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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Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.
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Chrome Canary now supports network throttling for individual request URLs!
Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...
Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...
How To Throttle Specific Requests In Chrome DevTools | DebugBear
Learn how to delay individual requests in Chrome DevTools. Debug performance issues or bugs that happen when specific resources are delayed.
www.debugbear.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Chrome Canary now supports network throttling for individual request URLs!
Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...
Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...
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A high saturation thumbnail of a man, with completely white teeth and slightly larger than human eyes pointing at a computer while making a shh gesture.
Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing.
NEW POST
ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c...
NEW POST
Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing.
NEW POST
ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c...
NEW POST
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A high saturation thumbnail of a man, with completely white teeth and slightly larger than human eyes pointing at a computer while making a shh gesture.
Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing.
NEW POST
ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c...
NEW POST
Although his eyes read excitement, you know that the spark has gone. You sense regret and longing.
NEW POST
ohgm.co.uk/should-you-c...
NEW POST
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Okay, heads up to those who are interested - Search Central Live is coming to Zurich again On December 9!
I'm finishing up the agenda and everything, but you can take a peek here:
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/scl-z...
I'm finishing up the agenda and everything, but you can take a peek here:
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/scl-z...
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, heads up to those who are interested - Search Central Live is coming to Zurich again On December 9!
I'm finishing up the agenda and everything, but you can take a peek here:
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/scl-z...
I'm finishing up the agenda and everything, but you can take a peek here:
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/scl-z...
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If you're using a cloud provider to host images / videos / other content, you can and should verify the host in Search Console, so that you're aware of potential issues that affect Google's crawling & indexing, & Safe Browsing. Use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS. More: (1/n)
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If you're using a cloud provider to host images / videos / other content, you can and should verify the host in Search Console, so that you're aware of potential issues that affect Google's crawling & indexing, & Safe Browsing. Use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS. More: (1/n)
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Our 100th podcast episode is out! open.spotify.com/episode/3yrt...
This one is a bit sillier than the others, but I liked to poke people about their favorite moments in the past episodes... what's your favorite moment?
This one is a bit sillier than the others, but I liked to poke people about their favorite moments in the past episodes... what's your favorite moment?
How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development
open.spotify.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Our 100th podcast episode is out! open.spotify.com/episode/3yrt...
This one is a bit sillier than the others, but I liked to poke people about their favorite moments in the past episodes... what's your favorite moment?
This one is a bit sillier than the others, but I liked to poke people about their favorite moments in the past episodes... what's your favorite moment?
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Josh @farrant.me's site has a lovely theme-switcher... that plays music! farrant.me
Home — Josh Farrant
The homepage of Josh Farrant's weblog
farrant.me
October 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Josh @farrant.me's site has a lovely theme-switcher... that plays music! farrant.me
This is a neat feature, and excellent for a quick overview.
It's also handy to point folks who are a bit less savvy with the performance report, or have less time / interest in the nitty gritty and want some more high level overview stuff.
developers.google.com/search/blog/...
It's also handy to point folks who are a bit less savvy with the performance report, or have less time / interest in the nitty gritty and want some more high level overview stuff.
developers.google.com/search/blog/...
Introducing Query groups in Search Console Insights | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
developers.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a neat feature, and excellent for a quick overview.
It's also handy to point folks who are a bit less savvy with the performance report, or have less time / interest in the nitty gritty and want some more high level overview stuff.
developers.google.com/search/blog/...
It's also handy to point folks who are a bit less savvy with the performance report, or have less time / interest in the nitty gritty and want some more high level overview stuff.
developers.google.com/search/blog/...
An invaluable summary and resource!
We deserve AI transparency. This summary of the ChatGPT Atlas system prompt leak uses Gemini 2.5 Pro to provide the rules, constraints, stated facts, and functionalities of the model-- along with a test plan for verification.
not-a-robot.com/blog/atlas-s...
not-a-robot.com/blog/atlas-s...
