Medium “Web Development” tag statistics
How busy the Web Development tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 7.8 days
Busier than 62% of 73 tracked tags
40% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 102 stories a day, Web Development is busier than 62% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (35,691 followers per daily story) is higher than 48% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
68% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 40% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 37% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.5 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Web Development stories
| Publication | Followers | Web Development stories (last 7.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 76 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 41 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 20 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 7 |
| CodeX | 37K | 7 |
| Alt. | 22 | 7 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 5 |
| Towards Dev | 11K | 5 |
| Stackademic | 88K | 4 |
| Ruby / Rails in Practice | 1 | 3 |
Top Web Development stories right now
- 5 Free Google Fonts That Turn an Average-Looking Website Into a Premium
- Stop Shipping Zone.js: What Angular 22’s OnPush-by-Default Actually Changes
- Earning Online: 8 Website Content Writing Jobs That You Can Earn $500–$1,200 a Day
- Reverse Engineer Anything: What the Viral GitHub Repo Actually Does
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FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Web Development tag on Medium?
- About 102 per day (717 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 7.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 240,601 stories in total.
- Is the Web Development tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 62% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 35,691 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Web Development?
- 40% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 68% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.