Dave Smart 

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#WebDev & tech #SEO. Google Search Central Diamond Product Expert.

Maybe the real content we federated was the friends we made along the way?

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Page Weight | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Page Weight chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering why page weight matters, bandwidth, complex pages, page weight over time, page requests, and file formats.

SEO | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

SEO chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering crawlability, indexability, page experience, on-page SEO, links, AMP, internationalization, and more.

Was an absolute pleasure writing/editing the SEO chapter of the HTTP Archive's Web Almanac with
@dwsmart, @jammer_volts and Mikael Araujo!

Special shoutout as well to @tunetheweb!

You can read it here: https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/seo

#WebAlmanac #HTTPArchive #SEO

SEO | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

SEO chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering crawlability, indexability, page experience, on-page SEO, links, AMP, internationalization, and more.

Today we released the November 2024 core update. We'll add it to our ranking release history page in the near future and update when the rollout is complete. For more on core updates: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates
Google Search's Core Updates | Google Search Central  |  What's new  |  Google for Developers

Learn about how core updates work, and what you can do to assess and perhaps improve your content.

Google for Developers

@MikeBlazer unless of course the tool is pulling the additional <title> elements from SVGs.

In which case, it's fine

@simoncox I could never quite work it out, wondered if there was something that mathematically made it cheaper to resize without jankiness into the sizes they did want to use? Pure guess work, could just as easily be "because we said so"

Google's Favicon for search Documentation https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search updated, min size is 8x8px, but 48px min still recommended.

Still has to be 1:1 aspect (square), but that requirement for it to be a multiple of 48px has gone. That one always felt weird!

I've updated https://faviconcheck.tamethebots.com/ & https://tamethebots.com/tools/fetch-render to reflect these changes.

#seo #favicon

Define Website Favicon for Search Results | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

If your website has a favicon, it can be included in your Google Search results. Follow these favicon SEO instructions to make your site eligible.

Google for Developers

@Myriam @optimisey

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✅ pics from my house
@Myriam shares them every year
🐦‍⬛ Halloween MVP? Only the council of crows can decide, and as ever they remain ominously silent, obsidian eyes ever watching, but indifferent to the affairs of the lower orders, like humankind.

@ilovechoclates_ @simoncox there's a basketball coach who had the audacity to be born a decade before me with the same name. How very rude. 😀

The Chrome team is ramping up our support of bfcache for Cache-Control: no-store pages.

Read more about what that means here:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/bfcache-ccns

Enabling bfcache for Cache-Control: no-store  |  Web Platform  |  Chrome for Developers

Chrome is making a change to allow bfcache usage for pages using Cache-Control: no-store when this is safe to. Find out what that means for developers.

Chrome for Developers