ChatGPT Atlas system prompt leak summary - based on CL4R1T4S repo
We deserve AI transparency. This summary of the ChatGPT Atlas system prompt leak uses Gemini 2.5 Pro to present the rules, constraints, stated facts, and functionalities of the model —along with a te...
not-a-robot.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
An invaluable summary and resource!
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I am sure this will be hugely unpopular with a lot of people; but I think AI prompt visibility tracking is generally a big and expensive waste of time. 🤷♂️
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I am sure this will be hugely unpopular with a lot of people; but I think AI prompt visibility tracking is generally a big and expensive waste of time. 🤷♂️
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All I want for my birthday is to hit 2K signups for my salty rants. I promise to bring receipts 🎂🥺
moz.com/webinars/dar...
moz.com/webinars/dar...
The Practical Marketer Webinar - SEO Hot Topics for 2025
Join Chima Mmeje and guest Jamie Indigo for a Hallowen special edition where we'll go behind the scenes to uncover the dark side of AI SEOs need to know about and how to use the AI search index to opt...
moz.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
All I want for my birthday is to hit 2K signups for my salty rants. I promise to bring receipts 🎂🥺
moz.com/webinars/dar...
moz.com/webinars/dar...
data-nosnippet gets Bing support.
Interesting suggested use cases in that announcement post
Interesting suggested use cases in that announcement post
Bing Introduces Support for the data-nosnippet HTML Attribute
Take control of how your content appears in Bing Search and AI answers. The new data-nosnippet HTML attribute lets you hide selected sections such as paywalled, promotional, or experimental content wi...
blogs.bing.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
data-nosnippet gets Bing support.
Interesting suggested use cases in that announcement post
Interesting suggested use cases in that announcement post
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Largest Contentful Paint (from Core Web Vitals) is now available in Safari Technology Preview.
webkit.org/blog/17504/r...
webkit.org/blog/17504/r...
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 230
Safari Technology Preview Release 230 is now available for download for macOS Tahoe and macOS Sequoia.
webkit.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Largest Contentful Paint (from Core Web Vitals) is now available in Safari Technology Preview.
webkit.org/blog/17504/r...
webkit.org/blog/17504/r...
Oh good, the spammers have found sharing Google sheets as a way to sell their shitty links again. Sigh
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Oh good, the spammers have found sharing Google sheets as a way to sell their shitty links again. Sigh
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Nerdy stuff! @mozilla.org #Firefox just enabled support for #INP with v144 🎉
I dived into our raw RUMvision data. And yep, can confirm that it works when using Google's web-vitals #JavaScript library 😍
(updated) article + chart + baseline badges in a blogpost:
www.rumvision.com/blog/firefox...
I dived into our raw RUMvision data. And yep, can confirm that it works when using Google's web-vitals #JavaScript library 😍
(updated) article + chart + baseline badges in a blogpost:
www.rumvision.com/blog/firefox...
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Nerdy stuff! @mozilla.org #Firefox just enabled support for #INP with v144 🎉
I dived into our raw RUMvision data. And yep, can confirm that it works when using Google's web-vitals #JavaScript library 😍
(updated) article + chart + baseline badges in a blogpost:
www.rumvision.com/blog/firefox...
I dived into our raw RUMvision data. And yep, can confirm that it works when using Google's web-vitals #JavaScript library 😍
(updated) article + chart + baseline badges in a blogpost:
www.rumvision.com/blog/firefox...
This now supports both the CrUX API and the CrUX History API, so you can now ask questions like
"What are the CWV trends like for example.com on desktop and mobile, across the whole site?"
"What are the CWV trends like for example.com on desktop and mobile, across the whole site?"
MCP Server fever! Following on from the robots.txt MCP server release of yesterday, today I've launched one for you web perf fans!
Query the CrUX API in your favorite AI tool
Example: youtu.be/et7Og7_Ii6E?...
