Things about the web.

# How do we design a "healthy" site?

## What is a healthy site?

[Chromium's Web
Vitals](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/introducing-web-vitals-essential-metrics.html?m=1)
is a Google initiative to log a variety of information about a website
served over the internet, particularly to assess the website's behavior
and efficiency in Google Chrome. [The
library](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals/) offers an
easy-to-use way to disseminate performance to a series of values,
locally or in CI, that can then be tracked and reported.

# Visions

[Xanadu](https://xanadu.com/) is Ted Nelson's dream of a hyperconnected
world.

# Interesting Specifications

## Webmentions

[Webmention](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/)s are ways to notify URLs
when their sites are mentioned, helping construct a more social web;
this notifies some publisher B when website A links their site, so that
they can backlink to it!

Unfortunately, this protocol isn't standardized - but it's fun : ).

[How To Create An IndieWeb Profile - Kev Quirk](https://kevquirk.com/how-to-create-an-indieweb-profile/)  
getting started on the indieweb, a series of protocols constructed
around the traditional web to promote greater interaction.

# Do not

## Use ads

[Should I Block Ads?](https://shouldiblockads.com/#ha)

# web hostility

[article](https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/)
"Facebook is at odds with the open web that I love and defend…" Netscape
Navigator (small internet) -\> big internet! The modern web is being
destroyed – personalized content, growth hacking, social media
activation, CMS and user experience. These websites are not built to
appreciate the visitor – they are constructed to make the user a
customer. Cookies bad! Small blogging good!

# How do browsers work?

[Good question! Here is a good
article](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/).

# SEO

[how seo is ruining the
web](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet)
[Google's vaguely worded SEO advice
handbook](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf)
Can we reverse-engineer SEO with big data, lots of time, and search
results? Is this just one neural network vs. another producing
nondeterminism?

# Alternatives

## DNS

[Beehive:
CoDoNS](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/codons.php) is an
alternative DNS server with a better distribution profile while offering
backwards compatibility. [Handshake - A Namespace For The Decentralized
Web](https://meowis.ms/handshake.html) is an article pleading for an
actual, decentralized namespace - the ICANN licensing system just isn't
cutting it. Handshake uses a decentralized blockchain to register, track
and resolve unique domain names with proof of work - this is not
dissimilar to ENS.

## Serving

[Planktos](https://xuset.github.io/planktos/) allows users to serve
content from users directly to other users by cacheing static files as a
torrent. It's a cool peer-to-peer system that can cache both simple and
complex static sites!