For a web designer/developer, having a detailed knowledge about the overall web-related statistics is pretty valuable to better analyze what you're actually doing is right (and better) or not.

HTTP Archive is a website which applies regular checks on 17,000+ websites, collects information and outputs web development -related, up-to-date reports.

The reports are categorized as trends and stats where trends include:

• average response times
• HTML/CSS/JS/image sizes and the number of requests
• Page Speed scores
• and more..

and stats include:

• popular JavaScript libraries
• popular scripts
• pages using Google Libraries API
• pages using Flash
• and more..

HTTP Archive is an open source project where you can easily perform a custom install and run more frequent checks, create new reports and/or get the stats for a different set of websites.

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