Eagle-eyed RapidSpike users will have noticed a big update to the app went live recently, with a major improvement to our Page Overview dashboard . Going back to September 2020, when we launched “RapidSpike Version 2” , we had great plans for the Page Overview – but they never quite materialised. Team efforts were focussed elsewhere and we did little to improve the old Page Overview or the data we displayed.
Website Monitoring is a broad phrase used to describe the way web teams measure website reliability, performance and security. In today’s increasingly fast-paced world, website monitoring is becoming much more than that. Businesses have been driven online by socio-economic issues like reductions in retail footfall and, most recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Websites are critical.
Football may be coming home, but will England’s Google Lighthouse Scores? Where were you in ’96? Euro 2020 is here, and so are our hopes that the Three Lions’ long wait for a European Championship could soon be over. England has had one of, if not the best set of, national football matches for decades. Winning 6 games in a row with only 1 goal conceded, how can Italy beat us?
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it… or so the saying goes. But at RapidSpike that just doesn’t cut the innovative mustard, so we’ve redesigned our website, overhauled our branding and done it all with the intention of highlighting the core functionality behind the RapidSpike site for the customer’s benefit. Here’s what we did and why.
Yesterday, we watched a nail-biting finish at the Tro Bro Léon cycling race in France. It was head to head for the finish between Pier Allegaert and local Yorkshireman Connor Swift. The time difference between Allegaert and Swift was milliseconds. That’s right, less than a second after 207km of racing!!! It was so close that even the race officials had to study the photo finish to determine the winner, after the tightest of sprints!
“Well it works on my machine.” – The age-old catchphrase that developers used when the tester found an intermittent defect, today it’s often used when people run a Google Lighthouse test on their machine and it ends up showing wildly different results to what is being reported by the team.
From May 2021, Google is using ‘Core Web Vitals’ as a brand new ranking signal. Google states that business owners should monitor and improve their scores to avoid damaging their organic SEO. In this blog, we will explain how to improve Core Web Vitals scores. To discover the specific issues affecting your users’ experience, we strongly advise having a Core Web Vitals audit.
Core Web Vitals are a new set of performance metrics that will become part of Google’s ranking algorithm from May 2021. In this blog, we explain how to measure Core Web Vitals scores. There are many ways website owners can find out their Core Web Vitals scores. This includes: PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, Chrome UX Report, and the Web Vitals Extension.
From 1st May 2021, Google will start judging your website based on a new set of performance metrics called Core Web Vitals. This initiative is focused around user experience and will become part of Google’s ranking algorithm. Failing them is bad, getting them right is a huge opportunity. Only 23% of businesses currently pass these tests consistently, so organic SEO will be negatively impacted for the large majority of companies.
When a website is compromised to steal credit card information, a link to a malicious JavaScript file is normally inserted into the website’s code. This file then loads what is called the skimmer, the code responsible for skimming personal and financial details from customers.