Get the details here: tamethebots.com/tools/cwv-hi...
#WebPerf #CWV #CoreWebVitals
Query the CrUX API in your favorite AI tool
Example: youtu.be/et7Og7_Ii6E?...
Get the details here: tamethebots.com/tools/cwv-hi...
#WebPerf #CWV #CoreWebVitals
Using the Tame The Bots CrUX API MCP Server
YouTube video by Dave Smart
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This now supports both the CrUX API and the CrUX History API, so you can now ask questions like
"What are the CWV trends like for example.com on desktop and mobile, across the whole site?"
"What are the CWV trends like for example.com on desktop and mobile, across the whole site?"
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It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
JavaScript for Everyone
A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
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🎉 Announcing the #SEOFOMO x @similarwebinsights.bsky.social London Free Meetup on November 20, from 6pm to 9pm 🔥
Featuring 3 SEO panels, there will also be free drinks, food, giveaways, and super fun networking 💪😎
Register now for free: www.eventbrite.es/e/seofomo-x-...
Featuring 3 SEO panels, there will also be free drinks, food, giveaways, and super fun networking 💪😎
Register now for free: www.eventbrite.es/e/seofomo-x-...
October 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🎉 Announcing the #SEOFOMO x @similarwebinsights.bsky.social London Free Meetup on November 20, from 6pm to 9pm 🔥
Featuring 3 SEO panels, there will also be free drinks, food, giveaways, and super fun networking 💪😎
Register now for free: www.eventbrite.es/e/seofomo-x-...
Featuring 3 SEO panels, there will also be free drinks, food, giveaways, and super fun networking 💪😎
Register now for free: www.eventbrite.es/e/seofomo-x-...
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Re-up for the evening crowd: uncovered some weird grok behaviour, found some weird keywords, none of it makes sense. chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...
October 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Re-up for the evening crowd: uncovered some weird grok behaviour, found some weird keywords, none of it makes sense. chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-de...
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Lighthouse 13 has been released and includes the final move to Insights performance audits as announced previously.
developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...
developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...
What's new in Lighthouse 13 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Lighthouse 13 is here with the move to Insights audits
developer.chrome.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Lighthouse 13 has been released and includes the final move to Insights performance audits as announced previously.
developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...
developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...
This is a neat history of cwv from @addyosmani.bsky.social addyosmani.com/blog/core-we...
The History of Core Web Vitals
This write-up is a history of how Core Web Vitals came to be based on my recollections from our work on it at Google from 2014 onwards
addyosmani.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is a neat history of cwv from @addyosmani.bsky.social addyosmani.com/blog/core-we...
The pull signs, and total lack of handles lead me to believe this is an area only accessible to those with sticky hands.
I think I have found the secret Spiderman society HQ
I think I have found the secret Spiderman society HQ
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The pull signs, and total lack of handles lead me to believe this is an area only accessible to those with sticky hands.
I think I have found the secret Spiderman society HQ
I think I have found the secret Spiderman society HQ
It would have been rude not to, after all. What's the saying? "when in Rome, be in Dublin and have a pint of Guinness."
Something like that anyway.
Something like that anyway.
October 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It would have been rude not to, after all. What's the saying? "when in Rome, be in Dublin and have a pint of Guinness."
Something like that anyway.
Something like that anyway.
My startup GoonPass™ which uses your device's camera to not only determine your age but how horny you are, thereby directing you to the appropriate level of smut, will be secure, because everyone will be too sweaty to recognise IRL.
The first "UK Porn Block" / "Child Safety" data breach is out.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked
I knew it would be quick, but not that quick.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked
I knew it would be quick, but not that quick.
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
My startup GoonPass™ which uses your device's camera to not only determine your age but how horny you are, thereby directing you to the appropriate level of smut, will be secure, because everyone will be too sweaty to recognise IRL.