Lighthouse 10 Improves PageSpeed Insights Scores For 90% Of Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google has made a minor update to the meta tags and attributes that Google supports help documentation and added the two tags Google does not support. Those include the meta keywords tag and HTML tag lang attributes.

Google’s John Mueller said lesser-used or known languages published on the web are not considered low-quality content just because they are lesser known. He said on Mastodon “good content is good content” no matter what language it is written in.

Analytics firm Jumpshot shuts down In 2020, following critical articles about its data collection and sales practices, analytics firm Jumpshot was shut down by its parent company Avast. Jumpshot was made famous within the SEO industry by SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin’s (heavily criticized and widely circulated) zero-click analysis and presentations. Articles from Vice, PC Mag and Motherboard claimed that Avast and Jumpshot were “secretly harvesting” users’ browsing behavior, packaging it and reselling without their full knowledge.  Fishkin defended the company and faulted the publications for what he said was incomplete and biased reporting. […]