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Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs

Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs

In Search Console, the Performance report currently credits all page metrics to the exact URL that the user is referred to by Google Search. Although this provides very specific data, it makes property management more difficult; for example: if your site has mobile and desktop versions on different properties, you must open multiple properties to […]

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First Public Working Draft: WebXR Device API

First Public Working Draft: WebXR Device API

The Immersive Web Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the WebXR Device API. This specification describes support for accessing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices, including sensors and head-mounted displays, on the Web. Hardware that enables Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications are now broadly available to […]

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Working Group Note: Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching

The Internationalization Working Group has published a new Working Group Note: Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching which provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability. String identity matching is the process by which a […]

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W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Values and Units Module Level 3; CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1

The CSS Working Group invites implementations of two Candidate Recommendations published today: CSS Values and Units Module Level 3, which module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions. CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1, which module contains features to control panning […]

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Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron

Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron

Many frontend frameworks rely on JavaScript to show content. This can mean Google might take some time to index your content or update the indexed content.  A workaround we discussed at Google I/O this year is dynamic rendering. There are many ways to implement this. This blog post shows an example implementation of dynamic rendering […]

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Focusing on the new Search Console

Over the last year, the new Search Console has been growing and growing, with the goal of making it easier for site owners to focus on the important tasks. For us, focus means being able to put in all our work into the new Search Console, being committed to the users, and with that, being […]

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Ways to succeed in Google News

With the New Year now underway, we’d like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead publishers to more success within Google News in 2019. General advice There is a lot of helpful information to consider within the Google News Publisher Help Center. Be sure to have read the material in this […]

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Call for Review: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

The Web Authentication Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1. This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users. Conceptually, one or more public key […]

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An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments

For every train there’s a passenger, but it turns out comments are not our train. Over the years we read thousands of comments we’ve received on our blog posts on the Google Webmaster Central blog. Sometimes they were extremely thoughtful, other times they made us laugh out loud, but most of the time they were […]

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Call for Review: User Timing Level 2 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of User Timing Level 2. This specification defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps. Comments are welcome through 7 February 2019. Source: W3C News Feed

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