Tool of the Day: "Discover pCTR Predictor"
"Predicts Google Discover click-through rates using a model calibrated against actual SDK telemetry"
Nicely done @metehan777.bsky.social 💪
pctr-discover.pages.dev
70% Proportion of respondents having used lazy loading, the most-used feature among those with the “Newly Available” Baseline status.
Chart of the largest increased features including: lazy loading, srcset and sizes, <details> and <summary>, Content-Security-Policy, <dialog>, Defining Custom Properties with <template>, Shadow DOM, <search>, fetchpriority, details name.
The 2025 State of HTML survey is out
2025.stateofhtml.com
And I love the opening stat — Lazy Loading FTW!
Built-in, simple to use, attributes and elements are HTML's super power. And you can see that reflect in other attributes with the largest increase (details/summary, dialog, fetchpriority!)
Technical SEO tidbit spotted by @rustybrick.com
If you change a robots "noindex" directive to "index" via JavaScript, good chance Google won't ever render the JavaScript after they see the "noindex" in your HTML 🚫
"noindex" in HTML remains noindex
searchengineland.com/google-says-...
Wow, blown away by the talks at the amazing Tech SEO Connect conference this week.
I took lots of notes (10k words 😅) from all the talks and used AI to summarize the main takeaways, which you can see here:
lilyray.nyc/tech-seo-con...
As it was announced today that Adobe is acquiring Semrush for 1.9B, here are some of the companies that Semrush owns — presumably now owned by Adobe:
Backlinko
Kompyte
Prowly
Traffic Think Tank
Datos
Exploding Topics
Ryte
Search Engine Land
MarTech org
Search Marketing Expo (SMX)
MarTech Conference
Google AI Mode finally rolled out in EU.
www.seo-suedwest.de/10496-jetzt-...
#seo #google #aimode
Measuring brand mentions across YouTube (including logos and shout outs) is a super helpful metric; especially given how frequently YouTube is cited in LLMs
searchengineland.com/youtube-bran...
OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
NONE
Shared hosting: IONOS is blocking requests to websites from some AI bots from OpenAI / ChatGPT and Anthropic / Claude:
www.seo-suedwest.de/9921-shared-...
#ai #chatgpt #geo #hosting #seo
I just made another small update here, even though it extends the execution time a bit: I added a couple of missing patterns that I pulled from my *.de web index. (Top sitemap paths from ~4 million robots.txt files.)
I have just released a new script from my archive: Abros Sitemap Finder
Discovers XML/TXT sitemap files on websites. Useful when the sitemap of a third-party site is not linked in the robots.txt file. Battle tested over years, works like a charm.
github.com/Abromeit/sit...
Google's trust ranking patent shows how Google adopts user behavior as the basis for identifying trustworthy sites. Understanding this patent helps for achieving a better understanding of Google's ranking system priorities.
www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-trus...
Does anyone happen to have a recommendation for a large, straightforwardly formatted dataset of German, English words with frequencies and POS tagging? (wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de is somehow offline.) #NLP
My VS Code Extension has been updated for the latest PHP (8.4.10) and WordPress (6.8.2) versions.
It provides a link to the official documentation when hovering over function names.
For #VSCode:
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
For #Cursor, #Windsurf & Co:
open-vsx.org/extension/Ab...
Sooo looks like my public Twitter feed is broken forever. Not sure yet if i should switch. 🤔
