Google confirmed final week that it’s engaged on a repair with SXG, signed exchanges, and never working appropriately in search. Particularly, Google serves them in Google Search as regular HTML pages, not as signed exchanges. Google’s John Mueller mentioned this isn’t inflicting any points with visitors from Google Search to SXG however fairly, Google shouldn’t be pre-fetching, caching, and serving these pages quicker than a standard HTML web page.
This primary was reported through Richard Hearne after which Omer Rachamim confirmed the difficulty on his finish too:
Any information on this one? I am experiencing the identical factor. Nothing comes up on numerous assessments – it appears Google is not pre-fetching SXG outcomes.
— Omer Rachamim (@Omerach) December 21, 2022
John Mueller of Google then confirmed the difficulty saying “this can be a recognized bug and we’re engaged on rolling out a repair (probably after the vacations although); within the meantime you don’t want to fret – your webpages will nonetheless present up on Search usually as in the event that they had been non-SXG.”
I discovered extra — this can be a recognized bug and we’re engaged on rolling out a repair (probably after the vacations although); within the meantime you don’t want to fret – your webpages will nonetheless present up on Search usually as in the event that they had been non-SXG.
— John Mueller is generally not right here 🐀 (@JohnMu) December 22, 2022
Some reported visitors drops however possibly that isn’t the case, possibly it’s simply how the reporting works? Omer mentioned he didn’t discover any visitors points:
From my drilldown I can affirm the hyperlinks are displaying and getting clicks. We recognized the bug once we investigated the hyperlinks and noticed they result in common html and never sxg, like John mentioned
— Omer Rachamim (@Omerach) December 23, 2022
Earlier this 12 months, Google Search introduced signed exchanges help to desktop – it went dwell in July. Signed exchanges (SXG) permit Google Search to prefetch your content material whereas preserving the person’s privateness. In apply, which means each AMP and non-AMP outcomes proven on Google Search could prefetch a number of key assets (similar to HTML, JavaScript, CSS, pictures, or fonts) in a privacy-preserving method, if the related web site helps SXG.
A small correction – the web page that is being served is the common HTML, not the SXG copy of the HTML.
— Omer Rachamim (@Omerach) December 26, 2022
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