What we find when we look at websites.
Original reporting on web performance, AI visibility, accessibility and site health.
The robots.txt fix for blocking AI training without losing search
Cloudflare's newest crawler setting solves a false choice, block AI training or stay visible in AI search. Google and OpenAI already let any site do the same, free.
A donation plugin with 100,000+ installs had a perfect-10 flaw
A GiveWP flaw let anyone run commands on a donation site with no login. The vendor patched it fast. The gap that matters now is how fast each site updates.
Website audit tools, compared: how fast you reach a first report
Ahrefs and SE Ranking gate a first audit behind an account. Go Voltic and Semrush's free checker don't. Observed on all four providers' public pages, 2026-09-02.
Visitors trusted AI hero images as much as real stock photos
A blind study of 77 U.S. adults found AI-generated hero images scored as well as real stock photos on trust and professionalism, and slightly higher on authenticity.
A 41-day test found AI crawlers never follow a JavaScript-only link
A 41-day crawler study found GPTBot, ClaudeBot and six other AI crawlers never followed a single JavaScript-only link. Googlebot barely did either.
Most home pages still have no way to skip the navigation
A keyboard-only visitor has to tab past your entire menu before reaching the page you built. Most sites still make them do it, and the fix takes minutes.
The four lines that decide whether Google can show your page
Four directives decide whether a page can appear in search. Three of them are invisible while you read the page.