#htmlfirst
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #htmlfirst from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #htmlfirst
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-02 16:43 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-02 16:43 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #htmlfirst.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-02 16:43 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 29 public posts (spanning ~68217 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00
Languages: English (25) · German (2) · Russian (1) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
This was the top performing post on @TheNewStack last week, so it seems there is a tremendous amount of interest in a post-React future among web developers. Maybe my Gmail analogy wasn’t far off after all ;) https://thenewstack.io/from-rea
#htmlfirst is the way the web was designed to be used. Start with the content (HTML), then progressively enhance it with style (CSS) and behaviour (JavaScript). "Modern" build systems lose many of the benefits of this approach. I agree with
“#HTMLFirst” is a fantastic mindset, but https://html-first.com is a disappointment and a distraction. Not once does that website suggest that #HTML should be #valid (to even constitute HTML), #semantic, or #accessible. But HTML First think
#htmlfirst across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #htmlfirst straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/htmlfirst