25 articles
Technical problems are the ones that go unnoticed longest, because nothing visibly breaks: the site loads, the pages look right, and the traffic simply never arrives. This cluster covers the layer underneath the content — whether a crawler can reach your pages, enumerate them, render them, and read them fast enough to matter. Start at the bottom of that stack, not the top: in a scan of 107,308 domains (Cloudflare Radar, 13 July 2026), 30.8% had no sitemap at all, which makes every optimization above it moot.
· 16 min read
Benchmark your site against real 2026 data: Cloudflare Radar crawl ratios, Web Almanac Core Web Vitals pass rates, and post-AI-Overview CTR — every figure sourced and dated.
· 16 min read
Only 45.9% of crawler requests return a 200. The 2026 crawl waste report breaks the waste down by client type, industry, and operator — and finds AI bots are the cleanest traffic on the web, not the dirtiest.
· 22 min read
Mobile LCP fails on 58.4% of the 100,000+ sites we audited in H1 2026. Here are the ten most-failed technical SEO issues, ranked, with a fix for each.
I've seen websites cut server response times by 40% and improve crawl efficiency dramatically—all by implementing two simple HTTP headers correctly. Here's exactly how If-Modified-Since and Last-Modified work, and why they matter more than ever for SEO.
· 12 min read
We checked the top 1,000 domains: 1 in 5 robots.txt files now fully blocks an AI crawler. The syntax, the rules Google ignores, and how to handle GPTBot.
· 10 min read
The median site we audit scores 71/100 — a C+. See what 100,000+ SEO audits reveal about the issues failing most sites, plus how often to audit in 2026.
· 12 min read
Page load speed directly impacts both SEO rankings and user engagement. Learn how Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) affect your search visibility, why 53% of mobile visitors abandon slow sites, and proven optimization strategies to boost performance.
· 12 min read
Median loaded latency is 257ms — the INP budget is 200ms. Before your JavaScript runs a single line, the network has already spent the whole allowance. The speed numbers that actually decide your Core Web Vitals.
· 13 min read
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), explained with fresh data: of 115 Google page-1 results we tested in October 2026, only 8.7% hit 2.5 s. Here's what to fix.
· 10 min read
Run a complete Shopify SEO audit for 2026 with this 4-phase checklist covering Core Web Vitals (INP), AI Overviews readiness, structured data, and free audit tools.
· 22 min read
We tested 151 B2B SaaS pricing pages from Google's page 1. Rendering and canonicals are mostly fine; only 32.5% mark up prices. The 8-step audit.
· 8 min read
An SEO audit for charities covers 16 areas from site indexing to local SEO. With organic search driving 44% of nonprofit website traffic and only 0.16% of visitors donating, a thorough audit helps maximize every visitor's potential to support your cause.
· 7 min read
An SEO audit for law firms covers keyword research, on-page optimization, technical health, local SEO, backlinks, and competitor analysis. With 87% of clients using Google to find lawyers, regular audits are essential for maintaining visibility and generating qualified leads.
· 4 min read
We frequently deal with various types of web content. Haven't we all wondered about the process that goes behind ensuring this content is properly and correctly displayed in web browsers?
· 10 min read
Recognizing canonical issues is your first step towards resolving them efficiently. As with any other SEO strategy, you must equip yourself with the right knowledge, take proactive steps to avoid common pitfalls, and keep a close eye on your implementation.
· 12 min read
We probed 232 ranking domains on 31 July 2026: 87.9% keep the blog in a subfolder, but 66% run docs on a subdomain. See the split, then pick yours.
· 7 min read
If you’re experiencing challenges with bots crawling your site and affecting your SEO strategy, it’s crucial to make yourself familiar with effective ways on how to prevent bots from crawling your site.
· 17 min read
The median e-commerce site we audit scores 68 (D+); 52% carry Product schema errors. Run this 10-step audit to find your leaks and fix them in order.
· 9 min read
Just like a blueprint that outlines a house's design, a sitemap helps search engines navigate a site efficiently and index all pages properly. In this sense, sitemaps play a pivotal role in any website's SEO strategy.
· 7 min read
Imagine you're an artist. Would you be happy to find your artwork showcased in someone else's gallery without your consent, where no one can place you as the legitimate painter?
· 8 min read
Have you ever come across the pesky ‘Crawled-Currently Not Indexed’ error in your Google Search Console?
· 21 min read
Redirect chains fail on 24.3% of the sites we audit. A 24-point website migration checklist for SEO covering pre-launch, launch day, and the 90 days after.
· 14 min read
Slow mobile LCP is the single most-failed rule across the 100,000+ sites we audited in 2026. Find which metric failed, fix it, and pass the assessment.
· 23 min read
Learn how to do an SEO audit of any website in 2026 — technical, on-page, off-page, and AI-search checks — then run a free audit to fix issues fast.
· 9 min read
The digital world is continuously evolving and changing as we march ahead in this technology-driven era, and Single Page Applications (SPA) are leading the way in shaping the modern-day web development.
Get our research the day it ships, new free tools as they launch, and notes from the B2B SaaS SEO playbook our agent runs.
