Dave Smart
@tamethebots.com
(semi) professional goth. Full-time idiot with a computer. Tech SEO & Dev at tamethebots.com #Webdev #TechSEO
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We’re excited to launch the public preview of AI Performance in BWT! See when your content appears in Copilot, Bing AI answers, and select partner experiences - including when pages are cited, top referenced URLs, and grounding queries. GEO meets SEO!
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/Fe...
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/Fe...
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
We’re excited to launch the public preview of AI Performance in BWT! See when your content appears in Copilot, Bing AI answers, and select partner experiences - including when pages are cited, top referenced URLs, and grounding queries. GEO meets SEO!
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/Fe...
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/Fe...
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We recently added support for adding specific URLs to our CrUX trends dashboard – not just entire domains!
www.debugbear.com/docs/crux-tr...
www.debugbear.com/docs/crux-tr...
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
We recently added support for adding specific URLs to our CrUX trends dashboard – not just entire domains!
www.debugbear.com/docs/crux-tr...
www.debugbear.com/docs/crux-tr...
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Was a few months ago that i did this, and nothing has changed.
Adding go faster stripes on your car is not going to make any difference to your monthly grocery shopping trip - make sure your car works well and can get your there and back.
Adding go faster stripes on your car is not going to make any difference to your monthly grocery shopping trip - make sure your car works well and can get your there and back.
Simon Cox (@simoncox.com) believes that the core technical SEO principles will endure as long as websites exist, so avoid chasing fleeting trends and focus on the fundamentals.
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maj.to/3YQjv1U
February 9, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Was a few months ago that i did this, and nothing has changed.
Adding go faster stripes on your car is not going to make any difference to your monthly grocery shopping trip - make sure your car works well and can get your there and back.
Adding go faster stripes on your car is not going to make any difference to your monthly grocery shopping trip - make sure your car works well and can get your there and back.
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In Google Search Console's "Crawl stats" report, whenever I see a high percentage of product URLs that shouldn't be crawled, I first head to Merchant Center.
More often than not, these URLs are used in the Merchant Center feed, showing Google must rely on it a lot for product URL discovery.
More often than not, these URLs are used in the Merchant Center feed, showing Google must rely on it a lot for product URL discovery.
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In Google Search Console's "Crawl stats" report, whenever I see a high percentage of product URLs that shouldn't be crawled, I first head to Merchant Center.
More often than not, these URLs are used in the Merchant Center feed, showing Google must rely on it a lot for product URL discovery.
More often than not, these URLs are used in the Merchant Center feed, showing Google must rely on it a lot for product URL discovery.
I would have a preference for songs that came with treats and adventures
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I would have a preference for songs that came with treats and adventures
Yes, often self penned ditties revolve around dinner time, strangely enough.
We did have a Chinese water dragon that loved Steph singing to him, he hated my performances though. Which was fair enough critique to be honest.
We did have a Chinese water dragon that loved Steph singing to him, he hated my performances though. Which was fair enough critique to be honest.
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yes, often self penned ditties revolve around dinner time, strangely enough.
We did have a Chinese water dragon that loved Steph singing to him, he hated my performances though. Which was fair enough critique to be honest.
We did have a Chinese water dragon that loved Steph singing to him, he hated my performances though. Which was fair enough critique to be honest.
Did you accidentally select the "I am a spider" or "I am a biblically accurate Ophanim angel" option?
Because that's extra eyes to shade.
Because that's extra eyes to shade.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Did you accidentally select the "I am a spider" or "I am a biblically accurate Ophanim angel" option?
Because that's extra eyes to shade.
Because that's extra eyes to shade.
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🆕 Calibre now spiders your Site and collects Google Chrome User Experience Report data for all your pages!
Zero config & no manual checks.
Metrics for all your most important pages.
calibreapp.com/changelog/ar...
Zero config & no manual checks.
Metrics for all your most important pages.
calibreapp.com/changelog/ar...
CrUX Pages: Automatic page discovery
Calibre automatically discovers and tracks your most important pages in CrUX
calibreapp.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 AM
🆕 Calibre now spiders your Site and collects Google Chrome User Experience Report data for all your pages!
Zero config & no manual checks.
Metrics for all your most important pages.
calibreapp.com/changelog/ar...
Zero config & no manual checks.
Metrics for all your most important pages.
calibreapp.com/changelog/ar...
Mostly I did this as a fun exercise, & it is perhaps a bit blunt, so I would treat is as guidance if you are testing one of the few sites that genuinely does get affected by this limit.
