Third Parties 2025

[nrllh]

Third Parties 2025

If you're interested in contributing to the Third Parties 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-third-parties on Slack for team coordination.

Content team

Lead	Authors	Reviewers	Analysts	Editors	Coordinator
@jazlan01	@jazlan01 @abubakaraziz	@anniepoohster	@jazlan01	@anniepoohster	@burakguneli

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 third-parties 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-third-parties on Slack for team coordination

[jazlan01]

Hey I am Jazlan, a PhD student at UC Davis. I would be happy to work on this chapter as a data analyst and/or as an author

[burakguneli]

Sounds great, thanks!! @jazlan01

[burakguneli]

Hello @turban1988 @ChrisBeeti @zubairshafiq, thank you so much for your contributions in 2024 🚀 How are you feeling about joining this year too?

[turban1988]

Sadly, I do not have the capacity to work on teh capter in this year's edition.

[anniepoohster]

I'd take on an Editor role for this chapter, especially if Page Weight is already taken.

[burakguneli]

Would anyone like to lead this year's chapter, or would any of you want to work as a reviewer also? :) @jazlan01 @anniepoohster

[anniepoohster]

hi @burakguneli thanks for the invite! I don't think I'll have the time to commit to the reviewer role. But I will take it on if you don't get any other volunteers. As this is my first year on the project, I'm not comfortable leading the chapter. I want to experience the process and learn for my first time around! I will repost the invite on Linked In and hope to recruit some other interested folks in web perf.

[nrllh]

@jazlan01, thank you for leading! Could you please try to schedule a meeting with the content team to draft this year's outline?

[burakguneli]

Please don't forget to join our slack channel :) @jazlan01 @anniepoohster https://httparchive.slack.com/archives/C01CRFV97K4

@anniepoohster I will help you for reviewer role if you won't have enough time or it will be too overwhelming

[anniepoohster]

thanks @burakguneli i can't get into the Slack, i keep having validation issues. are you able to send me a direct invite?

[jazlan01]

I cannot join the Slack channel either.

@nrllh can you send me a direct invite on my email address?

[burakguneli]

@jazlan01 I sent an invitation to: [email protected] Is this the correct email address?

[jazlan01]

Yes. I did not receive one. Let me check my spam folder

[abubakaraziz]

A little late, but I’m a PhD student working in the area of web privacy at Northeastern University. I’m also interested in helping as an author on this chapter, and I believe Dr. Nurullah has already added me as one on github. Could someone please send me a Slack invite at [email protected]? Thanks!

[nrllh]

Thank you Aziz!

@jazlan01 can you draft the outline with your team please ASAP?