Google on How to Raise Your Pagespeed Insights Scores
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Google Search Advocate John Mueller addresses the challenges involved in raising PageSpeed Insights (PSI) scores on Google and offers advice on boosting website speed in a recent Reddit discussion.
A user recently posted in a forum asking for advice after finding that, contrary to expectations, drastically lowering the sizes of picture and video files did not improve PSI rankings. The user reported that despite compressing videos by 80% and pictures by 90%, PSI’s speed rating for their website remained the same.
PSI is a free tool offered by Google to assess how quickly submitted webpages load. It evaluates many components—such as images, scripts, and code — to produce a score between 0 and 100 and offers suggestions for improving performance.
Given that page speed is a big concern for SEO and user experience, getting a high PSI score is without the doubt one of the top priorities for people working on websites.
Beside reducing image file size for faster page load, Mueller suggests that you take following measures:
- Conduct a test to determine the extent to which individual elements leave impact on your website;
- Test things on your test, noindex page
- Deleting components that have already been optimized from a copy of the original page in order to concentrate on improvements for the remaining problems.
It might take a lot of patience and incremental testing to optimize website speed. If you want to raise your PageSpeed Insights ratings, consider analyzing the impact of individual webpage elements before making site-wide modifications.
Achieving and maintaining green ratings on websites is achievable with appropriate tactics customized to meet their specific requirements.
Google Introduces November 2023 Reviews Update
On 8th of November, Google declared that it will begin releasing the November 2023 reviews update. With this update, Google will now approach review-based content differently.
The reviews ranking mechanism is intended to assess articles, blog posts, and other stand-alone content that focuses on opinions and analysis, according to Google’s guidelines. Third-party reviews, such as those written by customers on product or service sites, are not evaluated by it.
When reviews make up the majority of a website’s content, the algorithm will assess every piece of it. For sites where reviews are not the primary focus, assessments will take place at the page level instead of the website as a whole.
This change might be good for websites that prioritize reviews. Even if problems were promptly resolved, websites that suffered from Google’s review system in the past had to wait months for a recovery until the next upgrade.
Faster recoveries are possible when frequent, slow changes are made. However, publishers now face additional difficulties as a result of needing to continuously monitor and assess material based on reviews.
Google recommends that websites that seek reviews follow closely to its quality requirements and concentrate on them.
Google Introduces a New Shopping Portal Added to Search
Google unveiled a new shopping deal search function that leverages Google’s Shopping Graph, a dataset including all of the global shopping data, along with many Chrome improvements to make it more focused on shopping.
Portals were popular in the late 1990s (AOL being the most notable example), but they quickly became outdated when Google unveiled their minimalist search box, which lacked the clutter that characterized online portals at the time.
Although Google doesn’t refer to it as a shopping portal, its new search function does meet the definition of one if a web portal is defined as a webpage that collects purchasing data from the Internet and makes it readily navigable for consumers.
Google lists several new features:
- Google Shopping Graph-powered search improvements
- A new offers page accessible through Google Search
- New capabilities in Chrome for finding deals online
- A new Price Insights tab in the desktop version of Chrome
- More methods to monitor costs across all retailers for same items
Google is on a mission to organize the world’s information and knowledge and make it widely accessible and useful.
OpenAI Introduced a Number of New Products
OpenAI revealed a number of new features and improvements for developers and ChatGPT users at DevDay, an exhibition of state-of-the-art advances in artificial intelligence. Among these was the capability to build customized GPTs.
One of the new features is Assistant API, which was designed to make the process of developing AI-powered apps easier. It includes features like enhanced function calling, code interpretation, and retrieval.
This new API is a step toward more sophisticated and adaptable AI solutions that can better manage challenging jobs.
OpenAI also improved speed on a range of workloads and upgraded its GPT-3.5 Turbo model with a default 16K context window.
The revisions show a 38% improvement in format after completing activities like YAML, XML, and JSON generation.
GPT-4 Turbo has advanced to the point that it can already process pictures, a capability that firms such as BeMyEyes are already using to help people with visual problems.
Additionally, the corporation is providing experimental access to GPT-4 fine-tuning, with a focus on enhancing quality and safety.
In order to facilitate application scalability, price reductions for a number of services have also been announced, coupled with higher rate limitations.
With the release of Copyright Shield, OpenAI’s dedication to copyright protection is further reinforced. Developers of APIs and corporate users of ChatGPT will be protected by this.
Furthermore, Whisper large-v3 and the Consistency Decoder, which OpenAI is developing to enhance voice recognition, are expected to yield better performance and picture quality.
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