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How to analyze Core Web Vitals with JetOctopus
Core Web Vitals is a set of specific features that Google considers important for users. The better your Core Web Vitals, the better your site is at the top in the SERP. Core Web Vitals consist of three main metrics: the largest contentful paint (LCP), first input delay (FID), and cumulative layout shift (CLS). Also, […]
Product Update. GSC by Countries
For large multinational/multilingual websites, it can be difficult to track traffic dynamics in different countries. Monitoring the performance of all countries in total is an ineffective method for SEO. Because the fall in 1% of traffic in the most traffic-generating country will be very noticeable, and in the general chart this fall will be almost […]
How to check hreflang with JetOctopus
Hreflang attributes show search engines that a website has localized versions of pages. For example, you may have English and Ukrainian versions, or separate English language versions for the United Kingdom and the United States. You can use the hreflang attributes in regular HTML, HTTP headers or sitemaps. Most hreflang problems are with the incorrect […]
How to generate a sitemap with JetOctopus and how to submit it to Google
If you find errors in crawl results or logs, you can submit the corrected/updated pages for scanning to search engines. This can be done with a custom sitemap. JetOctopus allows you to generate a custom sitemap in two clicks. In which cases do you need to generate a sitemap? For example, due to a technical […]
What if you run a crawl and your website returns the 503 response code?
Happens when you run a crawl and the website returns a 503 response code. “503 Service Unavailable” response code means that your web server cannot process the request at this time. What are the reasons for the 503 status code? There is good news: the 503 response code is temporary, and as soon as the […]
How to find redirect chains
JetOctopus can find redirect chains on your site. What is a redirect chain? This is a sequence of several redirects. For example, from URL1 to URL2, from URL2 to URL3, and so on. You can find the general information about redirect chains in the “Technical” report. Go to the crawl results and select “Technical” – […]
How to configure a crawl of your website
Before you start a new crawl we recommend preparing basic information about your website. It allows you to set up the optimal configuration of the crawl. Of course, the basic settings of JetOctopus crawl are suitable for most websites, but it is worth delving into the settings to get the most useful information about your […]
How to find URLs blocked by robots.txt
We want to have clean and accessible code on our website. Also, we want search engines to scan only pages needed in search results because we worry about our crawling budget. But sometimes there are situations when URLs in the code are blocked by the robots.txt file. It means that search engines cannot access the […]
How to find and export all images without alt attributes
The alt attribute (or alternative text) contains a description of the image. Alt will be displayed on the screen instead of the image if the user has a laggy internet connection. Of course, search engines also “read” alt attributes. Thanks to this HTML attribute, search engines understand what is depicted, and show images in search […]