Web Almanac

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What Web Almanac actually does

Annual chapters written against that same measurement data, including privacy and tracking chapters that turn the raw tables into an argument with its sources attached.

What can and cannot be measured about Web Almanac

This entry has no repository, so none of the usual repository fields exist for it — no push date, no release tag, no archive flag, no licence identifier. Its state comes from one measurement only: the register requested the address and recorded what came back. Anything in the range 200 to 399 makes a non-repository entry ACTIVE, and that clause is the one the first edition of the rubric did not have at all, which is why dataset entries carried no state under it.

Read that for exactly what it is. It says the thing is reachable. It does not say the page still works correctly, because no HTTP status can carry that. Where a stronger signal exists — a repository, a version, a dated revision — this register prefers it, and where one does not, it prints the weaker signal and names it as weak rather than dressing it up.

Where Web Almanac sits in this catalogue

Web Almanac is filed in section 08, datasets, leaderboards & public statistics, whose scope is this: Published distributions and population data. The only place in this catalogue where a percentage means anything, because someone else measured it and says how. An entry sits in exactly one section here. Where a project could defensibly go in two, it is placed where a reader would look for it first rather than where it fits most tidily, and that is an editorial decision rather than a measured one.

Filed beside it in the same section: Device and Browser Info datasets (ACTIVE), HTTP Archive reports (ACTIVE), Chromium Privacy Sandbox (ACTIVE). Comparing an entry against its own section-mates is more informative than comparing it against the catalogue as a whole, because everything in a section is answering roughly the same question and the differences left over are the ones that matter.

There is no licence field, because there is no source to licence — this is a dataset rather than a code repository. It is grouped instead with every other entry the rubric marks ACTIVE, which is the axis that actually distinguishes entries of this kind from one another.

What to settle before you adopt Web Almanac

Each edition is a snapshot of one crawl year, and chapters vary in depth by whoever wrote them that year. Read the chapter's own methodology note before carrying a figure out of it.