Hey Hikers! I’m excited to tell you that we’ve recently rolled out a variety of new action types within Hike. These new actions are slightly more technical than usual, and so I wanted to give you a quick breakdown in this email (doesn’t make much sense to record a video this month!). Over the upcoming weeks you’ll start seeing the following action types appear in your monthly SEO action list:
Images 🖼️
Images can often be the cause of speed and crawling issues. We’re rolling out two new actions based around images on your website and their impact on your SEO:
- Images that are too large – any images that could be optimized further for quicker loading speeds
- Broken images – any images that aren’t loading correctly
Page Size + Headings 📏
To ensure your pages aren’t too big, and that you’re reducing duplicate content, we’re rolling out these two actions:
- Page size is too large – any pages that–when you combine the size of all the page elements (eg images, JS, CSS, HTML, etc)–are very large and likely slow-loading
- Duplicate H2 headings on same page – any pages that contain identical H2 headings more than once
CSS and JS Files 📁
CSS and JS (Javascript) files are incredibly important in ensuring that a page loads and all it’s content is indexable. That’s why we’re rolling out these two action types:
- CSS/JS files that are broken – broken files will prevent Google from indexing all the page’s content
- CSS/JS files that are too large – files that are too large will often be slow-loading
HTTPS/HTTP Issues 🔐
Is your website hosted on HTTPS? You may still have files that trying to load over HTTP and possibly causing security issues. These three new actions will help to identify this:
- HTTPS page links to HTTP CSS file – links to CSS files on the page that load over an insecure HTTP connection
- HTTPS page links to HTTP JS file – links to JS files on the page that load over an insecure HTTP connection
- HTTPS page links to HTTP image file – links to images on the page that load over an insecure HTTP connection
Coming Soon 👀
I wanted to give you a quick update on the upcoming new features, and how they’re progressing:
- Report builder – this one’s going well. We’re now testing this internally and feeding back for refinements and bug fixes
- Payment platform for resellers – before we could really test this, we needed to build a whole new email sending system. That’s now ready for testing internally, and the devs will move back onto the Stripe integration soon
- Moving the SEO report tool into Hike – this one’s close to launch, so keep an eye out over the next few weeks!
That’s it for this month, please give us a shout if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Andy, Hike Co-founder
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