As a front-end developer, I am often working on client websites to optimise their SEO. This week, I applied some of these strategies to my develope...
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I love that my portfolio has a 90 score on Lighthouse because I have a robots.txt file that disallows crawlers. My SEO would be great if I allowed search engines :P That should be an automatic 0 not a 10 point ding.
Good point, I did not include a
robot.txtfile in my project so I didn't mention this in the article. I could not find any reference about the Lighthouse score being impacted by the presence of arobot.txtfile, just some recommendations about fixing invalid syntax in the file. Source here.My specific result is is crawlable which I misremembered since it cares more about
noindexthan therobots.txt(I really don't care to have my name on search results). But the gist was right where since the page can't be indexed, I lost 10 points. But since it can't be indexed, the rest of the idea of being "Search Engine Optimized" is silly. I like having a perfect 90 moreso for accessibility since good SEO tends to mean an optimized site for assistive tech.I actually made a video covering this, but it basically turned into a joke when I realized that Google doesn't follow their own rules and most of their sites score horribly on their own tests
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I am new to SEO and this was tremendously helpful!
Thank you so much, John!
Great tips! Love how the web is getting more and more about speed and optimising these days.
Thank you so much! Lighthouse is a great tool to know exactly what to do to improve both of these :)
Nice portfolio, also played Rock, paper, scissors a bit 😂😂
Thank you so much! Rock, paper, scissors... it never gets old! 😂
Not new to me but that is really helpfull.
Good tips here I think that SEO sometimes gets left till last or forgotten by some developers.
Cool tips I would like to get a 100 across the board on lighthouse for my website one day. FYI you can add syntax highlighting to your code blocks when you post.
I am new to SEO and had never heard of Lighthouse until now. This was very helpful!