5 August, 2020 by Richard Lawther
How Many Sites Pass the Core Web Vitals Assessment?
Speed has long been an official ranking factor, but with the introduction of the Core Web Vitals (CWV), many an SEO might have noticed the ominous Pass/Fail assessment within PageSpeed Insights. While these metrics aren’t yet used in Googles algorithm,...
8 April, 2019 by Richard Lawther
Reviving Retired Search Console Reports
Since I started my journey in the world of SEO, the old Google Search Console (GSC) has been a mainstay of every campaign I’ve worked on. Together, we’ve dealt with some horrific JavaScript issues, tackled woeful hreflang implementation, and watched...
8 February, 2019 by Richard Lawther
SEO Spider Companion Tools, Aka ‘The Magnificent Seven’
From crawl completion notifications to automated reportig: this post may not have Billy the Kid or Butch Cassidy, instead, here are a few of my most useful tools to combine with the SEO Spider, (just as excitin). We SEOs are...
6 August, 2018 by Richard Lawther
Bulk Testing PageSpeed Insights with the SEO Spider
Update: With the release of Spider version 12, you can now connect directly to the PageSpeed Insights API, letting you grab all your PageSpeed data automatically in the Spider — no XPath needed. Take a look here. Google does a...
