Tuesday, March 30, 2021
By Scott Saunders-Singer Time is running out. So it’s time to be blunt. Most websites aren’t ready for mobile first indexing or Google’s new scoring algorithm update in May 2021. In conversations with ecommerce teams, they think their website is “good enough” and it won’t affect them. Responsive Website Does Not Mean Good Core Web […]
Friday, March 19, 2021
Google has officially confirmed the next core algorithm update to shift page ranking factors in May 2021. They make a bunch of changes every week, particularly to encourage webmasters to keep updating their sites beforehand. The update includes a series of benchmarks to enhance the user experience. So soon after the update, Core Web Vitals, […]
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Next.js’ version 10.0.0 release in October of 2020 came with exciting news for developers – built-in image optimization thanks to its brand-spanking new Image Component. By automatically applying certain best practices and steering developers towards adopting them, it promises to help developers stay on top of optimizing performance for image-heavy web apps. Advanced, intelligent image […]
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The business value of an image CDN has been acknowledged by the online industry over the last year. Google recommends image CDNs on a general basis, but it’s also required to achieve good SEO when core web vitals performance are included in the ranking algorithms. Moreover, the web development community has acknowledged that images should […]
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
New Image Formats: Confusing Options GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, SVG, WebP, AVIF. There are so many image formats to chose from when building a website. How should a website developer choose image formats for the best performance and quality? With so many formats, it is tough to select the right […]
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
How Much Better is AVIF? There are several studies and examples that demonstrate how much better AVIF is for compressing, or reducing the byte size of an image, while still maintaining the image quality. Netflix has been cheering for AVIF for a while. Google themselves are demoing and comparing AVIF image quality and file size […]
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
November 2020 Support for AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) was introduced to the mass market by Chrome 85 in August 2020. Likewise, Opera started to support in release 71. Soon, Firefox is expected to enable AVIF by default, but the feature is currently hidden behind a flag. In terms of the share of browsers and […]
Friday, November 6, 2020
What is AVIF? AVIF is an image format that uses the same compression algorithms found in video codecs. Wikipedia defines AVIF like this: AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) (pronounced [əˈ vif]) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format AV1 is the royalty-free […]
Monday, November 2, 2020
Core web vitals from Google are the new ranking signal in the town that are expected to arrive with full force in 2021. They will join the “page experience signal” to promote the websites for developing better user experience characteristics like mobile-friendliness, loading speed, and more. But before taking a deep dive into the core […]
