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A talk about the most significant change to search since the launch of Google and why/how we should be prepared.
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A MOBILE-FIRST GOOGLE INDEX
Most significant change to search landscape since the launch of Google
When? “…we’ll ramp up this change when we’re confident that we have a great user experience.” Webmaster Central: Nov. 16
Mobile Phone 72%
68% Mobile & Tablet
WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT FOR MOBILE?
of searches in the Google App are by voice Source: Think with Google May 16
“Near me” searches +3,400% since 2011 Source: Google
Nail Salon near me…
Restaurant nearme…
…of those (near me) searches occur on mobile phones. Source: Google
High ‘ROPO’ intent
RESTAURANTS NEAR ME
WHAT’S ON AT THE CINEMA
WHERE IS WAITROSE BASINGSTOKE
• I get the answer “in-SERP” • Location known & inherent in answer • Entity recognition Source: Google
Structured Data
DATA PROCESSED DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY BY MACHINES Tim Berners-Lee
• JSON-LD • Microdata • RDFa Source: Google
All the structured data!
4.6 star rating Serves 2 Takes 35 minutes
• Keep pages simple and succinct • Mark-up ALL THE THINGS!!! • Including geo-location Source: Google
FAST IS THE ONLY SPEED
ABANDONMENT RATE page Speed 3G 19 Seconds Average Load Time >3 Seconds 53% Abandonment Rate Source: Google /DoubleClick
• HTTP/2 on (HTTPs) • Image optimisation • RAIL Source: Google
HTTP/2 reduce latency minimise protocol overhead request prioritisation
HTTP/1.1 Head of line – resources HTTP/2 Parallelised resources Priority queue – ‘educated’ guess Prioritised by type & context Queue held on client Browser to server Keep-alive – stated Keep-alive enabled default
Image Optimisation
• Compress to reduce size • Avoid images that add nothing to narrative • Consider WebP – 26% smaller Source: Google
YouTube: up to 10% reduction in page load time. Source: Chromium Blog
PERFORMANCE MODEL HTTP/2 Google Developers
RAIL Response Guideline <100ms Animation 10ms/frame Idle • Use to complete deferred work • Keep pre-load to minimum <1000ms Load
THE NEAR FUTURE IS BATTERY POWERED
• Keep pages simple and succinct • Mark-up ALL THE THINGS!!! • Including geo-location
Bounce 9.6% higher DoubleClick: SEPT 2016
- Clear title - Site functional tools in top third - Primary purpose in Prime Real Estate - Progression hint
- - - Page title obfuscated functional tools top and bottom Pointless brand cred. in Prime Real Estate Purpose content nowhere to be seen Progression hint: sort what? - -
UX/Purpose scoring system
WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT FOR MOBILE?
USE SEMANTIC MARK-UP FOR STRUCTURED DATA
FAST IS THE ONLY SPEED
DESIGN WITH PURPOSE