It's honestly mindblowing how fast Google is able to render webpages at scale. The research is packed full of insights. Here's a sample: ✅ 50% of URLs without query strings are rendered within 10 seconds after crawling. ✅ 75% of URLs without query strings takes 22 seconds,

Super deep dive study on how Google Search indexes sites with JavaScript seroundtable.com/google-search-… by Vercel and Merj

🚨 SEO Research - Google ignores canonicals Our study of 595K domains found: 1) Google ignores canonicals with hreflang, lang, media, or type attributes. 2) 210 unique attributes used in canonicals across the set. 3) Many SEO tools do not report on it. merj.com/blog/how-extra…

Bing Webmaster Tools API and documentation bugs uncovered and confirmed seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster… via Ryan Siddle

Who is attending the Next.js Conf 2024 in London today? It would be great to meet some new faces. Happy to answer any questions around the recent JS rendering research too vercel.com/blog/how-googl…

Fantastic view at ⁦Next.js⁩ Conf

It’s like having one person turning up at an appointment every second which can be instantly seen versus having 3,600 people turning up all in one go. Consistency is better with some ebbs and flows.

🚀 Exciting news for #SEO folks! We have released a new Python client for the Bing Webmaster Tools API, enabling easier data access from Bing's ecosystem. merj.com/blog/introduci… The BWT API also has additional functionality including Bingbot crawl stats and regional

Top Trending SEO Stories in #SEOFOMO news Today 👀 * Introducing Our Bing Webmaster Tools API Python Client by Ryan Siddle * 10 SEO Trends for 2025 by Sachin Shaji Kalloothara * Google's Dirty Little Secret, Anonymous Queries by Matthew Mellinger Check them out 👏 news.seofomo.co

We analyzed billions of AI crawler requests to figure out how each crawler handles JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior. Here's what we found.

Proud to have FINALLY launched my first WordPress plugin. Automagically speed up your images and optimize their markup via your edge provider of choice (Cloudflare / Accelerated Domains / Imgix, etc). wordpress.org/plugins/edge-i…

ICYMI: We need to make platforms as crawler friendly as possible. Remove complexity, because some crawlers don’t have (good) heuristics to guide and they don’t have any rendering abilities.

You can now "SHARE" issue details your Google Search Console reports. In doing so, it will make public links. Google Developer Docs: This link grants access only to the current issue details page, plus any validation history pages for this issue, to anyone with the link. It

Tell me you're using a monolith platform only by looking at the pricing option and product variant selection 👀.

Lots of SEO practitioners are focusing on AI right now. If you want a mental break from AI, here is an article I've had in draft for some time that focuses on URL encoding. ✅ How to safely encode international characters in URLs (café → カフェ → καφενείο) ✅ Preventing

LFG! Vercel

Hi Ticketmaster I was in Vegas last week staying in one of the MGM hotels. I think you’re blocking the entire MGM network, which seems like a very bad idea given that people are on holiday or travelling for conferences and may wish to book tickets for events/shows

Apparently the Conservatives gov left a £22bn blackhole for the The Labour Party to pick up. We heard about it from Kier Starmer for months. He went and Rachel Reeves to the pub with their mates for a cunning plan and was like, hold my 🍺. We need to raise taxes for the existing