An analysis of more than 400 websites by Zyppy founder Cyrus Shepard identifies five characteristics associated with whether a site gained or lost estimated organic traffic over the past 12 months. Shepard classified sites by revisiting many of the same ones covered in Lily Ray’s December core update analysis, categorizing them by business model, content […]
Google Explains Why It Doesn’t Matter That Websites Are Getting Larger
Every few months, someone points out that the median web page has ballooned to over two megabytes and declares the web bloated. Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used a recent podcast episode to push back on that framing directly. Their argument is not that page weight is irrelevant — it’s that “page weight” isn’t […]