google Archives - Nick Harris

Score Doesn’t Matter – How to Sanity-Check Your GTMetrix Report

November 8, 2019August 5, 2021Nicholas Harris

I commonly see people running a site speed test through GTMetrix or Google PageSpeed Insights and panic when they receive a “bad” score. However, in most cases, the score does not directly relate to how quickly your website actually loads. A great example of this can be seen with the following two sites (site URLs…Read More

Fix Excluded Posts on Search Console Coverage

September 12, 2019February 5, 2020Nicholas Harris

As of now, my website has ~2,610 pages listed as “Excluded” in my Google Search Console. Excluded pages will not show up in Google search results, and are ignored by Google’s indexing robot. Why are these posts being excluded? Google actually gives the reason, and it’s not your fault – nor is it a bad…Read More