Experiments

Page Speed: 6 Small Images vs. 1 Large Image

by SEO mofo Apr 12th, 2010 Experiments

This experiment compares the page load times of two different versions of social media widgets: one that uses 6 images vs. one that uses 1 image.

What is the Maximum Character Length for a URL that Google Will Index?

by SEO mofo Feb 23rd, 2010 Experiments

This experiment tries to find an answer to the question of how many characters long a URL can be and still get crawled and indexed by Google.

WordPress Comments Slow Down Page Speed

by SEO mofo Feb 1st, 2010 AntiSocial Media
WordPress Comments Slow Down Page Speed

Enabling comments and custom Gravatars on your WordPress blog can encourage visitors to participate, but it also negatively impacts your page speed.

Google Turned My Plain Text URL Into a Link

by SEO mofo Dec 8th, 2009 Experiments
Google Turned My Plain Text URL Into a Link

I found at least one example of Google treating a text URL like a link. However, what I found is not an intentional use of text URLs as a ranking signal.