Today on Google’s home page on most Google.com home pages is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the South African trumpeter – Hugh Masekela. He was born on April 4, 1939 in Witbank and passed at the age of 78 on January 23, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Google says sites are faster and abandonment rates are down since making page speed a ranking factor last year. The post Google: The Web is Faster Since Page Speed Became a Ranking Factor by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has posted on their webmaster blog that the results of announcing and launching a new algorithmic ranking factor – the Speed Update, resulted in an overall faster web. Google said they “observed improvements on many pages across the web” in terms of speed of slower sites.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

I got to say that these videos from Martin Splitt of Google are now above my head. He is getting into the details around how React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, and how to make web apps and sites using that framework search engine friendly

Google is once again testing a new user interface for the image search preview image window.

Make sure it’s clear to Google which page is your Page One – and don’t sweat the legacy code.

The call-to-action prompts support scheduling and tracking parameters. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The technology appears to be ready for prime time as Google readies machine-based booking for categories beyond restaurants. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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