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Web Developer experience research workstream

This repository hosts the research workstream of the W3C WebDX Community Group, which focuses on coordinating quantitative and qualitative research efforts to better understand the major obstacles and gaps that developers face when using the Web.

In practice, the WebDX Community Group regularly discusses surveys targeted at web developers to:

  • Converge on survey questions with survey proposers
  • Coordinate survey launch when applicable
  • Promote surveys
  • Coordinate the publication of survey results when applicable
  • Review and interpret survey results
  • Feed survey results into appropriate venue (e.g., the Interop project)

History of surveys tracked by the group

Survey Who/Where Date Answers Raw results Discussion
State of HTML Devographics Sep 2023 21889 N/A (GraphQL endpoint provides aggregated results) Results (also see Preliminary results)
State of CSS Devographics Jun 2023 9108 N/A Results
Web Security W3C workshop / MDN May 2023 297 CSV Interpretation
Web Components Web Components CG / MDN Mar 2023 732 CSV Interpretation
DevSat Survey Google Mar 2023 852 N/A PDF slides
Browser Support Matrix Google Nov 2022 233 N/A PDF slides
Web Browsers WebDX / MDN Oct 2022 964 CSV Interpretation

Milestones

An explicit goal of some of the recurring surveys is to inform the Interop project on priorities. These surveys need to run in advance of the project's selection process, usually in October.

More broadly speaking, important milestones for recurring surveys tracked by the WebDX Community Group are:

Survey Start Review Date Results
State of HTML Mar Jun Jul Oct
State of CSS Feb May Jun Sep
State of JavaScript Aug Oct Nov Jan
DevSat survey H1 Dec Feb Mar Apr
DevSat survey H2 Jun Aug Sep Oct

Explorations of possible surveys

See the list of open issues for discussions and explorations of possible surveys.

Background

To learn more about why the project was started and some of the problems it is reponding to, see:

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