting with the team to outline it ASAP? Please let us know if we can help in any way.

[Yash-Vekaria]

@joeviggiano I see that the outline of the chapter is locked in. Is the team planning to implement or have already implemented the custom metrics for this year? If so, could you please share status on that as we are already past the custom metrics deadline.