Technical SEO, split-testing, local search and algorithm analysis from independent practitioners and specialist agencies — SearchPilot, Lumar, Sistrix, Sterling Sky, Marie Haynes and others.
Impact is an automatic estimate of how much a story is likely to
affect one website, weighing who published it, whether Google has
confirmed a ranking change, how many outlets ran it, and whether
the wording implies work on your site. It reads headlines, not
your analytics — treat it as triage, not a verdict.
As SEOs, we obsess over performance. Speed. Crawl efficiency. Core Web Vitals. Conversions. But we rarely talk about the environmental cost of what we ship. The internet now accounts for roughly 4%…