README.md

The front-end side of news

Front-end metrics from big news sites around the world. https://isellsoap.github.io/front-end-side-of-news/

Motivation

On March 30th 2015 I tweeted an image of a weekend project I did showing a chart of HTTP requests and page weights of big news sites from various countries. I got a lot of feedback from that tweet (at least for my standards). Anselm Hannemann asked if I would put up a HTML version of the image, so this is it.

I think especially big news sites have a certain responsibility of delivering a certain quality of front-end code to their customers because they normally have massive reach, massive traffic, loyal readers and are confronted with a heterogenous pallet of end-user devices they have to serve. Last but not least they offer information people want to consume if they visit their site, so the information should be served as fast and accessible as possible.

Contributing

Do you miss any metrics? Did you spot an error? Please be sure to check out the list of existing issues before creating one of your own. You are most welcome to do so, I appreciate every feedback, criticism and help.

Credits and links

• blog post introducing this repository
• Website
• CHANGELOG.md detailing what changed over time
• created by Francesco Schwarz (@isellsoap)
• type face: Fira Sans
• relative time calculation: moment.js
• accessible color concept: Say Goodbye to Red-Green Color Scales
• information about page weight of websites: Measuring page weight

License

This repository is published under the MIT License.