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Some items I've found interesting recently.

As one of my articles is the number one result for a search term Google has extracted the relevant information into a featured snippet. I was updating the data and used it as an opportunity to see how quickly Google would update the snippet.

In my review of the effect of HTTP2 on performance I mentioned that the result wasn't statistically significant. Jim Newbery looked at the numbers and said that the result did fit the criteria for statistical significance. He was correct and I had got my sums wrong but in checking my work I found something else.

A recent upgrade to my hosting enabled HTTP2 so I took the opportunity to see how this change affected performance of my site.

Some technology related items I've read and favourited in Pocket recently.

The new - and long overdue - Google Webmaster Tools console features the one report we really wanted but didn't have: the index status of pages on a site. Previously it's been possible to piece together a reasonable assessment of this data by a process that essentially amounted to divination but now we have access to data.

I've been taking Dotcom-Monitor's BrowserView for a spin recently, it's the front end performance component of a wider suite of monitoring tools.

If you had to choose one metric to focus on when improving the performance of your web pages then it would be speed index. However, it's important to understand that it is fundamentally a subjective measurement so in order to use it effectively you need to understand the consequences of this for alerting.

Some items I've found interesting related to the Facebook news feed changes last week.

As the technology of media delivery has changed so have my consumption habits. Often this is a natural evolution over time but sometimes I need to make planned changes - as with long form reading.