How much time did it take from when we removed the noindex attribute on a web page until it was on the top of Google’s search results?
Short answer is: 32 days. If you’re lucky. Similar pages struggled more.
When Google ranked the wrong page
We used to have strict rules on which pages we allowed to be indexed. These have now been liberalised, but with some unexpected restrictions. One such quirk appeared on our search page for boats, where we didn’t allow indexing when the search was filtered by a boat type, but not also for brand. That meant that if you were googling “watercraft”, you would find a list of vessels from a random brand, not the list of all watercraft, as you would expect.
What is inclusive food?
I’ve been working a lot with universal design in web development, also known as inclusive design. And in my spare time I’ve always loved to play around in the kitchen. One thing that has been a challenge to my cooking is that my wife is intolerant to eggs, milk and gluten, and I have twisted my mind to make food that she can eat and I find interesting. So I thought, is there a term called inclusive food? Food that anyone can eat?
Ingredients to avoid
To cook for my wife I must stick to pure meats and vegetables, and avoid wheat. But…
You are not a technical person, but you’ve been given the task of having a website built by a vendor. You have of course specified that the website must be accessible - but how do you know if what you receive truly is?
Whoops accessibility
The Norwegian Parliament has unanimously adopted that all websites must be accessible for anyone to use. Prior to the election in 2017, the Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, in Norway known as Difi, ran an accessibility test on all the political parties’ websites to check whether they stood by their own requirements. …
Today is Women’s Day, and what better time to toast those women who have made a smart and nontraditional career choice — that of the professional programmer.
In our profession, women have sadly become quite a rarity. They are already underrepresented in enrolment for programming education, and many women I studied with changed focus during the course of their studies. Luckily this trend has improved. There are increasingly more girls both enrolled and finishing studies in programming. When women in tech are being praised, the focus is usually on those who enter leading positions. Therefore this post will focus on…
We begin every new year by looking over the old one. This article will look over which devices and softwares people used on FINN.no in 2018. Nearly everyone in Norway is using either our web-site or our native apps, so our data reflects what the population is using.
Desktop, tablet or mobile phone?
So let’s start by looking at the devices people were using on FINN, regardless of whether they used our native apps or visited www.finn.no with a browser.
How do we know that our web site actually works the way we want? We use web analytics. Web analytics tells us not just how many users we have, but also how they behave; if they use the site the way we expect, if any pages seems hard to use, and if the changes we make actually makes it better. I wanted to use web analytics to see if the site also works for people who use assistive technologies. That turned out to be harder than expected. Why?
This article is about the possibilities and concerns about using web analytics…
