Google Lighthouse, a free tool, can identify ways to improve a site’s load time. Lighthouse is available in Chrome, in the “Developer Tools” menu. Site speed is tricky for search engine optimization practitioners. It’s a ranking signal for Google and a key factor in the customer’s experience. Studies by Walmart and Amazon found that even […]
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Combined insights from Google Lighthouse and Searchmetrics Using each customer’s keywords to compare search performance in individual market against thousands of direct competitors San Mateo, March 20, 2019 ‒ Searchmetrics is combining insights from Google Lighthouse with its own extensive search data to give SEO professionals a fully-customized, comprehensive report highlighting the Google ranking factors
Google has updated Lighthouse to measure tap target spacing on mobile websites. When returning an audit, tap targets will now be factored into the SEO score. New mobile friendly📱 SEO audit in the @____lighthouse Chrome extension and on https://t.co/kzkvJE0pUI – tap target spacing! Tap targets (links, buttons) need extra space around them so taps don’t
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Performance is money. We’ve all had it drilled into our heads: 7s page load means 26 percent session loss. We’re learning more about the real-life human impact of our heft pages. ($0.11 to load a single page? What’s going on there, Canada!) SEO professionals everywhere are collectively sighing over their personal and collective battles all
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Google’s John Mueller recently stated that Lighthouse metrics are an indication of how fast a site performs for actual users. They’re not necessarily an indication of how Google’s algorithms assess a site with regards to speed. This topic came up during a Google Webmaster Central hangout where the following question was asked: “We have good
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Google announced development of a new Lighthouse feature that will offer audit data specific to your Content Management System (CMS). The new feature is called Platform Packs for Lighthouse. Platform Packs improves the quality of the audit with tips that are specific to your CMS. Google is asking for feedback. What CMS Will Lighthouse Platform
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Google PageSpeed Insights now uses Lighthouse as its analysis engine. This change was made in order to create consistency between Google’s web page performance analysis tools. Previously, Google’s tools used different analysis engines which resulted in different recommendations from each tool. Users can now get the same performance audits and recommendations on the web, from
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Google has quietly rolled out a new update to its PageSpeed Insights tool, 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. The new update today uses Lighthouse, a speed tool from Google, as its analysis engine and also incorporates field
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At Google, we know that speed matters and we provide a variety of tools to help everyone understand the performance of a page or site. Historically, these tools have used different analysis engines. Unfortunately, this caused some confusion because the recommendations from each tool were different. Today, we’re happy to announce that Pagespeed Insights (PSI)
Online retailers need to improve site performance and accessibility but they are optimized for search engines based on an audit of 70 recognizable retail websites. On June 9 and 10, 2018, I ran each of 70 well-known ecommerce websites through Google’s Lighthouse, a free monitoring tool. It rates sites on five areas: Performance, Progressive web
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