As ever, what's actually indexed (URL inspector) & findable (site: and quote snippet) are the final word!
As ever, what's actually indexed (URL inspector) & findable (site: and quote snippet) are the final word!
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Mostly I did this as a fun exercise, & it is perhaps a bit blunt, so I would treat is as guidance if you are testing one of the few sites that genuinely does get affected by this limit.
As ever, what's actually indexed (URL inspector) & findable (site: and quote snippet) are the final word!
As ever, what's actually indexed (URL inspector) & findable (site: and quote snippet) are the final word!
At the risk of overselling how much of a real world issue this is (it really isn't for 99.99% of sites I'd imagine), I added functionality to tamethebots.com/tools/fetch-... to cap text based files to 2 MB to simulate this.
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
At the risk of overselling how much of a real world issue this is (it really isn't for 99.99% of sites I'd imagine), I added functionality to tamethebots.com/tools/fetch-... to cap text based files to 2 MB to simulate this.
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Chunked search across the developer documentation (including Search Central) - including an MCP server. Now in public preview.
The Developer Knowledge API and MCP server is now in public preview. This API includes documentation from across Google—including the Chrome DevRel sites. developers.google.com/knowledge/api
Developer Knowledge API | Google for Developers
The Developer Knowledge API and MCP server provide access to Google's developer knowledge.
developers.google.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Chunked search across the developer documentation (including Search Central) - including an MCP server. Now in public preview.
Bet they wrote it in this first
February 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Bet they wrote it in this first
"here" being the PG rated version.
console.log("why won't you ***ing work")
console.log("why won't you ***ing work")
console.log("here") is valid debugging. We don’t judge.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"here" being the PG rated version.
console.log("why won't you ***ing work")
console.log("why won't you ***ing work")
that same 2 MB limit also applies to fetched files like JavaScript & CSS, but that's not a combined 2 MB, so you could have a doc of 1 MB, a CSS of 1 MB and JavaScript file of 1 MB, and they would be fine (well, from a googlebot perspective, from a for humans, trim some weight dude!)
February 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
that same 2 MB limit also applies to fetched files like JavaScript & CSS, but that's not a combined 2 MB, so you could have a doc of 1 MB, a CSS of 1 MB and JavaScript file of 1 MB, and they would be fine (well, from a googlebot perspective, from a for humans, trim some weight dude!)
Want to check yours for peace of mind? Open devtools, and the network panel, filter by documents and hard reload the page, it's the bigger figure.
February 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Want to check yours for peace of mind? Open devtools, and the network panel, filter by documents and hard reload the page, it's the bigger figure.
So it seems the max HTML size for the initial HTML is 2 MB, not 15 MB, which sounds like a huge reduction, but in the real world 2 MB of raw HTML is a BIG, like REALLY big file. 1/2
Google clarifies Googlebots crawling limit of 15MB (old) but what is new is 2MB for other file types and 64MB for PDF documents www.seroundtable.com/googlebot-fi...
#seo #googleseo #google #googlebot
#seo #googleseo #google #googlebot
February 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
So it seems the max HTML size for the initial HTML is 2 MB, not 15 MB, which sounds like a huge reduction, but in the real world 2 MB of raw HTML is a BIG, like REALLY big file. 1/2
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From Chrome 145 (on general release next week!), DevTools we will start to show so called "soft" navigations and "Soft LCP" in the Performance Panel traces.
These are for SPAs which don't do a full page load, but instead "fake it" by updating the current page and pushing a new history entry.
1/5 🧵
These are for SPAs which don't do a full page load, but instead "fake it" by updating the current page and pushing a new history entry.
1/5 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
From Chrome 145 (on general release next week!), DevTools we will start to show so called "soft" navigations and "Soft LCP" in the Performance Panel traces.
These are for SPAs which don't do a full page load, but instead "fake it" by updating the current page and pushing a new history entry.
1/5 🧵
These are for SPAs which don't do a full page load, but instead "fake it" by updating the current page and pushing a new history entry.
1/5 🧵
I am indeed, thank you Luke!
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM
I am indeed, thank you Luke!
1* pager
* Page is a roll of wallpaper
* Page is a roll of wallpaper
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
1* pager
* Page is a roll of wallpaper
* Page is a roll of wallpaper
Is it now the brownhouse, or the outhouse?
February 2, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Is it now the brownhouse, or the outhouse?