A new update to Google's PageSpeed Insights tool has been quietly rolled out, which is the first large update since January 2018 when Google began using real user data from the Chrome browser to measure page speed of a site. With this update brings Lighthouse, a speed tool from Google, as its analysis engine, and also incorporates field data provided [...]
Google is sending a new type of notification out to those who have verified properties in Google Search Console. These messages inform site owners about pages that are really slow and take too long to load. Oliver H.G. Mason posted a screenshot of this message on Twitter: ########## N E W ##########https://t.co/tz1mlmzyuv ########## P O S [...]
We've heard about Google's thoughts on PageSpeed, and we all know that as a metric, it's really important from both an SEO and usability standpoint. Although WordPress isn't the only thing out there on the web, it does power over almost 60 percent (59.3%) of the web. Google even has dedicated an engineering team to work [...]
Fast sites are an important thing to have, since a fast site is rewarded with improved search engine optimization (SEO). These types of sites have the ability to drive both more visits and ultimately conversions. The more people who visits your site will lead to more sales, signups or traffic in general. But with the [...]
Since Google's Speed Update is coming this month, John Mueller was asked to clarify what me meant when he said the update will work at "more of a gradual scale." Mueller said in a recent interview that he told participants that the “the faster you can make your pages the more we can take that into account. [...]
Recently, Google announced a new mobile ranking algorithm, which is being called the "speed update." According to the search engine, the speed update is will “only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and only affect a small percentage of queries.” It's important to state that speed is already a big part of the mobile [...]
Jet Lockheed Martin F 35 Lightning Ii Fighter Jet Success in SEO tends to require not only an understanding of where Google and their algorithm is today, but an insight on where the company is heading in the future. For Bobby Lyons, it's clear that Google is going to place weight on the customer's [...]
Much has been invested by Google in regards to shaping the architecture of the web, working with developers, the open-source community and the SEO community to ensure adoption of technologies and practices as part of its mission “to contribute to the prevalence of a healthy, flourishing, and vibrant web.” Google recently partnered with open-source content management system [...]
With Google's Page Speed Update, you won't have to worry about it impacting how Google indexes your mobile or desktop content. It will affect only how the mobile pages are ranked in the Google mobile search results.Keep in mind that indexing and rankings are two different things, as Google explains in the How Search Works portal. There [...]
Although Google has stated several times that Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) aren't a ranking factor, there have been many that speculated that they could soon become one. AMP pages were made for speed, so if we take into consideration Google's recent announcement that page speed will become a mobile ranking factor later this year (which takes place [...]