A web that's
safe and open
for everyone.
The Contract for the Web is a global plan of action — built by governments, companies, and civil society — to make our online world safe and empowering. Anglesite isn't a government or a platform, but it is a tool for building the open web. These are the principles we build in by default.
Read the ContractWhat the Contract asks for
Nine principles, split across the people who shape the web — three for governments, three for companies, three for the citizens who use it. Anglesite is a website builder, so the principles it can act on are the ones for companies and for citizens. Here's how each one shows up in the sites I build.
How Anglesite is built
The Contract asks companies to keep the web affordable, protect people's data, and build technology that supports the best in humanity. Anglesite bakes these in — there's no setting to switch off.
4 · Affordable and accessible
Make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone. Anglesite hosts your site for free on Cloudflare Workers — the only cost is a domain name (~$10/year), and even that's optional. Sites are static HTML, CSS, and JS: small, fast, and usable on slow connections and old devices. Every page targets WCAG AA — semantic HTML, color contrast, keyboard navigation, and alt text — so the web stays open to people using assistive technology.
5 · Privacy and data rights
Respect and protect people's privacy and personal data to build online trust. Your visitors get no cookies, no tracking scripts, and zero third-party JavaScript. Analytics, if any, are Cloudflare's cookieless beacon. Every deploy is scanned for leaked emails, phone numbers, and API tokens before it ships — and customer data is kept off the public site by design. Read the privacy approach.
6 · Technology for good
Develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst. No dark patterns, no engagement traps, no ad tech. Anglesite is open source — ISC-licensed code, CC BY 4.0 content — so anyone can read it, fork it, and trust it. Sites are up to 90% lower-carbon than mainstream builders, and agent-readable by design so the next generation of AI tools can understand the web instead of strip-mining it.
What Anglesite helps you do
The Contract asks the rest of us to be creators, build healthy communities, and fight for the web we want. A website you own is the most direct way to do all three — and that's exactly what Anglesite gives you.
7 · Be a creator
Be creators and collaborators on the Web. Anglesite exists to let anyone publish on their own site — no agency, no coding, no platform. A built-in visual editor handles posts, photos, and pages; IndieWeb tooling and POSSE help you publish on your site first and share everywhere else second. You make things, and they live somewhere you control.
8 · Build community
Build strong communities that respect civil discourse and human dignity. Microformats, Webmention, and rel="me" let independent sites talk to each other — replies, likes, and mentions flowing between people instead of through one company's algorithm. Conversations happen on domains you and your peers own, governed by your values rather than a moderation queue.
9 · Fight for the web
Fight for the Web. The strongest stand you can take is refusing to be locked in. Your code, your domain, your content — all portable files you can export and host anywhere. No proprietary database, no walled garden, no dependency on me. Take it and leave whenever you want; that freedom is the whole point.
And the three for governments?
Principles 1–3 — universal access, an internet that stays available all the time, and the protection of fundamental online rights — are for governments to deliver. A website builder can't legislate. But Anglesite is a small vote for the kind of web those principles imagine: open, lightweight, standards-based, and owned by the people who make it. Every site built this way is one more corner of the web worth protecting.
Build on the open web
You don't have to choose between an easy website and a principled one. Anglesite makes the principled choice the default — and gets you online in minutes.
Get startedRead the full Contract for the Web at contractfortheweb.org.