# about

About Web Dev Blog.

UK-flavoured web development editorial. Written by working developers, edited for clarity, honest about affiliate revenue. The domain has been web-dev since 2009 under various operators; the 2026 rebuild is under new editorial ownership focused on the UK developer audience.

What we cover.

• Hosting reviews and comparisons. Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Netlify, SiteGround, Fasthosts. Every review tests London TTFB from a UK server and captures a real support-ticket response time during the review.
• WordPress development. Gutenberg blocks, FSE themes, WP-CLI, WooCommerce.
• JavaScript and framework tutorials. React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Next.js, HTMX, TypeScript. Real production code, not toy examples.
• Tool reviews. VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ESLint, Prettier. No hidden sponsorship.
• Accessibility and Core Web Vitals. WCAG 2.2 AA checklists, Lighthouse audits, patterns we run before every launch.

Our editorial standards.

• Every tutorial ships with real code you can paste and run. No screenshots-only tutorials.
• Every hosting review includes a London TTFB test from a UK server and a support-ticket response time captured during the review. Not vendor-supplied numbers.
• No sponsored posts without inline disclosure. Sponsored content is capped at one post per quarter.
• Author bylines link to real GitHub profiles. No stock photos, no ghost-written bylines.
• UK English throughout. Prices in GBP. No US-only pricing on a .co.uk.

How we make money.

Two revenue streams: affiliate commissions on hosting signups (Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways, DigitalOcean, Vercel, SiteGround) and display advertising via EthicalAds. No AdSense, no exit-intent modals, no reader-hostile UX. Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow". Every review post has an Amber disclosure bar above the fold. Full policy on /affiliate-disclosure/.

History.

The domain has been in the web-dev space since 2009 under previous operators (a small UK design agency, then a personal blog, then dormant). Backlinks from that era persist to WordPress.org, TypePad, Pinboard, and WikiNews and are being preserved via canonical redirects during this 2026 rebuild. The 2024-2026 spam-comment wave (za.com, rank-your.*, seoexpress.org) is being disavowed in Google Search Console at launch.