The Internet is changing fast, and SEOs should be, too! Get advanced tips and guidance for auditing technical SEO topics that are increasing in prevalence and importance today such as site migrations and re-platforming, site latency, and JavaScript crawlability. With a focus on actionable takeaways, we’ll look at realistic ways to translate SEO theory into next steps for your day to day job.
Presentation by Melody Petulla at Merkle during the BayAreaSearch.org June 2019 meetup at Conductor in San Francisco
18. Theory: As long as my page speed is not terrible, I’m in the clear.
Result: Load time should not impact the crawl for small sites.
However, slow pages will likely be crawled significantly less often on large sites.
19. Theory: As long as my page speed is not terrible, I’m in the clear.
Result: For large sites, pages that load in less than 3 seconds are crawled
significantly more often.
The vast majority of pages that take 3 seconds or longer to load are
crawled in fewer than 20% of Google’s crawls.