Google’s John Mueller was asked about when it makes sense to host images or other content on separate subdomains or domains. John said it makes sense if Google is having trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl. John wrote on LinkedIn, “If Google has trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl … Read more
Eight seconds, on average. That’s how long people will wait for a website to load in 2024, according to a recent Forbes Advisor survey. By the numbers. Here’s how long people are willing to wait: Less than 3 seconds: 4% 3 to 6 seconds: 29% 7 to 10 seconds: 38% More than 11 seconds: 24% … Read more
WordPress released an official plugin that adds support for a cutting edge technology called speculative loading that can help boost site performance and improve the user experience for site visitors. Speculative Loading Speculative loading is a technique that fetches pages or resources before a user clicks a link to navigate to another webpage. The official … Read more
Toxic backlinks are links that some SEO tools say could hurt your website’s Google rankings. The implication is that you should disavow them to keep your site safe. But there’s some disagreement and confusion among SEOs as to whether “toxic” links are actually a thing and what, if anything, you should do about them. If you believe … Read more
According to an announcement by Google, optimizations related to Core Web Vitals (CWV) have saved Chrome users more than 10,000 years in page load time in 2023. CWV are a set of metrics developed by Google to quantify the user experience on web pages. The three key metrics are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which measures … Read more
Load testing assesses how a system, application, or website performs under specific conditions of concurrent user and data loads. The primary goal of load testing is to determine the system’s capacity and performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput, and resource utilization, under various levels of load. Load testing is a crucial step in ensuring … Read more
Google’s Local Service Ads (LSA), Google Screened, previously would load the same advertisers as you scrolled down the search results page. Now, Google is loading unique, different advertisers when it shows you new Google Screened LSAs. Len Raleigh, who specializes in Local Service Ads, spotted this change this morning and posted on X saying, “Now … Read more
Estimated reading time: 15 minutes In today’s fast-paced digital age, turning passive readers into active buyers is the holy grail of online businesses. But what are the secret ingredients to achieve high conversion rates? And what role does something as technical as page load time play in this equation? In this comprehensive guide, we will … Read more
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